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Ethics after Humanity

Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 611-638, December 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT Can humanity survive climate change and mass extinction? Concepts of humanity assumed or implicit in the field at the founding of this journal are under critical pressure from multiple directions. Reading across schools of thought confronting relations sometimes called Anthropocene, this essay explains five tasks for religious ethics “after ...
Willis Jenkins
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Demarcating Deification and the Indwelling of the Holy Spirit in Reformed Theology

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2020
The recent interest in exploring whether authoritative figures of the Reformed tradition employed a concept of theōsis or deification in their soteriology continues to grow.
Leidenhag Joanna
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Theōsis: A Comparative Study of T. F. Torrance and Rāmānuja [PDF]

, 2017
This essay is an imaginative conversation as I engage two religious thinkers—the prolific Reformed theologian Thomas F. Torrance (1913-2007) and the great Vedāntin Rāmānuja (traditionally, 1017–1137).
Tsoukalas, Steven
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HUMAN UNIQUENESS: DEBATES IN SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY

Zygon®, Volume 58, Issue 2, Page 384-404, June 2023., 2023
Abstract In both science and theology, there has been a revolution in our understanding of the nature of human uniqueness. As a background to this Symposium on the subject, a summary is here given of the history of Homo sapiens that is being revealed by fossil, archaeological, and genetic evidence.
Eric Priest
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The question of deification in the theology of John Calvin

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2017
Calvin scholars debate whether Calvin s theology supports the Eastern Orthodox theosis, which advocates the believers participation in the intrinsic divine life, mediated by Christ s humanity in their union with Christ.
Sung W. Park
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The Phenomenology of Religious Life: From Primary Christianity to Eastern Christianity [PDF]

, 2015
In this paper I attempt a reading of Heidegger’s interpretations of St. Paul’s Epistles in light of the distinction between Eastern and Western thought.
Bejinariu, Alexandru
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Theosis in die Oosters-Ortodokse en Westers-Protestantse teologiese debat

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
Theosis in the Eastern-Orthodox and Western-Protestant theological debate: All major religions agree on one theme, namely they strive to provide an answer regarding the relation with their God.
Barend J. van Wyk
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Panpsychism and God

Philosophy Compass, Volume 17, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Panpsychism is the view, found in ancient and modern, Eastern and Western philosophies, that mind is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of the universe. This article explores the use of panpsychism to support different views of God. It is seen that as a family of views, panpsychism is a theologically flexible position that has been used to ...
Joanna Leidenhag
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Theosis and Martyria—The Spiritual Process of Deification and Its Implication for the Mission of the Church

Religions, 2022
This article analyses the role of the spiritual path of theosis in the mission of the Eastern Orthodox church. It evaluates the main directions in which the church could have a fundamental role in the world, such as peace, human dignity or the ecological
Cristian Sebastian Sonea
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