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Looking Beyond Jerusalem: A Fifteenth‐Century Exercise in Image Comparison
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 640-666, September 2023., 2023 Critical image comparison is a widespread art‐historical practice. This essay explores why a Brabantine artist encouraged viewers to exercise it in the late fifteenth century. At the time, northern European artists tested out how images could be means of transcending the visible world while simultaneously showcasing their very constructedness. The self‐
Hanna Vorholt
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Encore l’Océan de l’Être : deux nouveaux textes (importance de Grégoire de Nazianze pour le thème)
Kentron, 2001 An addition – concerning the Rezeptiongeschichte of Gregory Nazianzen, Or. 38, 7 (= Or. 45, 3) “Ocean of Being” – to the precedent paper (on the symbol of the Ocean used for God : origin and tradition) : a) John Damascenus ...
Jean-Marie Mathieu
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“THE GOD WITH CLAY”: THE IDEA OF DEEP INCARNATION AND THE INFORMATIONAL UNIVERSE
Zygon®, Volume 58, Issue 3, Page 683-713, September 2023., 2023 Abstract This article explores the relations between the idea of deep incarnation and scientific ideas of an informational universe, in which mass, energy, and information belong together. It is argued that the cosmic Christologies developed in the vein of Cappadocian theology (fourth century) and the Franciscan theologian Bonaventure (thirteenth ...
Niels Henrik Gregersen
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HUGO BALL'S RELIGIOUS CONVERSION
German Life and Letters, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 376-391, July 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This essay investigates the German ex‐Dadaist Hugo Ball (1886–1927) and his 1920s work on religious conversion from Paul, Augustine and Francis to writers and poets in modernity. This intense engagement was rooted in Ball's own radical conversion, or ‘re‐conversion’, to an austere form of the Catholicism of his childhood in 1920, just a few ...
Deborah Lewer
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Hope: Being Human in the Anthropocene
International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 25, Issue 3, Page 397-412, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Given the calamities involved in climate change and the impact it is having – and will continue to have, on lives driven towards subsistence – what can be said about the goodness of creation? This essay explores how privileged theologians might rethink the notion of the common good in a situation where the majority are under‐privileged.
Graham Ward
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Aspect visuel de la deification selon Denys L’areopagite [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2010 One of the thinkers who intellectually consolidated deification and gave it a solid doctrinal basis, which has remained fundamentally important until today, was (Pseudo)-Dionysius the Areopagite.
Ivanović Filip
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Pseudo-Dionysius’ Concept of Hierarchy and the Imperial Cult in the Early Roman Empire
Krakowskie Studia z Historii Państwa i Prawa, 2022 This article focuses on the relationship between the imperial cult in pagan Rome and the heavenly hierarchy taught by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. The latter’s thought played a significant role in the construction of the medieval image of the world ...
Marcin Tomasiewicz
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Peitho, 2019 This paper discusses the theoretical relationship between the views of Damascius and those of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. While Damascius’ De principiis is a bold treatise devoted to investigating the hypermetaphysics of apophatism, it anticipates ...
Tiziano F. Ottobrini
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Dionisiese spore in Kusa se metafisika
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018 This article investigates the palimpsest reception of Pseudo-Dionysius (ca. 500) in the metaphysics of Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464). The article covers Cusa’s political theory and metaphysics, which are intertwined.
Johann Beukes
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Histoire Épistémologie Langage, 2021 This paper examines the Syriac grammatical tradition within the framework of “Greek extended grammar”. A first section analyses the evolution of the system of parts of speech, which evolved, between the 6th and 13th centuries, from a Syriac translation ...
Margherita Farina
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