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John Gill (1697-1771) and the Eternally Begotten Word of God Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Jonathan E. Swan
Abstract The Baptist pastor John Gill (1697-1771) believed the doctrine of eternal generation was vital to the Christian faith. While he firmly held to the doctrine of eternal generation, counting it as indispensable for grounding distinctions between the persons within the Godhead, he denied that the divine essence is communicated in generation. Generation, for Gill, entailed only the begetting of
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A Forgotten Debate? Trinitarianism & the Particular Baptists Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Michael A. G. Haykin
Abstract This article sets the stage for the essays in this issue of Perichoresis on the Trinitarianism of the Particular Baptists in the British Isles and Ireland between the 1640s and 1840s. It argues that this Trinitarianism is part of a larger debate about the Trinity that has been greatly forgotten in the scholarly history of this doctrine. It also touches on the way that Baptist theologians like
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‘Not the Same God’: Alexander Carson (1776-1844) and the Ulster Trinitarian Controversy Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Ian Hugh Clary
Abstract The impact of the Salters’ Hall Synod went beyond its immediate context in England and spread throughout the British Isles and into Ireland. Ulster Presbyterianism was wracked with debate over confessional subscriptionism and Unitarianism. Two key interlocutors in this debate were the Unitarian theologian William Hamilton Drummond and his orthodox counterpart, Alexander Carson. This essay
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The Universal Tradition and the Clear Meaning of Scripture: Benjamin Keach’s Understanding of the Trinity Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Jonathan W. Arnold
Abstract Leading Particular Baptist theologian Benjamin Keach (1640-1704) came to prominence just as an antitrinitarian theology native to England gained a stronghold. What had previously been deemed off-limits by the Establishment became a commonplace by the end of the seventeenth century based on a strict biblicism that eschewed the extra-biblical language of trinitarian orthodoxy. As one who considered
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‘Three Subsistences … One Substance’: the Doctrine of the Trinity in the Second London Confession Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Steve Weaver
Abstract This article examines the doctrine of the Trinity taught in the Second London Confession of Faith of 1677. It begins by examining a trinitarian controversy among the Particular Baptists of England in the mid-seventeenth century. After outlining the doctrinal deviations of Thomas Collier, the article proceeds to describe some of the responses to Collier from the Particular Baptist community
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The Salters’ Hall Controversy: Heresy, Subscription, or Both? Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Jesse F. Owens
Abstract The Salters’ Hall controversy (1719) was a watershed event in the history of English Dissent. Some historians have interpreted the controversy as an early sign of the theological demise of the English General Baptists and the English Presbyterians. Conversely, the controversy has also been used to demonstrate the theological steadfastness of the English Particular Baptists and Congregationalist
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Theology of Hope Amidst the World’s Fears Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Sonny Eli Zaluchu
Abstract Fear is a social phenomenon that develops in people facing a crisis, such as a pandemic. For instance, the entire world is currently exposed to Covid-19 pandemic, causing great fear. In the Bible, Jesus’ disciples were terrified of sinking in their boat during a storm. Although these two scenarios are different, the response is the same. Fear produces stress and anxiety disorders when not
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Molinism’s Value in Easing Mistrust of God Stemming From Suffering and Divine Silence Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Zachary Breitenbach
Abstract One issue that sometimes produces mistrust of God in the life of a Christian is God’s perceived silence when He allows a trial to enter the believer’s life—especially when the believer has been faithfully praying that God would not allow it and there is no evident reason why God would not answer this prayer. This paper examines the nature of trust and some key reasons why it is difficult to
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On Roach’s Presuppositional Response to Licona’s New Historiographical Approach Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Jacobus Erasmus,Michael R. Licona
Abstract In a recent article, William C. Roach (2019) offers a presuppositional critique, which is inspired by Carl F. H. Henry, of Michael R. Licona’s (2010) so-called New Historiographical Approach (NHA) to defending the resurrection. More precisely, Roach attempts to defend six key theses, namely, that (1) the NHA is an evidentialist approach, (2) the NHA is a deductive argument, (3) the NHA is
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The Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53–8:11): Jesus’ Answer, an Offer of Life to Suffering Women Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Annelien Rabie-Boshoff
Abstract This article explores a probable motivation for the insertion of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53–8:11) in the Gospel of John in consideration of the motive of ‘living/life’ used by the gospel writer. Using John 8:12 as the starting point of this investigation, the article focuses on the warning to the Israelites against idolatry with specific attention to the warning against worshiping the
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Nourishment in Paradise and After Resurrection: Double Creation According to Gregory of Nyssa Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Magdalena Marunová
Abstract Gregory of Nyssa (cca 335–cca 395), one of the three Cappadocian Fathers, introduces the creation of human beings on the basis of Genesis 1:26–27 and interprets these two biblical verses as a ‘double creation’—the first of which is ‘in the image of God’ (Genesis 1:26) and secondly as male or female (Genesis 1:27). His concept of ‘double creation’ is obviously inspired by Philo of Alexandria
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A Critical Examination of the Church’s Reception of Emperor Constantine’s Edict of Milan of AD 313 Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Jeremiah Mutie
Abstract Since its enactment in AD 313, the Edict of Milan (sometimes referred to as ‘the Edict of Toleration’), an edict that freed Christianity from empire-wide persecution, Constantine’s declaration has received a significant amount of attention within Christendom. Most of the discussion has centered on Constantine’s conversion, the precursor to the actual edict (whether the conversion was real
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Popper’s Paradox of Tolerance: An Examination of Segregated Muslim Neighbourhoods in Modern Britain Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Rumy Hasan
Abstract The twenty first century has witnessed a heightened interest in Muslim settlers in western democracies. In Britain, following the suicide bombings of 9/11 and particularly in the aftermath of the 7th July 2005 bombings in London, much of this focus has been on the threat of terror attacks emanating from radicalised Muslims. It is clearly the case that the same focus also applies to other west
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Why Much of the Liberal Left Can Now be Termed ‘Regressive’: Discourses on Trump, Immigration, and Islam Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Raphael Lataster,Rumy Hasan
Abstract We find much of the discourse from the soi disant progressive politicians, media and academy to be misinformed, hypocritical, and even regressive. This applies to discussions about politicians such as President Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, and especially concerns the issues of Islam and immigration. We argue that much of the contemporary liberal left appears to be more intolerant, more
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A Refutation of Several Muslim Apologetic Arguments and a Powerful Argument Against God’s Authorship of the Quran Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Raphael Lataster
Abstract Having spent many years researching the best apologetics Christian philosophers could offer, I recently started examining Muslim apologetics. Focussing on the arguments for the Islamic God’s existence by popular Muslim apologist Hamza Andreas Tzortzis, I conclude that they are terrible, and are not of the same quality as the best arguments for the truth of Christianity. Furthermore, I converted
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The Tolerant Society and its Enemies: Moral Relativism, Multiculturalism, and Islamism Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 T. M. Murray
Abstract In this paper, T. M. Murray defends a vision of liberal tolerance as grounding the common good. She critiques the discourse that Western liberalism amounts to ‘Islamophobia’ or ‘cultural imperialism’. She argues that liberal academics, in maintaining these narratives, contradict their own vaunted values and tacitly collude with religious hypocrisy and intolerance. She argues for a universal
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Islamism, Political Islam, and the Need for Critique Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Paul Cliteur
Abstract This article is about Islamism (or political Islam) as a challenge for contemporary liberal democracies. Islamism is portrayed as an ideology that favors one specific religion as supreme and that is a threat to freedom of speech. The author makes a plea for distinguishing a. the religion of Islam, b. Muslims as a group, and c. the political ideology of Islamism. Regarding the dangers of Islamism
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Doubting the Quran, the Hadith, and Muhammad’s Splitting of the Moon: A Probabilistic Refutation of One of Islam’s Most Striking Miraculous Claims Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Raphael Lataster
Abstract Having spent many years engaging with Christian claims about miracles, especially the purported resurrection of Jesus, I now shift attention to Islamic miracle claims, the most striking of which seems to me to be Muhammad’s alleged splitting of the moon. I explain, in a Bayesian fashion, why this almost certainly did not happen.
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‘Begin at the Beginning’: Method in Christological Anthropology and T. F. Torrance’s Fallen Human Nature View Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Christopher G. Woznicki
Abstract This essay argues that unlike many contemporary christological anthropologies that begin with protology or eschatology, T. F. Torrance’s christological anthropology begins with the incarnate Christ as he confronts us in the midst of God’s redemptive act. This approach is labeled Soteriological-Christological Anthropology. Torrance himself does not develop this anthropological method in a sustained
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Pairing Problems: Causal and Christological Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Kevin W. Wong
Abstract Trenton Merricks has objected to dualist conceptions of the Incarnation in a similar way to Jaegwon Kim’s pairing problem. On the original pairing problem, so argues Kim, we lack a pairing relationship between bodies and souls such that body A is causally paired with soul A and not soul B. Merricks, on the other hand, argues that whatever relations dualists propose that do pair bodies and
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The Body in Jesus’ Tomb as a Hylemorphic Puzzle: a Response to Jaeger and Sienkiewicz and an Application for Christological Anthropology Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 James T. Turner
Abstract In a recent paper, Andrew Jaeger and Jeremy Sienkiewicz attempt to provide an answer consistent with Thomistic hylemorphism for the following question: what was the ontological status of Christ’s dead body? Answering this question has christological anthropological import: whatever one says about Christ’s dead body, has implications for what one can say about any human’s dead body. Jaeger
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The Elements of a Christological Anthropology Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Rowan Williams
Abstract Human beings exist in one of two sorts of solidarity, according to St. Paul—the solidarity of sin or alienation ‘in Adam’ or the solidarity of life-giving mutuality in Christ. There can be no Christian theology of the human that is not a theology of communion—which converges with the conviction that our creation in the divine image is creation in relationality. The image of God is not a portion
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Colin E. Gunton’s Christological Anthropology: Humanity’s Relationships in the Image of Christ Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Elaina R. Mair
Abstract The anthropology of Colin E. Gunton begins with the Trinity and specifically, the person of Christ. From trinitarian persons, Gunton deduces the ontological definition of what it means to be a person, that is, a being in relationship and in distinction, or ‘free relatedness’. To be a person is to be in the image of the personal God, which is christological language, for it is Christ who bears
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Did Jesus Need the Spirit? An Appeal for Pneumatic Christology to Inform Christological Anthropology Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Christa L. Mckirland
Abstract A central claim of the Christian faith is that Jesus is not only fully human (and fully God), but that he reveals true humanity to us. This requires that all of our anthropologies, in some way, ground themselves in Christology, providing a ‘Christological anthropology’. Consequently, any Christological anthropology requires some formulation of Christology proper. In light of this, the main
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The Defenders of Faith. The Correspondence Between Ferenc Balogh, Father of the New Orthodoxy Movement, and Eduard Böhl, Reformed Pietist Professor of Dogmatics from Vienna Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Teofil Kovács
Abstract The present study examines how two famous professors in Central Europe decided to network together in order to promote traditional Christian faith through New Orthodoxy of Debrecen and Reformed Pietist of Vienna which became the source of renewal in the Reformed Church of Hungary. Their correspondence bears a witness to the endeavour to train, teach and guide young students enabling them to
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An Encounter and Its Impact: The Visit of John R. Mott in Cluj-Napoca/Kolozsvár and His Impression Upon László Ravasz Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Árpád Kulcsár
Abstract In this paper I examine one of the effects of László Ravasz’s (1882-1975) theological thinking, former professor of Practical Theology at Protestant Theological Institute, Kolzosvár-Cluj-Napoca, namely the development of his spiritual life and its impact on his theological scientific position. Due to the limitations of the scope of this paper, I could present the less well-known views of Ravasz’s
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Revivalism, Bible Societies, and Tract Societies in the Kingdom of Hungary: A Multi-Ethnic, Multi-Cultural, and Multi-Denominational Work for Spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Ábraham Kovács
Abstract The current research paper seeks to investigate how Evangelicals and Pietist, the most fervent of Protestants sought to ‘educate’ the masses outside the educational framework of ecclesiastical and state structures within the Hungarian Kingdom. More specifically the study intends to offer a concise overview of the history of Protestants who spread the gospel through the distribution of affordable
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The Beginnings of Bible Mission of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Early Nineteenth Century Hungary Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Ottó Pecsuk
Abstract The paper examines the very beginnings of Bible Mission in Hungary within the Habsburg Empire in the first part of the nineteenth century. It divides the first thirty years into two major epochs: the one before Gottlieb August Wimmer, Lutheran pastor of Felsőlövő (Oberschützen) and agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS) and the one characterized by his work until the revolution
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The Ambiguous Beginnings of the Modern Mission Movements in the Reformed Church of Transylvania Between 1895 and 1918 Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Levente Horváth
Abstract This study looks at the ways how the Reformed Church encountered the new modern mission movement in Transylvania with the arrival of Dr. Béla Kenessey and Dr. István Kecskeméthy to the newly established Reformed Theological Seminary at Cluj in 1895. By the time being, some theologians expressed grave concerns about the dangers of theological liberalism to the Confessions. The paper argues
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Academic Relations Between Debrecen and Vienna: Exemplified By Eduard Böhl and Sándor Venetianer Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Karl Schwarz
Abstract The study seeks to investigate the relationship between Theological Faculty of Debrecen Reformed College and the Protestant Theological Faculty at University of Vienna. The counter-movements against modern, or so-called liberal theology brought Eduard Böhl from Vienna and Ferenc Balogh into a shared theological camp. The former followed the German-Dutch confessionalist Pietist of Reformed
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The Contributions of the Council of Trent to the Catholic Reformation Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Robert Fastiggi
Abstract This article begins by examining what is meant by the Catholic Reformation and how it relates to the other frequently used term, Counter–Reformation. It then discusses the different ways Catholics and Protestants in the early 16th century understood ecclesial reform. Next there is a consideration of the call for a general or ecumenical council to resolve the differences between the Catholics
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St. Robert Bellarmine, Conciliarism, and the Limits of Papal Power Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Christian D. Washburn
Abstract This article will examine Bellarmine’s first anti–conciliarist work, found in the Disputationes de controversiis Christianae fidei adversus huius temporis haereticos, emphasizing his theological treatment of the pope’s authority relative to the authority of a council and his repudiation of conciliarism. Bellarmine sees the conciliarists as attacking the divinely instituted Petrine structure
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A ‘Chief Error’ of Protestant Soteriology: Sin in the Justified and Early Modern Catholic Theology Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Matthew T. Gaetano
Abstract Catholic theologians after Trent saw the Protestant teaching about the remnants of original sin in the justified as one of the ‘chief ’ errors of Protestant soteriology. Martin Luther, John Calvin, Martin Chemnitz, and many Protestant theologians believed that a view of concupiscence as sinful, strictly speaking, did away with any reliance on good works. This conviction also clarified the
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Original Sin, Preterition, and its Implications for Evangelization Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Eduardo J. Echeverria
Abstract In this paper, I examine the four elements—universal sinfulness, natural sinfulness, inherited sinfulness, and Adamic sinfulness—of the doctrine of original sin in both the Reformed confessions, with particular attention to the Canons of Dort, and the Council of Trent’s definitive teaching on Original Sin. I give particular attention to the question regarding how all men are implicated in
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Francisco Suárez’s Encounter with Calvin Over Human Freedom Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Victor M. Salas
Abstract This essay explores Francisco Suárez’s account of the nature of human free will. To that end, Suárez’s engagement with John Calvin is considered so as to place the Jesuit’s account into greater relief. The conclusion of this study will reveal that, for Suárez, the human will’s freedom of self–determination is both caused by God and consists in its own indifference regarding the power to act
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Philip Neri and Charles Borromeo as Models of Catholic Reform Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Charles D. Fox
Abstract In the face of the external challenge of the Protestant Reformation, as well as the internal threat of spiritual, moral, and disciplinary corruption, two Catholic saints worked tirelessly to reform the Church in different but complementary ways. Philip Neri (1515–95) and Charles Borromeo (1538–84) led the Catholic Counter–Reformation during the middle–to–late sixteenth century, placing their
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The Problem of Bad Popes: The Argument from Conspicuous Corruption Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Jerry L. Walls
Abstract The fact that a number of popes have been bad in the sense that they did not even meet minimal standards of moral integrity and sincere piety poses a serious problem for Roman Catholicism. After surveying a gallery of these infamous popes, I hone in more exactly on just what the problem is. I then argue that the problem remains on both a weak providence view and a strong providence view. According
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Mary and Fátima: A Modest C-Inductive Argument for Catholicism Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Tyler Dalton Mcnabb, Joseph E. Blado
Abstract C-Inductive arguments are arguments that increase the probability of a hypothesis. In this paper, we offer a C-Inductive argument for the Roman Catholic hypothesis. We specifically argue that one would expect the Miracle of Fátima on Roman Catholicism more so than on alternative hypotheses. Since our argument draws on confirmation theory, we first give a primer for how confirmation theory
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An Evangelical Protestant’s Reflections on Roman Catholic Mariology Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Benjamin H. Arbour
Abstract I count myself privileged to respond to Kenneth Collins and Jerry Walls recent book on Roman Catholicism. I live in Fort Worth, TX, and I am a member of Wedgwood Baptist Church, which is one of more than 40,000 churches that together comprise the Southern Baptist Convention. I mention this so readers will know that my comments come from a conservative Evangelical Protestant perspective, and
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Assessing Papal Probabilities: A Reply to Joseph E. Blado Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Jerry L. Walls
Abstract Joseph Blado critiqued my probabilistic arguments against Roman papal doctrines by deploying probability arguments, particularly Bayesian arguments, in favor of the papacy. He contends that there are good C-inductive arguments for papal doctrine that, taken together, add up to a good P-inductive argument. I argue that his inductive arguments fail, and moreover that there are three good C-inductive
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On Reading the Bible as Scripture, Encountering the Church Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Steven Nemes
Abstract As an exercise in the ‘theology of disclosure’, the present essay proposes a kind of phenomenological analysis of the act of reading the Bible as Scripture with the goal of bringing to light the theoretical commitments which it implicitly demands. This sort of analysis can prove helpful for the continuing disputes among Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox insofar as it is relevant for one
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Eastern Orthodox Agreement and Disagreement with Kenneth Collins and Jerry Walls Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Gary Hartenburg
Abstract In their book, Roman but Not Catholic, Kenneth Collins and Jerry Walls make the case that certain beliefs central to the Roman Catholic faith are unreasonable. This article evaluates, from the point of view of Eastern Orthodoxy, some of the arguments Collins and Walls make. In particular, it argues first that Collins and Walls are correct to criticize John Henry Newman’s theory of the development
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The Eucharist and the Ministerial Priesthood a Reply to Kenneth Collins and Jerry Walls Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Patrick Lee
Abstract In chapters 9 and 10 of their book Roman but Not Catholic, Kenneth Collins and Jerry Walls criticize the Roman Catholic positions on the Eucharist as a sacrifice and on the ministerial priesthood. I reply to their historical and theological objections, and defend the belief that the Eucharistic sacrifice, the Mass, is a re-presentation, or making present, of Jesus’s redemptive sacrifice on
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Dramaturgical and Theological Issues Involved in Producing and Staging a Play in Jerusalem about the Disputation of Barcelona Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-08-01 Yael Valier
Abstract In the context of the launch of a new theater company whose mission is to bring entertaining theological content to audiences in and around Jerusalem, Roy Doliner’s Divine Right was chosen as the company’s first production. This play about the Disputation of Barcelona balances historical accuracy and creative dramatic content in a satisfying and intellectually honest portrayal of the events
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The Barcelona Disputation: Texts and Contexts Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-08-01 Nina Caputo
Abstract Scholars of Jewish history have paid consistent and devoted attention to the Barcelona Disputation of 1263. Records of this event preserve contemporary Jewish and Christian responses to the proceedings, which pitted Nahmanides, the most important exegete and teacher of the region, against a convert from Judaism to Christianity, took place in the royal court before an illustrious audience.
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De Pierre Le Vénérable À Eudes De Châteauroux: La Réception Du Talmud, Entre Hostilité Et Incompréhension Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-08-01 Amélia Lecousy
Abstract Cet article met en lumière la réception du Talmud parmi les érudits parisiens chrétiens entre 1140, avec la rédaction du Adversus judaeorum de Pierre le Vénérable, et 1248, la condamnation officielle par Eudes de Châteauroux. Avec la création des universités au XIIe siècle, la curiosité intellectuelle et la soif de savoir dirigent les théologiens chrétiens vers des textes non plus uniquement
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The Hebrew Sources of Tortosa’s Disputation Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-08-01 Francesco Bianchi
Abstract The Disputation or Cathechesis of Tortosa with its sixty-nine sessions (February 7, 1413-November 12, 1413) was the longest of the Jewish Christian encounters in the Middle Age. Stirred by the Avignonesian Pope Benedict XIII, Geronimo de Sancta Fide, olim Yehoshua ha-Lorki, summoned a group of Catalan and Aragonese rabbis to inform them that the Messiah was already came. Not only the Papal
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Nahmanides’ Astrological and Religious Thinking and the Views of the Contemporaneous Catalan Christian Sages Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-08-01 Esperança Valls-Pujol
Abstract This paper examines the astrological and religious thinking of Moshe ben Nahman (also known as Ramban or Nahmanides) and the intellectual connections in this field with two of the most outstanding Christian thinkers of his time, Ramon Llull and Arnau de Vilanova. Nahmanides, like many medieval scholars, admitted an astral influence, but he did not accept astrology as a divinatory science.
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Literatura De Controversia Religiosa Judío-Cristiana Medieval En Portugal (Siglos Xiii-Xv): Estado De La Cuestión. Discursos Y Motivaciones Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-08-01 Alice Tavares
Abstract The case study presented in this article is an analysis of Portuguese literary manuscripts which deal with religious Jewish controversies during the Middle Ages (13th to the 15th centuries). These documents came down to us through the subsequent centuries and are available in the Libraries of Portugal. The article is intended to make known variegated documents of religious controversies over
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Hearing Religious Music. The Subject-Object Relationship of the Listener and the Piece of Music in a Consumption Era Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Oane Reitsma
Abstract In a concert hall, the attitude of the audience focusses on the formalistic aspects of music. In religious rituals, music is a means of leading the hearer to a spiritual experience. What happens when music, meant originally for a liturgical purpose, is played in a concert setting? Gadamer shows, with his conception of Verwandlung ins Gebilde, that an art work is never static, but carries a
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Art and Religion as Invitation. An Exploration Based on John Dewey’s Theory of Experience and Imagination Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Hans Alma
Abstract In this essay, the relation between art and religion is explored using the concepts experience and imagination as understood by the American philosopher John Dewey. In Dewey’s view, experience involves both the experiencer and the experienced: it is a phenomenon of the in-between. When we are really touched by what we meet in interacting with our physical and social surroundings, experience
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Presence in Contemporary Religious Art Graham Sutherland and Antony Gormley Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Wessel Stoker
Abstract This article analyses the topic of presence in modern and contemporary religious art by means of the work of two artists. Graham Sutherland’s Christ in Glory (1951-1962) will be compared to the Buddhism-inspired works of Antony Gormley. Sutherlands Christ in Glory is intended to show Christ’s presence to the involved observer: the invisible Christ can become present through interaction with
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Holy Crisis. On the Problem that Espouses Modern Art to Modern Spirituality Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Marc De Kesel
Abstract Visual art owes its modernity from the crisis it fell into in the midst of the nineteenth century. Courbet’s call for realism questioned the foundation of the art of his time. The incapacity of the series of ‘-isms’ that followed to answer Courbet’s call, pointed to a crisis not only in art, but in the then emerging non-artistic visual culture in general. In fact, Courbet’s call questioned
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Art and Spirituality. Explored on the Levels of Experience, Meaning and Research Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Johan Goud
Abstract The area where literature, art, music, religion, spirituality, and philosophy split off from, run parallel to each other, and merge again is like a delta. This essay explores the complex interrelations between art and spirituality on three levels. First on the level of spiritual experience, exemplified by experiences of the art of still life (the painter Morandi, the poet Kopland). On the
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When Art is Religion and Vice Versa. Six Perspectives on the Relationship between Art and Religion Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Frank G. Bosman
Abstract In the discussion of religion and art, it is quite difficult to exactly define what makes art ‘religious’. In this article, the author suggest six different perspectives in which a work of art—any work of art—could be interpreted as ‘religious’, as an embodiment of the complex relationship between art and religion. These perspectives are not mutually exclusive: one and the same art work could
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The Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Body in the Theological Thought of Thomas Burnet Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Ciprian Simuţ
Abstract The issue of the resurrection of the body has given rise to a plethora of interpretations. There is a natural need to clarify such issues, since there cannot be a separation between faith in Christ and the resurrection of the body. The two go hand in hand, because one cannot go without the other. In the context of debates spawned by the need to understand, Thomas Burnet seems like a study
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Bodies in Late Romanticism: Two Perspectives Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Ramona Simuţ
Abstract One of the major themes of discussion in the art and especially the literature of the 18th and 19th centuries was the body rather than the soul. In the beginning this seemed to be the case mostly because of the natural processes related to the transforming events of maturation and death of the human body and mind. However, towards the end of the 18th century and well into the 19th century
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The Last Man and ‘The First Woman’: Unmanly Images of Unhuman Nature in Mary Shelley’s Ecocriticism Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Éva Antal
Abstract Mary Shelley in her writings relies on the romanticised notions of nature: in addition to its beauties, the sublime quality is highlighted in its overwhelming greatness. In her ecological fiction, The Last Man (1826), the dystopian view of man results in the presentation of the declining civilization and the catastrophic destruction of infested mankind. In the novel, all of the characters
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Substantial and Substantive Corporeality in the Body Discourses of Bhakti Poets Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Yadav Sumati
Abstract This paper studies the representation of human corporeal reality in the discourses of selected Bhakti poets of the late medieval period in India. Considering the historical background of the Bhakti movement and contemporary cultural milieu in which these mystic poets lived, their unique appropriation of the ancient concept of body is reviewed as revolutionary. The focus of the study is the
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The Historically Changing Notion of (Female Bodily) Proportion and Its Relevance to Literature Perichoresis (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Takayuki Yokota-Murakami
Abstract Futabatei Shimei (1864-1909) was an early modern Japanese novelist, translator, and critic. He wrote what is now generally conceived of as the first Japanese ‘modern’ novel, Drifting Clouds (1887-89). He translated works by Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Garshin, Gorky, and others. He also published a number of critical essays, treatises on literary theory, political papers, and so forth. His early