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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Nicholas of Cusa"”.
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Whole-Earth consciousness in Maximus the Confessor, Nicholas of Cusa, and Teilhard de Chardin: seeds for a 21st century sacramental creation spirituality and ecological ethics
… has been criticized as a cause and enabler of Earth's ecological crisis. This criticism is based on the conclusion that Christianity promotes a spiritual-material dualism and that the material side of life has little sacred value. It is also based on the observed hesitancy of many Christians …
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The Multiverse and Participatory Metaphysics
… dialogue, specifically the theological reception of multiverse thought in modern cosmology. In light of recent cosmological speculation about the plausibility of a ‘multiverse,’ a cosmic ensemble in which our own universe is just one of many, theological responses have largely focused on the …
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He descended into hell: an English Reformation controversy
During the Reformation of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, almost all of the reformers appealed in some way to the writings of the early fathers in their polemical debates against the Roman church. But the English church made the claim that their purpose was only to teach that which was …
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Infinite Art: The Problem of 'Making' for a Christian Metaphysics
This thesis is a philosophical exposition of ‘making’ in the Christian tradition. I argue that a defensible Christian metaphysics stands or falls with the coherence of its understanding of the existential modalities of producers and products and the cognitive structure of productive knowledge or …
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Shakespeare and the Grace of Words: A Doxological Reading of "King Lear" and "The Winter's Tale"
… through a doxological approach, an understanding of all language as grounded in praise for the divine. My textual analyses of Shakespeare’s plays both instantiate and complement this approach, learning from insights from the literary tradition while attending to the theological compass of the …
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Identifying the Classical Theologia Crucis and in this Light Karl Barth's Modern Theology of the Cross
… parts. It first identifies the shape and content of an ancient system of Christian thought predicated on the theology of the cross of Jesus Christ, and proposes the marks typifying its theologians. Over against the ensuing hermeneutic it next finds the project of twentieth century Swiss theologian …