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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Philosophical theology"”.
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Protestant Nominalism: An Analysis of Post-Reformation (1555-1662) Protestant Philosophical Theology
… based on the thesis that Protestant philosophical theology is constitutively Scotist and/or nominalist in its metaphysics – what I call the “Protestant-nominalist critique” – and assesses them against the philosophical theologies of representative theologians from the Anglican and …
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Transcendence, Immanence and the Triunity of God : A Study of William Temple's Philosophical Theology
… characteristic themes and approaches in Temple's philosophical theology - principally in his three major works, *Mens Creatrix* (1917), *Christus Veritas* (1924), and *Nature, Man and God* (1934) - which it is the purpose of this study to examine with a view to understanding God's relation to the …
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Insights and disclosures: a study of the philosophical theology of Bernard Lonergan and Ian Ramsey
… compares and contrasts some aspects of the philosophical theology of Canadian Jesuit Bernard Lonergan (1904 - 1984) and Anglican Bishop Ian Ramsey (1915 - 1972). We ask whether the views of two theologians from very different backgrounds can be compatible. Lonergan and Ramsey both thought …
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Evangelicalism, cultural influences and theological change: considered with special reference to the thought of Thomas Rawson Birks (1810-1883)
… basis and discusses Birks's dogmatic and philosophical theology, sermons, and journalism. It also takes full account of his contributions to contemporary debates on social, political and scientific issues, considering them in relation to their cultural and ideological context. The study …
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The legal philosophy of al-Ghazali: law, language and theology in al-Mustasfa
… in Muslim thought and famous for his writings on theology and mysticism. Al-Ghazali’s first career was that of a jurist and he had made major contributions to the jurisprudence of the Shafii school. As time goes on his juristic contributions are increasingly being relegated to a secondary level. …
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Divine Disclosures: Religious Experiences as Evidence in Theology
… how it can be used to formalize disputes in philosophical theology concerning the evidential import of divine hiddenness and religious diversity. The sixth chapter defends the procedure’s presumption that God is a perfect being by evaluating an Anselmian account of the reference of “God”.
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The God-World Relationship Between Joseph Bracken, Philip Clayton, and the Open Theism
… than untenable differences among Bracken’s theology, Clayton’s panentheism, and the open theism. On the one hand, even though theological perspectives of Bracken and Clayton are obviously different from each other, they are both influenced in specific ways by Whitehead. On the other hand, …
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The nature of temptation and its role in the development of moral virtue: an exploration in analytic moral theology
… the last 70 years there has been an explosion of philosophical and theological work on the nature of virtue and the process of virtue formation. Yet philosophers and theologians have paid little attention to the phenomenon of temptation and its role in developing virtue. Indeed, little analytic …
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Philosophy in Early Medieval Ireland: Nature, Hierachy and Inspiration
… medieval distinctions between philosophy and theology, the term ‘philosophy’ describes the mode and degree the soul’s participation in the gracious revelation of God’s wisdom apart from – though ideally in cooperation with – the further means of grace which are manifest through the Church …
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A Contemporary Consideration of the Role of Metaphysics in Systematic Theology: The Contributions of Pope John Paul II and Claude Tresmontant
It has been traditionally held that Catholic theology has notable metaphysical threads deeply connected with the fabric of its faith and its systematic presentation. This dissertation focuses upon those "metaphysical threads" in order to explore their past, present and possible future status within …
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Divine simplicity and the triune identity: a critical dialogue with the theological metaphysics of Robert W. Jenson
… doctrine of divine simplicity in systematic and philosophical theology, following decades of intense reflection on the tri-personhood of the Christian God. New studies on divine simplicity have been written from the perspective of historical theology, philosophy of religion, and systematic …
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Blessed thorns : a meditation on Spinoza's God
Despite having been published over three hundred years ago, Spinoza's Ethics is a text that is still, even today, widely misunderstood. Two of the more common and persistent misunderstandings revolve around the accusations of some who have labeled his philosophy both atheistic and materialistic. …
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Timelessly Present, Compassionately Impassible: A Defense of Two Classical Divine Attributes
… have, especially in recent decades, come under philosophical and theological attack – God’s timelessness and impassibility (inability to suffer). Is the “classical” Lord truly Immanuel, i.e. with us? This general question motivates the study.</p> <p>The opening three chapters analyze aspects of …
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Holiness and humanism: a comparative-religions commentary on book 2 of Cicero’s laws, with special reference to Confucianism and Chinese thought
… Minerva; hyperphilologism and ancient holist theology (hence reference to current African philosophy and theology and to modern religious traditions). Cicero's anti-Platonism/anti-utopianism. parallel Confucian-Mohist enmity, and the common substrate of family and family rite; mistaking …
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Henry Fielding : literary and theological misplacement
… is intended as a dialogue between literature and theology, utilizing selected works of the playwright and novelist, Henry Fielding (1707-54). While historical studies of Fielding have clearly yielded much of importance, a broader and less deterministic assessment concerning the latent ambivalences …
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Graceful Nothings: The Art of Beginning in Søren Kierkegaard’s Theological Anthropology
… resists the related tendency to bifurcate the philosophical and theological dimensions of Kierkegaard’s thought. In terms of enduring issues in wider philosophical theology and philosophy of religion, this study: (1) uses a methodology of reading with, which deploys close textual readings as …
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The Multiverse and Participatory Metaphysics
This dissertation brings a new philosophical perspective to an important topic in the contemporary theology and science dialogue, specifically the theological reception of multiverse thought in modern cosmology. In light of recent cosmological speculation about the plausibility of a ‘multiverse,’ a …
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Pentecost, process, and power: a critical comparison of Concursus in Operational Pentecostal-Charismatic Theology and Philosophical Process-Relational Theology
… interaction with more academically and philosophically oriented theological traditions such as Process- Relational theology. The second chapter comprises an historical survey of the Pentecostal-Charismatic movements, including key dogmas and practices. Chapter three comprises an …
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