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Opening the Trinity: developing the "open theism" debate

open access: yesActa Theologica, 2005
The reconciliation of the omniscience of God with the free choices of humanity is a problem which has taxed Christian thinkers for centuries. Recently the issue has become prominent with the emergence of support for "open theism", the belief that free ...
D. T. Williams
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The Symbolistic Christology in Frantz Fanon's Existentialist Thought

open access: yesDialog, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 109-118, Summer 2025.
ABSTRACT This article attempts to answer a provocative question: Can existentialist thought provide insights into the nature of Christ? Specifically, what might we learn about Christ from existentialist such as Frantz Fanon, even if only implicitly? In offering a response to the question, I propose a symbolistic Christology through an examination of ...
Chammah J. Kaunda
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Public role of the church in anti-corruption: An assessment of the CCAP1 Livingstonia Synod in Malawi from a kenōsis perspective

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2018
Corruption, which is a persistent feature in human societies throughout time and space, affects not only the administration of the state but also every societal organ including the church. The ‘virus of corruption’ has penetrated into functioning systems
Qeko Jere
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Hindu Avatāra and Christian Kenosis: A New Approach in Comparative Theology1

open access: yesThe Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 3, Page 223-237, May 2025.
Abstract Within comparative theology, the Hindu doctrine of avatāra has traditionally been compared to the Christian doctrine of the incarnation, both of which are expressions of divine embodiment in creaturely form. This article, however, contrasts the doctrine of avatāra with a reading of the incarnation that frames the latter within the broader ...
Christian J. Ivandić
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THE DIVINE SPIRIT AS CAUSAL AND PERSONAL

open access: yesZygon, 2013
Theists in general and Christians in particular have good grounds for affirming divine action in relation to twenty‐first‐century science. Although humans cannot perceive with their five senses the causation—both divine and creaturely—at work in our ...
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Kenosis como caminho para a construção da paz = Kenosis as a way to build peace = Kénosis como forma de construir la paz

open access: yesTeocomunicação, 2021
A crescente escalada de violência no Oriente Médio, a perseguição às minorias étnicas na África e no sul asiático chamam atenção para o recrudescimento do fundamentalismo em diversas partes do mundo.
Pinto, Raphael Colvara
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SUPERAR LA HYBRIS DEL HUMANISMO. TESIS PARA UN POSTHUMANISMO DE LA KÉNOSIS DESPUÉS DE HEIDEGGER [PDF]

open access: yesKriterion, 2018
RESUMEN Frente a la hybris de la subjetividad que culmina en el proyecto moderno-humanista, surge la necesidad de pensar de otra manera la esencia del hombre ya sin el lastre de toda la tradición filosófica occidental.
José Manuel Chillón Lorenzo
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KENOSIS Towards A New Theology Of Science

open access: yesPensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2015
The «theology of science» which, in our opinion, brings us the image of the universe, life and man in contemporary science has its fundamental axis on the concept of «epistemological kenosis». This means that God, in the event that he is real and exists,
Javier Monserrat
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Loving and Letting: A Constructive Reading of Genesis 1

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 148-165, April 2025.
Abstract This essay evaluates possible meanings of God's creative ‘let’ in Genesis 1 in order to evaluate how God's generative love of creation forms a paradigm for human love. Beginning with the work of philosopher John Haugeland, who gives four possible meanings of letting‐be in his reading of Heidegger, this essay argues that creation is best ...
J. W. Olson
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Participation in Christ and Divine and Human Righteousness: Reading Paul with Gregory of Nyssa

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 166-192, April 2025.
Abstract Participation in Christ and divine and human righteousness are vital, yet perennially debated, Pauline motifs. Arguably, what is most distinctive and crucial about ‘righteousness’ in Paul's epistles is its christological re‐definition in texts such as 1 Cor 1:30.
Joshua Heavin
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