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Fleshly tabernacles : Milton and the incarnational poetics of revolutionary England
Proclaiming the Word -- Milton's incarnate reader -- Revolutionary incarnations and the metaphysics of abundance.
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Militarism and fear in a time of pandemic in the Philippines: Towards a theology of transgression
The pandemic was an opportunity for authoritarian regimes to intensify militarism and cultivate fear, resulting in the disablement of the most vulnerable in society. Fear dissipates when basic freedoms are at stake. People who once were afraid have learned to transgress, “to step across”, because they just had enough of the Duterte regime’s deception. In light of this context, I argue, like Michel Foucault, that transgression can be a positive notion and not opposed to transcendence. In fact, it belongs to a similar semantic cluster. An interruption can be viewed not as seeking attention, but rather as a cessation that aims for communion. Drawing from the lived experiences of persons with disabilities, I suggest a reversal of the negative perception of interruption to be incarnational, which can pave the way to a theology of transgression that is liberative. Transgression was originally linked to the divine, or rather, from this limit marked by the sacred, it opens the space where the divine functions (Foucault 1977:37).
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This article deals with the profound shifts that are taking place in light of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, in which humanity’s future is highly topical. The article engages Thomas Merton’s re-evaluation of Anselm’s Cur Homo Deo with Harari’s book Homo Deus (2015) and argues that, while we must take Harari’s views seriously, the future evolution of humanity is not the human god suggested by Harari, but that suggested by Merton, who argues that the incarnation shows God’s love for creation; shows Christ as the pattern of what it means to live a holy life, and, ultimately, shows the future of both the cosmos and humanity, where all is taken into the very heart of God. Harari views the future as the creation of a benevolent human god; Merton views the future as a place where all of creation is divinised.
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The incarnation : ecumenical studies in the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed A. D. 381
This book is a collection of papers from the conference of the International Academy of Religious Sciences held in Norwich in 1978. The theme is the Incarnation in relation to the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed. The book is an ecumenical contribution to theological discussion of a theme that has once again become a burning issue. Contributors include theologians from the Orthodox, the Roman Catholic, and the Anglican Churches as well as the Church of Scotland.
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Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain
This rich study takes Insular art on its own terms, revealing a distinctive and unorthodox theology that will inevitably change how scholars view the long arc of English piety and the English literary tradition.
Drawing on a wide range of critical methodologies, Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain treats this era as a “contact zone” of cultural clash and exchange, where Christianity encountered a rich amalgam of practices and attitudes, particularly regarding the sensible realm. Tiffany Beechy illustrates how local cultures, including the Irish learned tradition, received the “Word that was made flesh,” the central figure of Christian doctrine, in distinctive ways: the Word, for example, was verbal, related to words and signs, and was not at all ineffable. Likewise, the Word was often poetic—an enigma—and its powerful presence was not only hinted at (as St. Augustine would have it) but manifest in the mouth or on the page. Beechy examines how these Insular traditions received and expressed a distinctly iterable Incarnation. Often disavowed and condemned by orthodox authorities, this was in large part an implicit theology, expressed or embodied in form (such as art, compilation, or metaphor) rather than in treatises. Beechy demonstrates how these forms drew on various authorities especially important to Britain—Bede, Gregory the Great, and Isidore most prominent among them.
Beechy’s study provides a prehistory in the English literary tradition for the better-known experimental poetics of Middle English devotion. The book is unusual in the diversity of its primary material, which includes visual art, including the Book of Kells; obscure and often cursorily treated texts such as Adamnán’s De locis sanctis (“On the holy lands”); and the difficult esoterica of the wisdom tradition.
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THE PANDEMIC AND HOMILETICS 101: A REFLECTION
The global pandemic of COVID-19 across the year 2020 afforded pastors everywhere an opportunity to engage in some critical reflection on their homiletic practices. The dual challenges of no longer being able to preach to a physically present congregation and of preaching during a time of significant fear, stress, and sorrow revealed to many preachers aspects of preaching of which they had not previously been aware. This article suggests that some of what was discovered during this unusual season provides correctives for the way in which homiletics and preaching have been practised in many places and that some of these correctives should endure in the preaching life of the church long after the pandemic has passed.
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Logostalgia: Eschatology and the Sixth Extinction
What would it mean to give a theological account of mass extinction events? Taking into consideration new developments in extinction studies alongside the Greek tradition’s vocabulary for the created order, this article argues that an eschatology centered on the excessive Logoi of creaturely existence can allow anthropogenic mass extinction to register as a call for contemplative acknowledgment. The eschatology builds critically on the deep incarnation thesis of Niels Henrik Gregersen and the work of Christopher Southgate, arguing for an anthropocentricism that participates in the excessive redemptive work of the incarnate Logos.
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Did Paul think Christ was a pre-existent being?
Despite the scholarly consensus according to which, to the apostle Paul, Christ was a pre-existent being, that can hardly be considered the only possible interpretation of his thought. In this article, I propose a reading of six passages from his authentic letters in light of the hypothesis of adoptionist Christology. This work puts forward two considerations: on the one hand, arguing for an incarnation Christology imposes on the text a theology that was only later developed; on the other hand, whereas the perspective of incarnation raises contradictions with the overall Pauline thought, adoptionism provides a more consistent understanding of the same. Should this hypothesis be correct, it also presents a more plausible framework for the origin and evolution of the early Christian movement. encarnacionista impõe ao texto uma teologia que se desenvolveu apenas mais tarde; por outro lado, enquanto a perspetiva da encarnação parece apresentar contradições com o pensamento paulino, a da adoção providencia uma compreensão coerente do mesmo. Caso esta hipótese esteja correta, ela apresenta igualmente um enquadramento mais plausível para a origem e evolução do nascente movimento cristão.
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