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Riflessioni sul demiurgo in Plotino a partire dall’interpretazione del Timeo e dell’Epinomide

Peitho
The problem of the interpretation of the Timaeus represents one of the greatest exegetical challenges for Plotinus. For Plotinus the Timaeus is a problematic dialogue due to its mythical-allegorical language and the fact that some doctrines in the work ...
Enrico Volpe
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The Incarnational Aesthetic of David Brown☆

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The notion of incarnation has historically been a prominent concept for the acceptance of images and the interpretation of art within Christianity. A contemporary proponent of this line of reasoning about the theological potential of art is David Brown, who builds his theology of culture on the doctrine of incarnation. This article presents an
Filip Taufer
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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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THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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The Ontology of Evil and Its Anthropological Moment of Freedom in Pär Lagerkvist’s The Dwarf and Plotinus’ Enneads (I.VII-VIII) [PDF]

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2020
The aim of this paper is to provide a philosophical reading of a famous novel by Pär Lagerkvist entitled The Dwarf. The novel’s protagonist is to be found as the embodiment of evil. His diaries explore his own identity.
Miłosz Puczydłowski
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Renaissance of the Trinitarian: Erwin Schadel's Integral Perspective

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Erwin Schadel (1946–2016), a central yet little‐known figure of the so‐called Bamberg School, developed a distinctive triadic ontology that deserves attention within the contemporary renaissance of Trinitarian thought. Drawing on Augustinian and Comenian sources, Schadel articulates a relational grammar of being through the categories of in ...
Matteo Raffaelli
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Anselm's Temporal‐Ontological Proof

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In his Reply to Gaunilo, Anselm presented two additional arguments for the existence of God beyond those that appear in the Proslogion. In “The Logical Structure of Anselm's Argument,” Robert M. Adams isolates each. One, he develops into a modal ontological argument along the lines of other 20th century ontological arguments (e.g., those of ...
Daniel Rubio
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Neoplatonism and Byzantine Patristics: The Relationship of Plotinus’ Concept of the Triad and the Christian Doctrine of the Holy Trinity

RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2022
Traces the continuity of the ideas of Neoplatonism in Greek-Byzantine Patristics in the process of developing the orthodox doctrine of the Holy Trinity by the Church Fathers.
Denis I. Chistyakov
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Nature's Complexity Alive: Farewell to Several Unificatory Cosmological Arguments for Monism

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Throughout history, numerous thinkers have claimed that monism—in the form of priority monism, existence monism, monotheistic monism, or versions that posit an extra‐cosmic ultimate being—theoretically surpasses pluralism, above all by positing a unified universe.
Lok‐Chi Chan
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Plotinus’un Hayatı ve Çalışmalarının Düzenlenmesi Hakkında

Eskiyeni, 2017
Esere başlamadan önce birkaç hususu vurgulamada fayda mülahaza ediyoruz: a) Çeviride, Ste- phen MacKenna’nın İngilizce tercümesi esas alınmıştır. (Porphyry, On the Life of Plotinus and the Arrangement of his Work, [Plotinus, The Enneads, Translated by ...
Mehmet Murat Karakaya
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