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QUEERING THE HORIZON: GENDER ABOLITION, TRANSGENDER IDENTITY, AND THE ESCHATOLOGY OF GREGORY OF NYSSA

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 351-366, July 2025.
Abstract In line with José Esteban Muñoz's claim that ‘[t]he future is queerness's domain’, this article presents an approach to transgender and non‐binary identity that is orientated towards a horizon in which there is ‘no longer male and female’ (Galatians 3:28).
Sam Fletcher
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Beyond the Anthropocene: Construction of Human Agency within Lutheran Eco‐Theology

Dialog, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 83-89, Summer 2025.
ABSTRACT For several decades, Lutheran theologians have wrestled with the issue of the climate crisis. This has resulted in a body of scholarship that utilizes Christological frameworks to articulate agential constructs. While recognizing such contributions as inherently valuable and highly significant, this article suggests that Lutheran eco ...
Hilla Lahtinen
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Participation in Christ and Divine and Human Righteousness: Reading Paul with Gregory of Nyssa

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 166-192, April 2025.
Abstract Participation in Christ and divine and human righteousness are vital, yet perennially debated, Pauline motifs. Arguably, what is most distinctive and crucial about ‘righteousness’ in Paul's epistles is its christological re‐definition in texts such as 1 Cor 1:30.
Joshua Heavin
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Deification for all in and through reformed sacramental liturgy

Verbum et Ecclesia
This article proposes a theological reformation within the Dutch Reformed Church by advocating for the integration of three interrelated concepts: Theosis [deification], a fully sacramental liturgy centred on the Eucharist and Apokatastasis [universal ...
Dieter de Bruin
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Desire: A Theological Reappraisal

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 3-23, January 2025.
Abstract Desire and its cognates—longing, yearning—do a lot of hard work in modern theology, the work grounded in philosophical precedents going back at least as far as the early German Romantics. These precedents helped to inaugurate the twentieth century explorations of psychoanalysis.
Graham Ward
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Resonant preaching, sounding theosis: An exploration of liturgical homiletics

Verbum et Ecclesia
Hartmut Rosa invites us to dream of resonant relations of all to the world. This paper will endeavour to envision what resonant relations would mean in the theological register of deification: God and the whole cosmos resonating with one another.
Dieter de Bruin
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The Spirit as Plural Person

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 94-125, January 2025.
Abstract According to plural person theory, a group of close friends can act together not just distributively, as separate individuals all at once, but also corporately, as a nonmetaphorical plural person supervening on the friends. This article proposes that the Spirit is a plural person in precisely this sense.
Olivia Bustion
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On the Homoousia

International Review of Mission, Volume 113, Issue 2, Page 261-279, November 2024.
Abstract The affirmation of the co‐equality (homoousia) of the first and the second persons of the Trinity at the Council of Nicaea is a major milestone in the history of theology and the church. Established at a time when the Roman empire developed its Christian identity, it has often been assumed that Nicene theology was imperial theology.
Joerg Rieger
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Augustine on theosis and divine illumination as the theologic framework for decolonisation

Verbum et Ecclesia
This study examined the plausibility and role of theosis in Augustine’s theory of divine illumination as a theologic framework for decolonising theology. Theologic refers to God’s revelation about himself and his nature. Therefore, through an analysis of
Godfrey T. Baleng
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Theology of Education in the Second Vatican Council’s Gravissimum Educationis

Theology and Philosophy of Education, 2022
Theology of education regards the growth in the journey with God and being with God and others. Gravissimum Educationis (GE) calls for moral learning in education, and specifically Christian education so Christians grow in God, become more Christ-like ...
Stuart Nicolson
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