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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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Life as Relatio: Classical Metaphysics and Trinitarian Ontology

Theological Research. The Journal of Systematic Theology, 2014
Aristotle, Metaphysics.Augustine, The Trinity.Ayres L., (Mis)Adventures in Trinitarian Ontologies, in: J. Polkinghorne (ed.), The Trinity and an Entangled World, Cambridge 2010, pp. 130–145.Bausola A., La libertà, Brescia 1990.Berti E., “Per i viventi l’essere è il vivere” (Aristotle, De anima 415.b.13), in: M. Sánchez Sorondo (ed.), La vita, Roma 1998,
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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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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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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 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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Fondamenti di un teismo trinitario [PDF]

, 2017
The Author proposes to describe the possible foundations of a Trinitarian theism that may be a philosophically adequate translation of the Johannine declaration: “God is love”, introduced by some contemporary thinkers as a key to resolving some aporias ...
Migliorini, Damiano
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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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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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