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Homo Poeta: Rowan Williams and Poetic Anthropology

Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 96-119, January 2025.
Abstract Rowan Williams's trinitarian ontology rests on the affirmation of eros within God and the ‘irreducible otherness’ of the divine persons to one another. The divine persons are accordingly conceived in ek‐static terms as ‘giving more than they are’.
Patrick John McGlinchey
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Nichts anderes als Karfunkel

Internationale Zeitschrift für Kulturkomparatistik
Nothing other than a carbuncle The carbuncle as a Christological symbol of atmosphere in Nicholas of Cusa - with reference to the late antique and medieval gemstone allegory.
Pilar Bücker
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Time, History, and Providence in the Philosophy of Nicholas of Cusa [PDF]

, 2014
Although Nicholas of Cusa occasionally discussed how the universe must be understood as the unfolding of the absolutely infinite in time, he left open questions about any distinction between natural time and historical time, how either notion of time ...
Aleksander, Jason
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Adorno on the ethical and the ineffable [PDF]

, 2002
The thesis is that Adorno has a normative ethics, albeit a minimal and negative ethics of resistance. However Adorno’s ethical theory faces two problems: the problem of the availability of the good and the problem of whether a normative ethics is ...
Finlayson, James Gordon
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The Gift of Intelligence and the Sacramentality of Real Presence: Overcoming the Dataist Metaphysics of Modern Cognitivism

Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 921-947, October 2024.
Abstract In the last twenty‐five years scientific research on embodied cognition and related discussions in the philosophy of technology and science have led to two groundbreaking insights: 1. Perceptions, memories, meanings, and volitions are neither located in the brain nor reducible to intentional acts of ‘autonomous subjects’. 2. Human intelligence
Johannes Hoff
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A Conversation on Divine Infinity and Cantorian Set Theory [PDF]

, 2012
This essay is written as a drama that opens with Aristotle, St. Augustine of Hippo, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Nicholas of Cusa debating the nature and reality of infinity, introducing historical concepts such as potential, actual, and divine infinity ...
Henry, Stephen G.
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The role of the Praenotamenta of Jodocus Badius Ascensius in shaping early modern dramatic criticism

Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 416-434, June 2024.
Abstract This article examines the profound and enduring legacy of the treatise on classical drama known as Praenotamenta ascensiana in shaping early modern dramatic poetics. Written by Flemish scholar Jodocus Badius Ascensius (1462–1535) as a preface to his 1502 edition of the Classical plays of Terence, this work has been unjustly overlooked by the ...
Giulia Torello‐Hill
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Between Theology and Mathematics. Nicholas of Cusa’s Philosophy of Mathematics

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2016
The paper is devoted to the philosophical and theological as well as mathematical ideas of Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464). He was a mathematician, but first of all a theologian. Connections between theology and philosophy on the one side and mathematics on
Murawski Roman
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Religious and Philosophical Concept of Semyon Frank in the Context of Western Christian Theology

Концепт: философия, религия, культура, 2021
The article examines the theological concepts of Semyon Frank that derive from the system of Nicholas of Cusa’s Neoplatonism. The ideas of Frank are problematic in origin, as they are attributed to different religious traditions.
V. A. Dolin
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Social organizations and political institutions: why China and Europe diverged

Economica, Volume 91, Issue 362, Page 347-382, April 2024.
Abstract This paper discusses the historical and social origins of the bifurcation in the political institutions of China and Western Europe. An important factor, recognized in the literature, is that China centralized state institutions very early on, while Europe remained politically fragmented for much longer.
Joel Mokyr, Guido Tabellini
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