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The Reign of God constitutes the first detailed and systematic
critical engagement with Oliver O’Donovan’s political theology.
It argues that O’Donovan’s theological account of political
authority is not tenable on the basis of exegetical and
methodological problems. The book goes on to demonstrate a way to
refine O’Donovan’s theology of political authority by
incorporating insights from his earlier work in moral theology.
This can provide a cogent basis for thinking that the Christ-event
redeems the natural political authority embedded in the created
order and inaugurates its new historical bene esse in the form of
Christian liberalism.
Middle Platonism explained how a transcendent principle could
relate to the material world by positing an intermediary, modeled
after the Stoic active cause, that mediated the supreme principle's
influence to the world while preserving its transcendence. Having
similar concerns as Middle Platonism, Hellenistic Jewish
sapientialism, early Christianity, and Gnosticism appropriated this
intermediary doctrine as a means for understanding their
relationship to God and to the cosmos. However, these traditions
vary in their adaptation of this teaching due to their distinctive
understanding of creation and humanity's place therein. The Jewish
writings of Philo of Alexandria and Wisdom of Solomon espouse a
holistic ontology, combining a Platonic appreciation for noetic
reality with an ultimately positive view of creation and its place
in human fulfillment. The early Christians texts of 1 Cor 8:6, Col
1:15-20, Heb 1:2-3, and the prologue of John provide an
eschatological twist to this ontology when the intermediary figure
finds final expression in Jesus Christ. Contrarily, Poimandres (CH
1) and the Apocryphon of John, both associated with the traditional
rubric "Gnosticism", draw from Platonism to describe how creation
is antithetical to human nature and its transcendent source.
Millennium transcends boundaries - between epochs and regions, and
between disciplines. Like the Millennium-Jahrbuch, the journal
Millennium-Studien pursues an international, interdisciplinary
approach that cuts across historical eras. Composed of scholars
from various disciplines, the editorial and advisory boards welcome
submissions from a range of fields, including history, literary
studies, art history, theology, and philosophy. Millennium-Studien
also accepts manuscripts on Latin, Greek, and Oriental cultures. In
addition to offering a forum for monographs and edited collections
on diverse topics, Millennium-Studien publishes commentaries and
editions. The journal primary accepts publications in German and
English, but also considers submissions in French, Italian, and
Spanish. If you want to submit a manuscript please send it to the
editor from the most relevant discipline: Wolfram Brandes,
Frankfurt (Byzantine Studies and Early Middle Ages):
[email protected] Peter von Moellendorff, Giessen (Greek language
and literature): [email protected]
Dennis Pausch, Dresden (Latin language and literature):
[email protected] Rene Pfeilschifter, Wurzburg (Ancient
History): [email protected] Karla Pollmann,
Bristol (Early Christianity and Patristics):
[email protected] All manuscript submissions will be
reviewed by the editor and one outside specialist (single-blind
peer review).
This is a creative scholarly argument revisiting the substance,
understanding, and implications of the doctrine of creation ex
nihilo for contemporary theology and philosophy. Paul J. DeHart
examines the special mode of divine transcendence (God's infinity)
and investigates areas where accepting an infinite God presents
challenging questions to Christian theology. He discusses what
"saving knowledge" or "faith" would have to look like when
confronted by such an unlimited conception of deity, and ponders
how the doctrine of God's trinity can be brought into harmony with
radical notions of transcendence, as well as ways the doctrine of
creation itself is threatened when the radical otherness of the
creator's mind is not maintained. DeHart engages with a diverse
range of figures: Jean-Luc Marion, Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard,
Kathryn Tanner, John Milbank and Rowan Williams, to illustrate his
conviction. This volume deals with deep conceptual issues,
indicating that creation ex nihilo remains a lively topic in
contemporary theology.
Philosophical interest in forgiveness has seen a resurgence. This
interest reflects, at least in part, a large body of new work in
psychology, several newsworthy cases of institutional apology and
forgiveness, and intense and increased attention to the practices
surrounding responsibility, blame, and praise. In this book, some
of the world's leading philosophers present twelve entirely new
essays on forgiveness. Some contributors have been writing about
forgiveness for decades. Others have taken the opportunity here to
develop their thinking about forgiveness they broached in other
work. For some contributors, this is their first time writing on
forgiveness. While all the contributions address core questions
about the nature and norms of forgiveness, they also collectively
break new ground by raising entirely new questions, offering
original proposals and arguments, and making connections to the
topics of free will, moral responsibility, collective wrongdoing,
apology, religion, and our emotions.
G-Notes is a 40 day devotional. It is written for both the New
Christian and the Mature Christian. In G-Notes you will find many,
many scripture passages and their true meanings. It is sold in its
Theological foundation and its plain English is easy to read and
understand.
The book '... should be assured of the attention of the many on
both sides of the Atlantic who are fascinated by this subject.'
John Hick
This volume is a call to re-examine assumptions about what care is
and how it be practised. Rather than another demand for radical
reform, it makes the case for thinking clearly and critically. It
urges people living with HIV to become full partners in designing
and implementing their own care and for caregivers to accept them
in this role.
The interactions of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities
through the centuries have often been hostile and sometimes
violent. Today a new 'trialogue' between them is developing in
several parts of the world. One of the most ambitious ventures so
far of this kind took place recently in California and produced
this set of exploratory papers and responses. The subjects are the
concepts of God in the three traditions, their attitudes to the
material world, and their understandings of human life and history.
The discussions were frank and realistic but at the same time
hopeful.
This work, the first of its kind, describes all the aspects of the
Bible revolution in Jewish history in the last two hundred years,
as well as the emergence of the new biblical culture. It describes
the circumstances and processes that turned Holy Scripture into the
Book of Books and into the history of the biblical period and of
the people - the Jewish people. It deals with the encounter of the
Jews with modern biblical criticism and the archaeological research
of the Ancient Near East and with contemporary archaeology. The
middle section discusses the extensive involvement of educated Jews
in the Bible-Babel polemic at the start of the twentieth century,
which it treats as a typological event. The last section describes
at length various aspects of the key status assigned to the Bible
in the new Jewish culture in Europe, and particularly in modern
Jewish Palestine, as a "guide to life" in education, culture and
politics, as well as part of the attempt to create a new Jewish
man, and as a source of inspiration for various creative arts.
This book opens a new research field in Balkan contextual theology.
By embracing culturally rich traditions of the Western Balkans as
its starting point, it explores their existential and theological
bearings. Placed at the crossroads of civilisations and religions,
this region has witnessed some of the worst atrocities of the 20th
century. At the same time, it has produced unique textures of
inter-cultural life. The volume addresses some of the most poignant
phenomena endemic to the region, such as sevdalinka music, intimate
forms of neighborhood, archetypes of 'sacred warriors,' the
experience of democratic jet lag, collective melancholy, and
intergenerational trauma. As the first book of this nature, it aims
to encourage further development of contextual theological thinking
in the region and promote its international reception.
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