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The Lord of Limits: On Trinitarian Ontology and the Tragic

Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 658-683, October 2025.
Abstract The essay focuses on a dimension of the trinitarian metaphysics of Rowan Williams. It aims to articulate his understanding of the ontological implications of the Trinity, particularly in relation to his theological leitmotif of the tragic, and has a reparative focus of easing some of the tensions that may arise in such relating.
Khegan M. Delport
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Agency Experience and the Limitations of Non‐Contrastive Transcendence

Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 602-612, October 2025.
Abstract This essay argues that although the principle of non‐contrastive transcendence (NCT) is persuasive on its own terms, there are theologically important dimensions of the relationship between divine and human agency that are not captured by an interpretive framework governed by NCT alone. Agency is not just a philosophical category; it is also a
Simeon Zahl
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Beyond the Anthropocene: Construction of Human Agency within Lutheran Eco‐Theology

Dialog, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 83-89, Summer 2025.
ABSTRACT For several decades, Lutheran theologians have wrestled with the issue of the climate crisis. This has resulted in a body of scholarship that utilizes Christological frameworks to articulate agential constructs. While recognizing such contributions as inherently valuable and highly significant, this article suggests that Lutheran eco ...
Hilla Lahtinen
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Recommendations for the Future of Pneumatology

, 2011
Filled with the Spirit is set in this volume of Pneuma in conversation with the reviews of Blaine Charette, Jenny Everts, Amy Donaldson, Frank Macchia, Jim Shelton, and Archie Wright. Their responses raise three critical questions about the character and
John R. (Jack) Levison
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A Musico-Pneumatology for Christian Formation: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Polyphony of Life in the Spirit

, 2022
A small corner of specialist Bonhoeffer scholarship has long-recognised that the musico-theological discussions in his prison letters go beyond simple musings written to a like-minded soul. In recent years Bonhoeffer’s creative use of musical terminology

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Comparison between the respective views of John Calvin and classical Pentecostals on the role of the Holy Spirit in reading the Bible

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
The growth of the Pentecostal movement in the global south implies that its pneumatological emphases be noticed by other Christian traditions, including the hermeneutical processes followed to interpret the Bible, the Christians’ source of revelation ...
Marius Nel
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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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Religion and the Human in the Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Christianity

Консультативная психология и психотерапия, 2015
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s name is associated with serious changes in the life of Western society in the second half of the twentieth century. Pastor Bonhoeffer was not afraid to go far in his statements.
Nyrkov A.
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Desire: A Theological Reappraisal

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 3-23, January 2025.
Abstract Desire and its cognates—longing, yearning—do a lot of hard work in modern theology, the work grounded in philosophical precedents going back at least as far as the early German Romantics. These precedents helped to inaugurate the twentieth century explorations of psychoanalysis.
Graham Ward
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The Spirit as Plural Person

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 94-125, January 2025.
Abstract According to plural person theory, a group of close friends can act together not just distributively, as separate individuals all at once, but also corporately, as a nonmetaphorical plural person supervening on the friends. This article proposes that the Spirit is a plural person in precisely this sense.
Olivia Bustion
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