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Algo más sobre Venus y Cupido en las Soledades

Criticón, 2022
When dealing with the couple of Venus and Cupido, the article sets out to reconstruct the mythological theme underlyng the amorous plot of the Soledades which their protagonist is faced with.
Giulia Poggi
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Eros and Etiology in Love’s Labour’s Lost

Humanities, 2022
In Love’s Labour’s Lost, the creation of an academe where study is posited as the antidote to the diseases of the mind caused by worldly desire results in an epidemic of lovesickness.
Darryl Chalk
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Theurgy in Dionysius the Areopagite [PDF]

, 2019
The present chapter aims at offering insights into Dionysius the Areopagite’s notion of theurgy, both with respect to the metaphysical principles that connect with “θεουργία” and the particular sacramental reality that emerges from it. Pavlos argues that
Pavlos, Panagiotis G.
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Eros as the Meeting of Ecstasies in Christ: The Eucharistic Link between Divine and Human Love in Dionysius the Areopagite

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Dionysius's vision of eros as a meeting of reciprocal ecstasies – where lover and beloved each pass out of themselves and into the other – has often been read as unifying dimensions of love otherwise thought to stand in tension, such as giving and receiving.
Noah Karger
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‘Divine Offspring’: Richard Hooker’s Neoplatonic Account of Law and Causality

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2015
Richard Hooker’s (1554-1600) adaptation of classical logos theology is exceptional and indeed quite original for its extended application of the principles of Neoplatonic apophatic theology to the concrete institutional issues of a particular time and ...
Kirby Torrance
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“If you want to become God, free yourself”: Construction of the bourgeois ethic by German folk preachers in the first half of the 14th century

Шаги, 2022
The article consists of two parts and is devoted to the formation of a new bourgeois ethic within the late Medieval mentality. This process is studied on the material of the creation of the so-called “small preachers”, whose activities unfolded in ...
M. Yu. Reutin
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Augustine’s Use of Neoplatonism in Confessions VII: A Response to Peter King [PDF]

, 2005
A modified version of Michael Gorman's comments on Peter King’s paper at the 2004 Henle Conference.  Above all, an account of Augustine’s purposes in discussing Neoplatonism in Confessions VII, showing why Augustine does not tell us certain things we ...
Gorman, Michael
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“That We May Love the As Yet Unknown God”: The Meaning of Analogy in Augustine’s De Trinitate

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent interest in the idea of analogy and the analogy of being, along with the apparent invocation of Augustine’s De Trinitate in the definition of Lateran IV, calls for a renewed investigation into the idea of analogy in the aforementioned text. Methodologically, “analogy” in De Trin. names a form of discourse which attempts to see the truth
Samuel J. Korb
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The Danger of the Confluence of Neoplatonism and Christianity for Biblical Teachings on Salvation

Pan-African Journal of Theology
This paper argues that Neoplatonism’s aim to merge Greek Philosophy and Christianity was not without its impact on the biblical concept of salvation. This confluence presupposes a cosmic order of existence according to which the physical is of a lower ...
Augustin Tchamba
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The Neoplatonic Substructure of Russian Orthodox Iconography and Theology

Визуальная теология, 2023
This paper aims to uncover the underlying Neoplatonic ideas embedded in Russian Orthodox iconography and theology. The focus is on two earlier figures of Neoplatonism, namely, Iamblichus and Plotinus.
Emile Alexandrov
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