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An assessment of some recent Trinitarian thought [PDF]

, 1999
This thesis is a study of some representative thinkers in recent trinitarian thinking (post 1970). My intention is to note leading themes, in particular changes from past emphases, and also assess the seriousness of some of the problems that result.
Kim, Sung Hyun
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Mediating God’s relationality? A trinitarian perichoretic critique of the reliance on anointed objects in African neo-Pentecostalism

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
This article uses the perichoretic nature of the Trinity to evaluate the reliance on anointed objects as instruments of connecting with God amongst African neo-Pentecostal Christians.
Collium Banda
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‘Theological Metaphysics’ and the Christological Determination of the Principle of Analogy: A Response to John Betz's Christ, the Logos of Creation

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper is a response to John Betz's book, Christ, the Logos of Creation: An Essay in Analogical Metaphysics (Emmaus Academic, 2023). The essay confines itself to answering two methodological questions, namely: Does Przywara's approach to analogy indeed represent the basic form (‘Denkform’) that analogy has ‘always assumed’ in Catholic ...
Archie J. Spencer
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Complementarity and cohesion of the sophiologic and scientific vision of creation

Scientia et Fides, 2019
The rapid development of empirical science (physics, biology) and theoretical grounds (theoretical physics) related with them, results in many theories on the origin, evolution and nature of the world, sometimes interpreted as contradictory to the ...
Jan Paweł Strumiłowski
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"Not Three Gods, but One" – Why Reductionism Does Not Serve Our Theological Discourse [PDF]

Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, 2019
The triune nature of God is one of the most complex doctrines of Christianity, and its complexity is further compounded when one considers the incarnation.
Finley Lawson
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The Nature of Christian Doctrine: A Conversation with My Critics

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article opens with a brief account of the six main themes of The Nature of Christian Doctrine, noting in particular the role of the early church as an ‘epistemic community’ of knowledge production, and the significant and helpful parallels between the modern scientific tool of ‘inference to the best explanation’ and early Christian ...
Alister E. McGrath
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Early Interaction Between Scripture, Rule of Faith, and Evolving Christian Doctrine and Tradition: A Response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine examines the interplay between Scripture, the Rule of Faith, and evolving Christian doctrine and tradition. Focusing on McGrath’s critique of Lindbeck’s presentation of doctrinal modalities, the article explores how doctrinal formation involves primarily synchronic (canonical),
Tomas Bokedal
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Comparisons Ancient and Modern: Was Cyril of Alexandria a Good Reader of Paul?

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Cyril of Alexandria is the final stop on Michael Magree's analysis of the patristic interpretation of Pauline kenosis, serving as the culmination of the historical arc he surveys. Although Magree is careful to avoid overtly judging the success of various interpreters as readers of the Apostle, it is clear that he finds Cyril's appropriation of
Matthew R. Crawford
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Toward an Ecumenical Metaphysics? A Response to Reviewers of Christ the Logos of Creation

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract After a series of promising ecumenical meetings in 1929 and 1931 with the Jesuit Erich Przywara, who advocated an analogical understanding of the relationship between God and world – doing so in part to ward off the danger posed by modern forms of pantheism – Karl Barth abruptly threw down the gauntlet and presented a serious obstacle to ...
John R. Betz
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Divine action, Christ and the doctrine of God : the trinitarian grammar of Adolf Schlatter's theology [PDF]

, 2015
This dissertation constitutes an examination of the inner-theological basis of Adolf Schlatter's theology which, as recent research has established, needs to be understood in terms of a theology of God's works. The foundation of Schlatter's theology is
Loos, Andreas
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