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Showing 1 to 20 of 326 for “"Theology and Philosophy of Religion"”.
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Graceful Nothings: The Art of Beginning in Søren Kierkegaard’s Theological Anthropology
This study is a constructive account of Søren Kierkegaard’s theological anthropology. In it I show that according to Kierkegaard: (1) human being consists in the continual task of becoming; (2) this becoming demands that we continually begin again; and (3) beginning is a kenotic art executed …
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Q 10:21-22 and Formative Christology
… Thunderbolt," a passage whose precise meaning and role in Q have long been debated by New Testament scholars with seemingly no consensus reached to this date. This crux interpretum presents the readers with a thanksgiving prayer by Jesus that appears particularly puzzling in its present context …
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Divine Sovereignty, Divine Providence, and Prayer in the Thought of Evagrius Ponticus
<p>In the thought of Evagrius Ponticus, we discern an interdependent relationship between prayer and theological belief, particularly between prayer and divine sovereignty and divine providence. We find that Evagrius's teachings on divine sovereignty and divine providence inform and govern his …
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The Mystery of God in Situations of Suffering: Toward the Universality of Christ and a Reconstruction of African Identity
<p>During the patristic era, theology dealt with the problem of how to explain the union of the two natures in Christ without losing the impassible nature of God. Today, the understanding of God as impassible is no longer absolute in light of present human suffering. To gain a better understanding …
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Radical Evil and Responsibility in Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophical Anthropology
<p>In this dissertation, the notion of moral responsibility is employed to clarify the Kantian idea of radical evil in relation to Paul Ricoeur’s understanding of the self as becoming. Despite the determined regularity of the natural world, Kant posits a human freedom that can be understood along …
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