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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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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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Narodziny Boga w duszy człowieka według Mistrza Eckarta
Wrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny, 2009 This article presents the mystical assumptions of Master John Eckhart, a medieval Dominican friar. Eckhart, thanks to the originality of his conceptions, formed the basis for a new branch of mysticism, called intellectual-speculative mysticism, based on ...
Tomasz Franc
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Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity [PDF]
, 2019 Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity examines the various ways in which Christian intellectuals engaged with Platonism both as a pagan competitor and as a source of philosophical material useful to the Christian faith.
Emilsson, Eyjolfur +3 more
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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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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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Mistic and Paideia : Dionysius the Pseudo Areopagite [PDF]
, 2005 The author who presents himself as Dionysius the Areopagite, the converted by Saint Paul on the Areopagus was probably a syrian monk who wrote in the late V century.
Brandão, Bernardo Guadalupe S. L.
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, 2019 This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores, inter alia, the strategy employed by Augustine in using Plato as a pseudo-prophet against later Platonists and explores ...
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The Measure of All Gods: Religious Paradigms of the Antiquity as Anthropological Invariants [PDF]
, 2018 Purpose of the article is the reconstruction of ancient Greek and ancient Roman models of religiosity as anthropological invariants that determine the patterns of thinking and being of subsequent eras. Theoretical basis.
Halapsis, Alex V.
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Испуњење крштењских завета у Светој Тајни монашког пострига
Godišnjak, 2017 Understanding the Sacrament of Baptism in the context of the Orthodox ascetics is a key to the true interpretation of the monastic tonsure as a Sacrament. Baptism and monastic tonsure are essentially based on the ascetic ethos and the ascetics is the one
Nenad Tupeša
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