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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Divine nature"”.
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Charles Hodge: Evangelical Mystic
… of sanctification is “a participation of the Divine nature, or the conformity of the soul to God.” His theology of sanctification and the Christian life is directly linked to John Calvin and the Westminster Standards and therefore can provide a corrective influence on current Presbyterian …
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Rational Foundationalism
… with God, certain Scholastic doctrines about the divine nature, such as absolute simplicity, will have to be abandoned—a consequence that I argue is a virtue rather than vice of the proposal.
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Let there be light: developing the mystical luminosity experience construct and scale
Light of a transcendental or divine nature is widely described in various mystical and religious traditions, and light with mystical qualities is reported in many nonordinary experiences studied today, most notably near-death and mystical experiences. Despite its significance to contemporary …
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That God May be All in All: A Paterology Demonstrating that the Father is the Initiator of all Divine Activity
… of the Godhead, Father is the initiator of all divine activity. This does not mean that God the Son or God the Holy Spirit are inferior nor does it mean that they do not equally and fully possess the divine nature in some sort of functional tri-theism. On the contrary, Scripture repeatedly …
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The rediscovery of meaning
… invisible qualities - His eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so men are without excuse. Job 32:8 But it is the spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding. Joshua 4:5-7 Each of you is to take up a …
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Sermons on Jesus’s Fulfillment of the Old Testament in John’s Gospel, Presented at Pilgrim Baptist Church in Wilkesboro, North Carolina
… Christ in Scripture and demonstrates to them the divine nature of the Holy Scriptures. Biblical theology is an essential tool in helping Christians fully dive into the message of John and appreciate the wonder and beauty of the book. Chapter 1 provides an explanation of what biblical theology is …
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Paul's doctrine of Christian love
… Hence, "love Is of God", because it is God’s nature to impart blessing and to seek fellowship pith his Intelligent creatures. All love among men is reflection of the divine nature in man — a trace of the presence of him who is ever seeking to reconcile men to himself, to one another, and to …
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Knowing the divine persons: an engagement with Wolfhart Pannenberg’s doctrine of Revelation and Trinitarian theology
… places an inadequate epistemic role onto the divine nature of Christ, making Christ’s resurrection the sole epistemic method for coming to knowledge of the Triune persons. Polanyi’s concept of dual control bridges Pannenberg’s bifurcation of Jesus Christ’s dual natures. The fifth chapter …
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"The Fountain of Life": John Gill’s Doctrine of Christ's Eternal Sonship
… persons within the Godhead and evinced the Son’s divine nature. Both of these aspects of Gill’s doctrine of eternal generation were crucial in defending the doctrine of the Trinity in opposition to Socinianism and a resurging Sabellianism. While Gill’s doctrine of the Trinity and eternal …
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God's wrathful children : toward an ethic of vengeance, retribution, and renewal for a post-apartheid nation
God's wrath results in divine acts of vengeance in favour of the powerless and the oppressed. This manifestation of anger is devoid of hatred and malice, for in the first epistle of John, love is equated with God in such a way that it is the personification of the divine Being (1 John 4:7-12). …
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Discrimination and Desire: Gregory of Nyssa’s Hagiographical Writing and the Holy Life
… action leads to ontological μίμησις of the Divine Nature qua virtue. The Christian experiences spiritual pleasure in the rational faculty, the passions begin to wane and they experience desire for virtue as the true good. Thus, reordered ἐπιθυμία has made it possible to make a correct …
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Retrieving Eternal Procession: A Dogmatic Western Account of the Holy Spirit’s Relation to the Father and the Son in the Triune God’s Divine Life
… within orthodoxy underscores its classical nature. In chapter 3, I present biblical evidence for the Holy Spirit’s eternal procession, focusing on John 14–17. I follow Augustine’s hermeneutical rules for interpreting the Son’s eternal relation to the Father and applying them, mutatis …
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The person of Christ in the Seventh–day Adventism: doctrine–building and E. J. Wagonner’s potential in developing christological dialogue with eastern Christianity
… adopted the belief that Jesus Christ is fully divine and eternal, and abandoned the Arian, and semi-Arian teachings of its pioneers. The thesis also demonstrates that, with a seasoned Christology in place, the Seventh–day Adventism is ready to engage a more meaningful Christological dialogue …
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Sacrament of Deification: The Eucharistic Vision of Alexander Schmemann in Light of the Doctrine of Theosis
… that addresses the critical questions of human nature, human destiny and creation, as well as identifies humanity's eternal vocation to theosis: union with God through participation in the divine nature and Trinitarian love. An examination of Schmemann's Eucharistic theology reveals that theosis …
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De Impassibilitate Et Satisfactione: An Examination of the Methodological Implications of Trinitarian Classical Theism for the Doctrine of the Atonement
… In short, this dissertation argues that divine impassibility, which functions as an entailment of the complex of doctrines in Trinitarian classical theism (aseity, simplicity, purus actus, immutability, eternality, and the like), is consistent with God’s making satisfaction for sins. I …
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The Concept of Person in Christian Theology: An Exposition and Defense of a Classical Boethian/Thomistic Definition of Person
… individual substance (subsistence) of a rational nature. Special attention is paid to Thomas Aquinas’ exposition and defense of Boethius’ definition in the Summa Theologiae. This work begins by examining some current conceptions of personhood. It is argued that many contemporary conceptions of …
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Analysis and Evaluation of Vladimir Lossky's Doctrine of Theosis
… into an impersonal reabsorption into the divine nature as it is in Neoplatonism. In affirming the ontological character of theosis, Lossky exploits two crucial distinctions that were made in Orthodox theology: essence/energy and person/nature.</p> <p>In evaluating the main biblical and …
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Union with Christ in the Writings of Ellen G. White
… Her key metaphors used to describe the nature of this relationship are the vine and the branches, the mystic ladder and the golden chain. The vine and the branches explain how believers are intimately connected to Christ, receiving moral and spiritual power through the Holy Spirit who …
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'How can his word be trusted?': speaker and authority in Old Norse wisdom poetry
… a warning about the fickleness of human, and divine, nature. He cites his own flagrant deception of giants who trusted him in order to win the mead of poetry as evidence for this deep-seated capacity for deceit, asking of himself: ‘how can his word be trusted?’ This is an intriguing question …
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Piers Plowman and the Sacraments of Nature
… signs which manifest some semblance of the divine nature within the created universe. It makes the distinctive claim that the sacramental theology of *Piers Plowman* is interwoven with its natural theology, and that this relationship is the key to understanding the narrator’s epistemic …
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