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THE DIVINE SPIRIT AS CAUSAL AND PERSONAL

Zygon, 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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The Quest for the Causal Joint [PDF]

, 2012
This study is an examination of three proposals for a \"causal joint\" model of God\'s action in the world. Adapting the thought of Austin Farrer and David Burrell, the author seeks to show how these hypotheses are theologically flawed.
Doran, Chris
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Loving and Letting: A Constructive Reading of Genesis 1

International 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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Providence

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2022
Though not linguistically prominent in Christian scripture, the theology of providence captures several recurring scriptural themes. These include the order of the cosmos, the wisdom reflected in the natural and social worlds, the direction of the ...
David Fergusson
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Imago Dei identity as embodied in the incarnation: Kenosis as a catalyst towards identity formation

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2020
This article is a study of Philippians 2, verses 5 through 11, and reflects on Paul’s presentation of Christ in his incarnation as the identity which fully embodies the imago Dei.
Walter P. Maqoma
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The Death of Tragedy: The Form of God in Paul’s \u3cem\u3eCarmen Christi\u3c/em\u3e and Euripides’ Bacchae [PDF]

, 2018
Scholarship on Phil 2:6–11 has long wrestled with the question of “interpretive staging.” While acknowledging that Jewish sapiential and apocalyptic literature as well as Roman apotheosis narratives provide important matrices for the hymn, the following ...
Cover, Michael
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Participation in Christ and Divine and Human Righteousness: Reading Paul with Gregory of Nyssa

International 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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The secularizing nature of Christian choice for images

Aisthesis
Daniele Guastini’s book Immagini cristiane e cultura antica is one of the most significant contributions to the current debate on the role of Christian images. The choice of images made by Christianity since the third century – this is the main thesis of
Graziano Lingua
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Care in Times of Crisis: Phenomenological, Political and Theological Perspectives

Dialog, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 36-44, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT The threat of increasingly adverse existential conditions has prompted activist groups like Extinction Rebellion to enact civil disobedience. In this article, this sort of behavior is interpreted as a message about not only what they care about, but about what they think their surroundings ought to care about.
Anders Skou Jørgensen
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Natural Religion [PDF]

, 2007
IS NATURE ENOUGH? TRUTH AND MEANING IN THE AGE OF SCIENCE by JOHN F. HAUGHT Cambridge University Press, 232 pages, $19.99 JOHN HAUGHT ASKS, "IS nature enough?"--which naturally elicits the question, "Enough for what?" Indeed, one ...
Liccione, Michael
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