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An Alien Word? Cosmic Salvation within a Rahnerian Framework
The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The possibility of life beyond our planet raises serious theological questions for Christians, particularly in the realm of soteriology. How would Jesus of Nazareth relate to such creatures? Is he the ‘universal’ saviour, in the cosmic sense? Or are there other incarnations of the Logos, the Word or Son of God?
Brandon R. Peterson
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International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article considers John Betz's book Christ, the Logos of Creation as an exercise in the relation of doctrines within Christian systematic theology.
Andrew Davison
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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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Troubles with Trinitarian (Relational) Theism: Trinity and Gunk [PDF]
, 2018 The paper is the summary of a wider work, a research program. The hypothesis is that if Fundamental Ontology is apophatic – that is, if it has the same dialectical nature (relationality-substantiality) as the Trinity – we can accept that Trinity is also ...
damiano migliorini, Migliorini, Damiano
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Political implications of the Trinity: Two approaches
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019 The political nature of God-images is an indisputable fact. Changes in God-images are often followed by changes in political structures within societies.
Johannes P. Deetlefs
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The enigma of the social relationship: prolegomena to a realist relational sociology [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2018 This paper gives an outline of relational sociology, which understands and explains society and human existence as “relationally constituted”, i.e. as constituted by social relations.
Pierpaolo Donati
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Palamism Does Not Disfigure the Gospel: A Reply to Thomas Weinandy
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract In a 2024 article in the IJST, Fr. Thomas Weinandy argues that the theological system of Gregory Palamas is in grave error, especially with respect to its commitment to an objective ontological distinction between God's essence and His energies. In his concluding paragraph Fr.
Travis Dumsday
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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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Contributions of the relational ontology for a believing appropriation of the Laudato Si’ encyclical
Perseitas, 2018 Pope Francis is the first Pontiff to dedicate an encyclical to the caring of our home, as Saint Francis of Assisi understood it, as our own sister, as our mother Earth.
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Triune Agency, East and West: Uncreated Energies or Created Effects?
Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2020 The present paper situates the Western and Eastern models of divine agency within their respective ontological frameworks. I show how the Western conception of divine agency as the production of ‘created effects’ is rooted in a particular understanding ...
Vidu Adonis
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