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International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 70-90, January 2024.Abstract This article draws on the distinction between instrumentalism and realism in the philosophy of science to consider the merits of two possible approaches to the doctrine of the Trinity. One considers this doctrine to be an intellectual construct, which coordinates multiple insights about the nature and action of God; the other considers it to ...
Alister E. McGrath
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Il noeîn parmenideo (DK 28 B3) nella concezione plotiniana del Noûs
Methodos, 2016 The present paper aims to show how Plotinus, in a perspective that remains essentially Platonic, interprets the notion of noeîn in Parmenides, especially in the light of the well known Fr. 3 DK, on the identity of being and thought. It needs to point out
Michele Abbate
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Surprise, Hope and Gift: A Pneumatological Account of the Unexpected Nature of Vocation
International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 91-110, January 2024.Abstract God's call can be surprising and unexpected. This article evaluates theologies of vocation in light of this potential for surprise. Contemporary Protestant theological interpretations of vocation are critiqued as incomplete due to their tendency to present vocation as the expression and utilisation of innate abilities without giving sufficient
Cara F. Lovell
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A Letter that Killeth: Gregory of Nyssa on How (Not) to Read Scripture, Platonically
Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 147-171, January 2024.Abstract In this essay, I explore the emergence of multicolumn Bibles in late antiquity, with a particular emphasis on Origen's Hexapla and its use by Gregory of Nyssa. I contextualise Gregory's use of multicolumn Bibles within the Origenian tradition and show that, in this intellectual context, multicolumn Bibles functioned as hermeneutical rather ...
ISIDOROS C. KATSOS
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Simplicius on Empedocles: A note on his commentary in Phys. 157.25–161.20
ШагиThe present study attempts to show what influence a commentary can have on the formation of ideas about a preceding philosophical tradition. A case in point is Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s “Physics” and on fragments of Empedocles’ poem.
A. S. Afonasina
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Manuscript “Neoplatonic Philosophy” by Pamfil D. Yurkevych: source criticism
Наукові записки НаУКМА: Філософія та релігієзнавство, 2018 This article is the first to bring into scientific discussion and to provide a historico-philosophical analysis of a manuscript “Neoplatonic Philosophy from the archive of Pamfil Danylovych Yurkevych (1826–1874). The reviewed manuscript belongs to P.
Anna Pylypiuk
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Creation and Divine Providence in Plotinus [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper, we argue that Plotinus denies deliberative forethought about the physical cosmos to the demiurge on the basis of certain basic and widely shared Platonic and Aristotelian assumptions about the character of divine thought.
Noble, Christopher, Powers, Nathan
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Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 82-96, January 2024.Abstract This article argues that freedom in the divine creative act is better understood as a freedom of consent rather than freedom of will. However, even if some conundrums are thus avoided, one has to face the apparent antinomy between both God's creative act from His very nature and God's absolute freedom.
Isabelle Moulin
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Varieties of Spiritual Sense: Cusanus and John Smith [PDF]
, 2019 This chapter offers a window into the theologies of Cusanus and the Cambridge Platonist John Smith (1618–52) by illuminating their contrasting appropriations of Origen’s concept of the spiritual senses.
Michaud, Derek
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Augustine on pagan knowledge of God and the Trinity
Studium: Filosofía y Teología, 2017 Augustine narrates in Confessions, VII, ix, 13-15 his encounter with the Platonist books, which permitted him to grasp the immateriality of God and surprisingly the Christian Trinity too, a thesis that seems confirmed in the psychological arguments he ...
Alfonso Herreros Besa
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