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Grammatical thomism – an introduction International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Filippo Casati, Simon Hewitt
In this short introductory article the guest editors discuss the reason for this special issue on Grammatical Thomism. Both parts of ‘grammatical thomism’ receive conceptual clarification. Issues a...
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Does the ‘problem of evil’ rest on a mistake? International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Brian Davies
Philosophers discuss what they call the philosophical ‘problem of evil’ while sometimes making two assumptions. The first is that ‘God is good’ means that God is morally good. The second is that th...
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Evil as privative: a McCabian defence International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Anastasia Phillipa Scrutton
Not all theists who are members of the Abrahamic faiths will sign up to a particular metaphysics of evil: some may be sceptical theists, and others may be uninterested in metaphysical questions alt...
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McCabe and Davies on God as not being a moral agent International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Roger Pouivet
A large part of the contemporary philosophy of religion concerns the so-called ‘problem of evil’. It is difficult to see how pain and wickedness, and all the calamities that afflict our poor world,...
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Grammatical thomism and how (not) to speak about God International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Daniel Soars
I argue that grammatical thomism helps to clarify certain problems in philosophical theology by focusing attention on the parameters of coherent God-talk. By drawing on figures like David Burrell, ...
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Nothing is hidden: nonsense and the revelation of limits International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Austin C. Kopack
In this article, I aim to raise questions for natural theology by casting doubt on the intelligibility of absolute limit concepts, like ‘reality’, through comparing the reception of Wittgenstein by...
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Reading Aquinas with David Burrell, CSC: how Lonergan’s exegesis and method open a way to Grammatical Thomism International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Matthew Dunch
Though a central figure in Grammatical Thomism, David Burrell, CSC’s work is also deeply influenced by his teacher Bernard Lonergan, SJ. This paper articulates a twofold influence of Lonergan on Bu...
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Nietzsche’s holy jest: the ambivalence of laughter in thus spoke zarathustra International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Nicholas E Low
This paper offers an interpretation of Thus Spoke Zarathustra as Nietzsche’s attempt to write a ‘holy book’ that sanctifies laughter. I compare two important scenes, that of the jester and ropedanc...
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Vicarious religious ordinance: forcing your faith on the unsuspecting International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Thomas J. Spiegel
This paper gives a first theoretical formulation to a religious phenomenon which has not received much attention in philosophical discourse so far despite appearing in different highly heterogeneou...
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Should moral commitments be articulated? An introduction International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Ariën Voogt, Petruschka Schaafsma
This Special Issue questions a basic assumption in thinking about morality: the idea that the explicit articulation of moral commitments that usually remain implicit is the basis par excellence for...
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Interruption that liberates to love. On the positive potential of the ‘paradox of ethics’ International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Petruschka Schaafsma
In this contribution, I take Nicholas Adams’ discussion of the paradox of ethics as an occasion to further explore our present moral situation and the possibilities of ethics in it. This situation ...
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Obstacles to moral articulation in interreligious engagement International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Nicholas Adams
The purpose of this paper is to confront a well-known problem in interreligious engagement in European institutions, namely the tendency to exclude contributions that do not conform to certain Euro...
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Reply to my respondents International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Nicholas Adams
Five authors have written a response to my article ‘Obstacles to Moral Articulation in Interreligious Engagement’. I here summarise their responses and offer a thematically arranged response.
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‘Comprehended history’: Hegelian and Judaic conceptions of the embodiment of exile International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Terrin Winkel
This paper explores the structural similarities between Hegel’s conception of spirit and the Jewish medieval text, the Zohar’s, figuration of Shekhinah. The formal logic of spirit’s self-actualizat...
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From representation to power: the Bilderverbot reconsidered International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Beniamino Fortis
When considered in the field of aesthetics, the Bilderverbot (biblical ban on pictures) is received with a variety of attitudes ranging between the extremes of Kant’s praise and Hegel’s criticism. ...
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The Baader-Schelling controversy in Schelling’s Das System der Weltalter: Elohim as divine proxies International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Aleksandr Gaisin
This paper examines the controversy between Franz von Baader and Schelling as it takes place in Schelling’s lecture course Das System der Weltalter. This particular instance of their disagreement i...
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Taking God to court: Job’s deconstruction and resistance of dominant ideology International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Ilse Swart, Yasir Saleem
Using poststructural criticism, we explore how the book of Job deconstructs the deed/consequence nexus that stands at the core of the Hebrew Bible’s theological framework – i.e. the doctrine of rew...
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The epistemology of spirit beliefs International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Shandon L. Guthrie
Published in International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (Vol. 84, No. 3-4, 2023)
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Loving the imageless: Descartes on the sensuous love of God International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Zachary Agoff
Descartes claims that we can love God sensuously. However, it is prima facie unclear how this is possible, given that he is also committed to the impossibility of sensing or imagining God. In this ...
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The dialectic of articulation: a Hegelian response to Adams International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Ariën Voogt
This article responds to Nicholas Adams by exploring the affinities between his account and Hegel, with a particular focus on the dialectic of articulation. They seem to agree on the undermining ef...
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Perfect imperfection: articulation in moral formation International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Dominique A. Gosewisch
In response to Adam’s concern that when one tries to articulate a moral commitment, the commitment is ‘falsified,’ I examine the importance of a particular articulation in the process of moral deve...
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Commitment and reflection in moral life International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Rob Compaijen
On the view that Nicholas Adams advocates in ‘Alternatives to Moral Common Ground’, ethics is complicit in undermining the commitments that constitute our moral lives, because by forcing us to arti...
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Løgstrup, Knud E. Controverting Kierkegaard International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Michiel Herman
Published in International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (Vol. 84, No. 3-4, 2023)
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Thinking with Walter Benjamin on language and Scriptural Reasoning International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Sophia Höff
Nicholas Adams argues that one should not force the articulation of moral common ground as this might lead to a distortion or collapse of what is being articulated. Instead, one should strive for a...
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‘Let’s Bless our father, Let’s adore God’: the nature of God in the prayers and hymns to God of the French Revolutionary deists International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-27 Joseph Waligore
While many scholars have realized that the Enlightenment period was much more religious than previously thought, the deists are still seen as basically secular figures who believed in a distant and...
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Agnosticism and eschatological hope: Allard Pierson and hope beyond the moment of not-knowing International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-17 Sabine Wolsink
ABSTRACT Hope beyond certainty is a significant element in contemporary theological discourse after the death of God. This relation between hope and uncertainty is not new. In the nineteenth century, a growing number of intellectuals started to call themselves agnostic, but did not always end up in scepticism and nihilism. On the contrary, new ways to search for meaning and fulfilment in life beyond
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Weizsäcker, Viktor von. Am Anfang Schuf Gott Himmel und Erde. Grundfragen der Naturphilosophie International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Michiel Herman
Published in International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (Vol. 84, No. 2, 2023)
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To live means to read: Agamben’s messianism as an archaeological inquiry International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Georgy Layus
ABSTRACT This article aims to elucidate the relationship between Agamben’s notion of messianism and his project of philosophical archaeology. Whereas the former relates to political and ethical aspects of Agamben’s philosophy, the latter belongs to the domain of methodology of philosophical research itself. The main thesis of the paper argues that these two components rely on each other and constitute
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Faith, science, and the wager for reality: Meillassoux and Ricœur on post-Kantian realism International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Barnabas Aspray
ABSTRACT This article compares two attempts to return to realism after Kant’s ‘Copernican Revolution’. Quentin Meillassoux, representing the ‘speculative realism’ school, rejects both Kantian and post-Kantian idealism in favour of a materialism based on the epistemology of the modern sciences. But Meillassoux is unaware of the element of choice in his philosophical position, and he does not solve the
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Formative encounters with the other: examining the structural differences between Bonhoeffer and Levinas International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Christopher J. King
ABSTRACT In this paper, I offer an account of the structural differences, neglected in the literature, between Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Emmanuel Levinas, showing how Bonhoeffer’s account of persons and responsibility is differentiated through creation, fall, and redemption, whereas Levinas’s account of ethical selfhood offers itself as a kind of transcendental account of persons in which the self is
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Semantics of divine names: Tabatabai’s principle of ‘focal meaning’ and Burrell’s grammar of God-talk International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Javad Taheri
ABSTRACT In the present paper, I investigate the ways in which the grammar of God-talk in David B. Burrell’s philosophical theology comes to meet Muhammad Husiyn-i Tabatabai’s account of divine names, which has been developed in his theory of religious language. I begin the first part of the paper by introducing Tabatabai’s innovative articulation of the concept of Mental Construct and its relevance
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Hegel’s vanity. Schelling’s early critique of absolute idealism International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Juan José Rodríguez
ABSTRACT In this article, we present for the first time Schelling’s early critique of absolute idealism within his middle metaphysics (1804–1820), which has great relevance and influence on the subsequent course of German philosophy, and, more broadly considered, on later systematic thinking about the categories of unity and duality. We aim to show how Schelling defends a form of metaphysical duality
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Sisters in Arms: an Introduction International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Cornelia Richter
ABSTRACT In this short introductory article the origin of this special issue in a Cambridge conference in 2019 is briefly sketched. Moreover, the specific approach which the organizers wanted to highlight is elucidated. Also, a preview is offered of the various contributions to this special issue.
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Fiction and the death of god: narrative, theology and moral philosophy in Victorian fiction International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-12 David Jasper
ABSTRACT The novelist is not a theologian or a philosopher, but within the enclosed world of Victorian fiction the matter of theology and the nature of good and evil are examined after the disappearance of God. In the fiction of Dickens, this contention is explored together with the responsibility of the reader as stories are told. While theology may sometimes hamper the reader of fiction, in Victorian
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Can fictionalists have a genuine emotional response to religious discourse? International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Dr Jessica Eastwood
ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to suggest that the fictionalist’s emotions toward religious discourse could be better supported than the current literature allows. By ‘fictionalist’ I mean those of whom interpret religious discourse as useful fiction. The threefold structure of the article will argue that: (1) the concept of aliefs has been falsely equated with the concept of imagining, (2)
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Does living Christianity support personhood theism? International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Simon Hewitt
ABSTRACT Personhood theism is the view that God exists and is a person. It is often claimed that, whatever conclusions might be reached abstractly by philosophers and theologians, Christianity as lived out practically embodies belief in personhood theism. In this article, I critically examine this claim and argue that Christian prayer and liturgical practice does not in fact embody this belief and
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Intuition: A potential life-raft for Philosophy and Theology? International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Jamie L. Howard
ABSTRACT The empirical turn has created an undercurrent of scrutiny regarding the relevance of disciplines such as philosophy and theology due to assumptions about the limitations of their epistemology. This article seeks to recognize that disciplines that are lauded as most relevant due to their reliance on empiricism as their main form of epistemology often rely upon intuition for making decisions
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Resilience – Its connections to vulnerability and crisis from analytic and phenomenological perspectives International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Thiemo Breyer
ABSTRACT The concepts of resilience and vulnerability have experienced an enormous upswing over the past years in different fields of inquiry. While vulnerability has played an eminent role in sociology, feminist studies, theology, and philosophy for some time, resilience has recently become increasingly important. Several high-ranking international academic alliances have been formed, which conduct
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Philosophical implications in psychological concepts regarding powerlessness and enhancement International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Susanne Heine
ABSTRACT Therapeutic practice is based on theories displaying different profiles, which imply philosophical traits. My main concern is to discover these traits, in my eyes a neglected issue. The question of what sort of psychology helps for enhancement also depends on the inherent philosophical approach, including an idea about human nature. I try to identify philosophical features in two main psychological
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Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther's World and Legacy International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Marietta Kosma
Published in International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (Vol. 84, No. 1, 2023)
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Are you praying to a videogame God? Some theological and philosophical implications of the simulation hypothesis International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Sanford L. Drob
ABSTRACT The hypothesis that we may be living in a digital simulation is utilized as a ‘thought experiment’ to help clarify important questions in theology and philosophy, including the nature of God, the significance and importance of an afterlife, and the ultimate nature of reality. It is argued that a consideration of the simulation hypothesis renders problematic traditional conceptions of a personal
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(Im)pure bodies and the Body of Christ: Judith Butler and Bruno Latour on (im)purity and the implications for contemporary Eucharistic participation International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Whitney Harper
ABSTRACT Recent discussions about Eucharistic practice in the United States have received increased public attention with stories of pro-life politicians being excluded from participation. In this practice of exclusion, there is a depiction of protecting the Eucharist from impurity, with the priests citing the pro-life framework as the basis for inclusion. Using this site for reflection, this article
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Modern Virtue: Mary Wollstonecraft and a Tradition of Dissent International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Anne Guillard
Published in International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (Vol. 84, No. 1, 2023)
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Can rational choice explain hope and patience? Frustration and bitterness in The Book of Job International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Elias L. Khalil
ABSTRACT Can rational choice theory justify hope and patience in dealing with calamities such as financial collapse or terminal illness? The Book of Job is a good entry-point. Three friends of Job counsel him to avoid hopelessness and bitterness arising from frustration regarding calamities. They do so on non-rational grounds. They argue that Job should ignore the evidence and instead blindly uphold
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The European Reception of John D. Caputo’s Thought: Radicalizing Theology International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Colby Dickinson
Published in International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (Vol. 84, No. 1, 2023)
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Mystery and nothingness: the christian conception of call in the perspective of Jean-Paul Sartre International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-26 J.W. Olson
ABSTRACT This essay explores the possibility for a phenomenology of Christian vocational calling through conversation with Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential-ontology. By demonstrating how Sartre’s account of nothingness comports with a Rahnerian understanding of God as absolute mystery and how Sartre’s account of bad faith further opens up an understanding of ontological self-identity as a turn away from
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Faith, power, and philosophy: divine-human interaction reclaimed International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Paul K. Moser
ABSTRACT Many philosophers and theologians try to add credibility to Christian faith by means of philosophical arguments and explanations. There are two main ways to pursue this aim, and one way is arguably more defensible than the other, at least from the perspective of the apostle Paul. Philosophers and theologians who hold that Paul has a contribution to make in this area should consider the relative
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Postsecular political and fundamental theology: appropriating ‘the event’ of revelation International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Craig A. Baron
ABSTRACT This paper is an analysis of John Caputo’s philosophical interpretation of ‘the event’ as a form of revelation with specific reference to political theology and in dialogue with the theological notion of ‘interruption’ by the fundamental theologian Lieven Boeve. Following Charles Taylor’s interpretation of the post-secular, the argument is that Boeve’s ‘radical hermeneutics of religion’ is
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Apophatic theology as a resource for eco-theology International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Iris Veerbeek, Peter-Ben Smit
ABSTRACT This essay explores the potential for eco-theology as a part of the (Christian) theological tradition that, so far, has only been analyzed to a limited extent with regard to what it might contribute to forms of theology that further more sustainable forms of humankind’s (co-)inhabitation of the world: the tradition of apophatic theology. The question is: ‘can dimensions of the apophatic tradition
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Freud’s Moses and Fromm’s Freud: Erich Fromm’s silence on Freud’s Moses – a silence of negation or a silence of consent? International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Ronen Pinkas
ABSTRACT In 1939 Sigmund Freud published his latest book, Moses and Monotheism, which is his most unusual and problematic work. In Moses Freud offers four groundbreaking claims in regard to the biblical story: [a] Moses was an Egyptian [b] The origin of monotheism is not Judaism [c] Moses was murdered by the Jews [d] The murder sparked a constant sense of unconscious guilt, which eventually contributed
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The concepts of the sublime and the saturated phenomenon in Immanuel Kant and Jean-Luc Marion: a systematic comparison based on their philosophical origins International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Andrzej Karpinski
ABSTRACT This paper is a systematic comparison between two well–known and theologically relevant concepts – the sublime as developed in Kant’s third Critique, and Marion’s saturated phenomenon. Although it discusses the significant and apparent similarities between them, it also criticizes Marion’s identification of the sublime as a possible example of a saturated phenomenon. This is primarily because
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Does the sovereign exist? Robert Musil’s political theology International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Zoltán Balázs
ABSTRACT The paper discusses a possible political theological interpretation of arguments developed in Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities. What emerges is that Musil (or his characters) pose a fundamental challenge to the possibility of any real analogy between God and the political sovereign, as suggested by Carl Schmitt. At stake is Austria as a yet-to-be-born modern sovereign. However, the
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Archaeological discourses and the building of our world: an essay on philosophy and theology International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Martin Grassi
ABSTRACT Theology and philosophy, as archaeo-logical discourses, share the same calling to ground human experience in giving our life-world a fundamental meaning. Thus, they tend to confuse with each other. However, I argue, whereas theology’s discourse is a constructive one, as it performs the ultimate meaning of the world by an axiomatic and paradigmatic analogical predication of what God is, philosophy
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The history and future of philosophy’s relationship with theology International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Lydia Schumacher
ABSTRACT The Middle Ages are often described as a period when there was no stark separation between theology and philosophy. This article will qualify that characterisation, highlighting the inter-dependent relationship medieval thinkers often associated with theology and philosophy, which respectively considered the nature of God and things other than God, which nonetheless find their source and purpose
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Experiences of powerlessness and the limits of control in healthcare International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-10-29 David Batho
ABSTRACT To what extent are experiences of powerlessness explained as involving a loss of control, and to what extent are attempts to increase patients’ control suitable as means of addressing these experiences? In this paper, I present some findings from a recent project in the phenomenology of powerlessness to argue that in response to experiences of powerlessness, the ideal of control has limited
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Giving up on knowing and loving oneself: Anders Nygren, Hannah Arendt, and Augustine International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Torbjörn Gustafsson Chorell
ABSTRACT Anders Nygren’s and Hannah Arendt’s critical reading of Augustine’s concept of love had its point of departure in a fundamental skepticism towards the possibility of knowing oneself. Nygren defended the need to give up the search for the ego in order to enter a fellowship with God, whereas Arendt’s turn toward the world necessitated a critical evaluation of self-love and the search for inner
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The affinity between artistic creation in Heidegger and divine creation in Schelling International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Yu Xia
ABSTRACT The majority of the contemporary literature on Schelling and Heidegger focuses on the direct connection between the two philosophers – Heidegger’s engagement with Schelling’s Freedom essay. This paper, however, explores an implicit link between them on the topic of creation by reading Schelling’s Ages of the World alongside Heidegger’s ‘The Origin of the Work of Art’. It brings God’s creation
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Iris Murdoch between buddhism and christianity: moral change, conceptual loss/recovery, unselfing International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Ondřej Beran, Kai Marchal
ABSTRACT The article discusses Iris Murdoch’s philosophical relationship to Buddhism. First, we argue that Murdoch was not, and did not identify herself as, a Buddhist. Then we suggest caution regarding Murdoch’s interpretations of Buddhism. On the one hand, she applies the limited viewpoint of her era. On the other hand, her approach is motivated by insights tracing affinities between Buddhism and
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Kierkegaard on the grace that nature did not know it needed International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Lee C. Barrett
ABSTRACT Kierkegaard’s attitude toward the family of issues usually associated with the rubric ‘nature and grace’ has long been disputed by his interpreters. Some of have seen him as a proponent of the ‘grace perfects nature’ position while others have viewed him as a radical bifurcator of nature and grace. Actually, Kierkegaard’s treatment of these issues is more nuanced. He does propose that human
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Theories of multiplicity: philosophical and theological conceptions of material and metaphysical entanglement International Journal of Philosophy and Theology (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-09-04 Gabriel C. Crooks
ABSTRACT Philosophical and theological treatments of difference and relation are often limited to traditional discursive boundaries of substance metaphysics and transcendent causality. Eschewing the historic desire to categorize substance and doctrinal investments in cosmological mechanism, multiplicity theory experiments with immanent and relational ontologies that are materially attentive and immersed