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Representation and Interpretation as the Basis of Participation in the Trinity

Religions, 2015
I suggest that God’s life is the Spirit’s eternal interpretation of the Word as the perfect sign (representation) of the Father. Creaturely interpretations imperfectly mirror the perfect coherence of being and representation that is God’s life.
Andrew Robinson
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Romanian theology: A theology of dialogue

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2009
This article offers an overview of the development of Romanian theology through the 20th century, especially after 1989, which constituted a new era for the evolution of Romanian theology.
Ioan Chirila
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When Neo-Charismatic Practices Travel Across the Atlantic

Scandinavian Journal for Leadership & Theology
In this article, we discuss the possible adoption of prophetic ministry, as it is practiced at the Neo-Pentecostal Bethel Church in Redding, California, in a Scandinavian-Lutheran context.
Bjørn Wang, Bård Norheim
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The Revelation of God, East and West: Contrasting Special Revelation in Western Modernity with the Ancient Christian East

Open Theology, 2017
The questions of whether God reveals himself; if so, how we can know a purported revelation is authentic; and how such revelations relate to the insights of reason are discussed by John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, René Descartes, G. W.
Jacobs Nathan A.
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Where God Is Becoming: Anime, Theosis, and the Sacred in Process

Religions
This article explores how Japanese anime has become a space of theological imagination, where viewers encounter the divine not as fixed dogma but as a lived process.
Valentina-Andrada Minea
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Ancient Wisdom, Modern Questions: Western and Orthodox Christianity Engage Psychedelic Spirituality

Religions
Recent studies show that psychedelics such as psilocybin and LSD can reliably occasion spiritual or “mystical-like” experiences under supportive conditions, and the spiritual dimension of these experiences may contribute to their reported mental health ...
Geoffrey Ready, Ron Cole-Turner
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SOUL‐MAKING, THEOSIS, AND EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY: AN IRENAEAN APPROACH

Zygon, 2019
In Romans 5, St. Paul claims that death came into the world through Adam's sin. Many have taken this to foist on us a fundamentalist reading of Genesis.
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THE IMAGO DEI AS A WORK IN PROGRESS: A PERSPECTIVE FROM PALEOANTHROPOLOGY

Zygon, 2014
This article considers the imago Dei from the perspective of paleoanthropology. We identify structural, functional, and relational elements of the imago Dei that emerged mosaically during human evolution.
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From the Androgyne to the Deified Human: Plato’s Erotic Anthropology and its Patristic Transformations

Conatus - Journal of Philosophy
This paper traces the conceptual lineage from Plato’s erotic anthropology to the Christian doctrine of theosis, arguing that the Platonic quest for divine likeness (homoíōsis theōi) reconfigures sexual difference and human nature within a metaphysical ...
Alexis Deodato S. Itao
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Empedocles: Divinization and Suicide [PDF]

SCHOLE, 2007
In his article on Empedocles Sergej Anavesov of Tomsk State University presents a part of his bigger study in the philosophy of suicide, and shows that Empedocles’ famous deed can be understood as an act of “metaphysical revolt”, a mysterious ...
Avanesov, Sergey
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