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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 paradox of ineffability [PDF]
, 2017 Saying that x is ineffable seems to be paradoxical – either I cannot say anything about x, not even that it is ineffable – or I can say that it is ineffable, but then I can say something and it is not ineffable.
Sebastian, Gäb
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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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Augustine’s Paradigm ’ab exterioribus ad interiora, ab inferioribus ad superiora’ in the Western and Eastern Christian Mysticism [PDF]
, 2015 I argue that St. Augustine of Hippo was the first in the history of Christian spirituality who expressed a key tendency of Christian mysticism, which implies a gradual intellectual ascent of the human soul to God, consisting of the three main stages ...
Alexey, Fokin
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Being Wounded: Finitude and the Infinite in Jean Louis Chrétien and Gregory of Nyssa
Modern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 413-434, July 2023., 2023 Abstract Wounds appear throughout the writings of Jean‐Louis Chrétien and Gregory of Nyssa. Most well known in Chrétien's corpus is his description of prayer as a “wounded word,” a phrase that seeks to describe an ungraspable dimension of phenomenal life in which the contingency and groundlessness of finitude appear as gifts.
Thomas Breedlove
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Normative Political Theology as Intensified Critique [PDF]
, 2018 Some theorists are suspicious of normative political theology because they believe it undermines critical rationality. In my view, these theorists neglect theological traditions that resist dogmatism through intensified critique.
Newheiser, David
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The Ecumenical Review, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 215-234, April 2023., 2023 Abstract This article gives an account of the discussions about the creed that took place at the Council of Nicaea in 325. It considers major problems regarding its origin and history and outlines the circumstances of its composition, its peculiar structure, and its purpose on the basis of the latest research. Finally, it discusses the legacy of Nicaea
Wolfram Kinzig
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Eros in the first century’s Christian theology [PDF]
, 2015 For among most contemporaries, the concept of Eros seems to have nothing to do with Christianity. Sifting through the psychoanalysis of sexual fantasy, theologically it says nothing.
Marica, Adrian Mircea
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On Ideas in Motion in Baghdad and Beyond [PDF]
, 2018 Note on Damien Janos (ed.), Ideas in Motion in Baghdad and Beyond. Philosophical and Theological Exchanges between Christians and Muslims in the Third/Ninth and Fourth/Tenth Centuries, (Islamic History and Civilization.
Martini, Cecilia
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Hierarchy and Likeness – Ways to Union with God in Pseudo-Dionysius and Aquinas
, 2020 The influence of Pseudo-Dionysius’ apophatic theology, especially of his treatise On the Divine Names, is well documented. My aim is to explore a different theme of his work, of which an echo could possibly be found in later authors including Aquinas ...
A. Kutarňa
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