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Metaphor and Apophatic Discourse: Putting Sells in Dialogue with Lakoff and Johnson [PDF]

, 2012
In the book, Mystical Languages of Unsaying, Michael A. Sells presents a performative theory of apophatic discourse. His idea is that apophatic discourse functions as a semantic analogue to mystical experience through \"meaning events.\" Although he ...
Carroll, Thomas D.
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Living on This Earth as in Heaven: Time and the Ecological Conversion of Eschatology

Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 833-858, October 2024.
Abstract Eschatological and apocalyptic patterns of thought are today prominent in environmental discourse, across multiple disciplines and media. Yet some theologians criticise these thought patterns for their role in perpetuating and even causing the environmental degradation we now witness. This article argues that the construal of salvation and the
Gunnar Gjermundsen
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Beauty in Petrus Hispanus’s Commentary on De Divinis Nominibus

Religions
Although an edition of Petrus Hispanus’ commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius’ De divinis nominibus has long been available, his contribution to the pivotal question of beauty—so extensively explored by medieval commentators on this treatise—has remained ...
David Torrijos-Castrillejo
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Gudomlig enkelhet och gudomlig närvaro

Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 2022
In this paper, the development of the understanding of the simplicity of the first metaphysical principle in the Neoplatonic tradition is analyzed. It is argued that Plotinus gives the highest priority to simplicity, making it the most important aspect ...
Anders Ek
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Beyond gatekeeping: Philosophical sources, Indigenous philosophy, and the Huarochirí Manuscript

Metaphilosophy, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 365-380, July 2024.
Abstract This paper argues for a broad definition of philosophical sources and how Indigenous traditional knowledge fits that definition. It concludes by showing how, following the previous two points, an Indigenous document such as the Huarochirí Manuscript can be considered a philosophical source by academic philosophers. The paper has three sections:
Jorge Sanchez‐Perez
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Angelology in situ : recovering higher-order beings as emblems of transcendence, immanence and imagination [PDF]

, 2012
The aim of this study is twofold: to identify the theological purpose underlying the depiction of angels at certain key points in the history of their use, and to explore how far that deeper theological rationale can be re-appropriated for our own day.
Potter, Dylan D.
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Beyond the Polemics: Freedom and Necessity in Plotinus and St Maximus Confessor

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 49-63, January 2024.
Abstract Abstract: The aim of this paper is to challenge the prevailing polemic between ‘necessary’ emanation and ‘free’ creation. I begin by arguing for the presence of freedom and volition in the emanationism of Plotinus. I then move on to explore the role of necessity in the creationism of Maximus. In both cases, I rely upon a twofold schematisation
Daniel Heide
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Redeeming Poetics

Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 21-45, January 2024.
Abstract In this essay, I argue that ‘poetics’—defined as ‘poet‐criticism’, a practitioner’s firsthand reflection on poetic composition (poiēsis) and verse technique (technē)—makes possible for philosophical theology something that has heretofore been overlooked.
Steven Toussaint
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A renúncia de Deus como experiência místico-especulativa: o apofaticismo do Pseudo-Dionísio e o anúncio histórico da morte divina.

Horizonte, 2014
GONÇALVES, Werbert Cirilo. A Renúncia de Deus como experiência Místico-Especulativa: o apofaticismo do Pseudo-Dionísio e o anúncio histórico da morte divina. 2014.
Werbert Cirilo Gonçalves
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Theurgy in Dionysius the Areopagite [PDF]

, 2019
The present chapter aims at offering insights into Dionysius the Areopagite’s notion of theurgy, both with respect to the metaphysical principles that connect with “θεουργία” and the particular sacramental reality that emerges from it. Pavlos argues that
Pavlos, Panagiotis G.
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