In Defense Of Extended Conciliar Christology

Author : Timothy Pawl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192570871

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In Defense of Extended Conciliar Christology by Timothy Pawl Pdf

In Defense of Extended Conciliar Christology: A Philosophical Essay examines the logical consistency and coherence of Extended Conciliar Christology-the Christological doctrine that results from conjoining Conciliar Christology, the Christology of the first seven ecumenical councils of the Christian Church, with five additional theses. These theses are the claims that multiple incarnations are possible; Christ descended into Hell during his three days of death; Christ's human will was free; Christ was impeccable; and that Christ, via his human intellect, knew all things past, present, and future. These five theses, while not found in the first seven ecumenical councils, are common in the Christian theological tradition. The main question Timothy Pawl asks in this book is whether these five theses, when conjoined with Conciliar Christology, imply a contradiction. This study does not undertake to defend the truth of Extended Conciliar Christology. Rather, it shows that the extant philosophical objections to Extended Conciliar Christology fail.

Author : Timothy Pawl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198765929

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In Defense of Conciliar Christology by Timothy Pawl Pdf

This volume offers a philosophical investigation into the systematic coherence of the Christology developed by the first seven Ecumenical Councils (from the First Council of Nicaea in ad 325 to the Second Council of Nicaea in ad 787).

Author : Jc Beall
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198852360

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The Contradictory Christ by Jc Beall Pdf

Leading scholar Jc Beall advances a contradictory Christology by addressing the apparent contradiction of Christ's being fully human and fully divine.

Author : Mark S. Smith
Publisher : Oxford Early Christian Studies
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198835271

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The Idea of Nicaea in the Early Church Councils, Ad 431-451 by Mark S. Smith Pdf

The Idea of Nicaea in the Early Church Councils examines the role that appeals to Nicaea (both the council and its creed) played in the major councils of the mid-fifth century. It argues that the conflict between rival construals of Nicaea, and the struggle convincingly to arbitrate between them, represented a key dynamic driving--and unsettling--the conciliar activity of these decades. Mark S. Smith identifies a set of inherited assumptions concerning the role that Nicaea was expected to play in orthodox discourse--namely, that it possessed unique authority as a conciliar event, and sole sufficiency as a credal statement. The fundamental dilemma was thus how such shibboleths could be persuasively reaffirmed in the context of a dispute over Christological doctrine that the resources of the Nicene Creed were inadequate to address, and how the convening of new oecumenical councils could avoid fatally undermining Nicaea's special status. Smith examines the articulation of these contested ideas of 'Nicaea' at the councils of Ephesus I (431), Constantinople (448), Ephesus II (449), and Chalcedon (451). Particular attention is paid to the role of conciliar acta in providing carefully-shaped written contexts within which the Nicene Creed could be read and interpreted. This study proposes that the capacity of the idea of 'Nicaea' for flexible re-expression was a source of opportunity as well as a cause of strife, allowing continuity with the past to be asserted precisely through adaptation and modification, and opening up significant new paths for the articulation of credal and conciliar authority. The work thus combines a detailed historical analysis of the reception of Nicaea in the proceedings of the fifth-century councils, with an examination of the complex delineation of theological 'orthodoxy' in this period. It also reflects more widely on questions of doctrinal development and ecclesial reception in the early church.

Author : Matthew Levering
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009221450

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Reconfiguring Thomistic Christology by Matthew Levering Pdf

Unites eschatologically charged biblical Christology with metaphysical and dogmatic Thomistic Christology, by highlighting shared typological Christologies.

Author : Oliver D. Crisp,Michael C. Rea
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199203567

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Analytic Theology by Oliver D. Crisp,Michael C. Rea Pdf

that offer some more critical perspectives." --Book Jacket.

Author : Johannes Grössl,Klaus von Stosch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000376654

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Impeccability and Temptation by Johannes Grössl,Klaus von Stosch Pdf

In Christian theology, the teaching that Christ possessed both a human and divine will is central to the doctrine of two natures, but it also represents a logical paradox, raising questions about how a person can be both impeccable and subject to temptation. This volume explores these questions through an analytic theology approach, bringing together 15 original papers that explore the implications of a strong libertarian concept of free will for Christology. With perspectives from systematic theologians, philosophers, and biblical scholars, several chapters also offer a comparative theology approach, examining the concept of impeccability in the Muslim tradition. Therefore, this volume will be of interest to scholars and graduate students working in analytic theology, biblical scholarship, systematic theology, and Christian-Islamic dialogue.

Author : Mark C. Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192633880

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Divine Holiness and Divine Action by Mark C. Murphy Pdf

Holiness is the attribute most emphatically ascribed to God in Scripture, but there has been little attention devoted to characterizing and considering the entailments of divine holiness. In Divine Holiness and Divine Action, Mark C. Murphy defends an account of holiness indebted to Rudolf Otto's description of the experience of the holy as that of a mysterium tremendum et fascinans. God's being holy consists in God's being someone with whom intimate union is both extremely desirable for us and yet something for which we—and indeed any limited beings—are unfit. This notion of divine holiness is useful for addressing disputed theological questions regarding divine action. In contrast to standard accounts of divine action that begin with assumptions regarding God's moral perfection or God's maximal love, the appeal to divine holiness supports a rival framework for explaining and predicting divine action—the holiness framework—according to which God is motivated to act in ways that are a response to God's own value by keeping distance from that which is deficient, defective, or in any way limited in goodness. This study exhibits the fruitfulness of a reorientation from the morality and love frameworks to the holiness framework by showing how such a reorientation suggests distinct approaches to perennial problems of divine action regarding creation, incarnation, atonement, and salvation. From the treatment of these perennial problems, a general theme regarding divine action emerges: that God's interaction with the world exhibits a radical sort of humility.

Author : Randal Rauser
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498217170

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Is the Atheist My Neighbor? by Randal Rauser Pdf

Do atheists hate God? Many Christians seem to think so. For the last three centuries Christians have widely assumed that atheism is always a result of a rebellious, sinful rejection of God. According to this view, at some level atheists really do know there is a God, but they sinfully suppress this knowledge because they want to live independently of God. But what if that is not correct? What if some folks are atheists not because they're sinful and foolish but because they've thought hard, they've looked carefully, and they have simply not found God? What if the common Christian assumptions about atheism are little more than an indefensible prejudice? What if the atheist really is our neighbor?

Author : Eleonore Stump
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Atonement
ISBN : 9780198813866

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Atonement by Eleonore Stump Pdf

"The doctrine of the Atonement is the distinctive doctrine of Christianity. Over the course of many centuries of reflection, highly diverse interpretations of the doctrine have been proposed. In the context of this history of interpretation, Eleonore Stump considers the doctrine afresh with philosophical care. Whatever exactly the Atonement is, it is supposed to include a solution to the problems of the human condition, especially its guilt and shame. Stump canvasses the major interpretations of the doctrine that attempt to explain this solution and argues that all of them have serious shortcomings. In their place, she argues for an interpretation that is both novel and yet traditional and that has significant advantages over other interpretations, including Anselm's well-known account of the doctrine. In the process, she also discusses love, union, guilt, shame, forgiveness, retribution, punishment, shared attention, mind-reading, empathy, and various other issues in moral psychology and ethics."--

Author : Eleonore Stump,Thomas Joseph White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781316517222

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The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas by Eleonore Stump,Thomas Joseph White Pdf

A detailed, historically informed examination of the major areas of Aquinas's thought, for both scholars and students.

Author : Timothy J. Pawl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108606264

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The Incarnation by Timothy J. Pawl Pdf

The Doctrine of the Incarnation, that Jesus Christ was both truly God and truly human, is the foundation and cornerstone of traditional Christian theism. And yet, this traditional teaching appears to verge on incoherence. How can one person be both God, having all the perfections of divinity, and human, having all the limitations of humanity? This is the fundamental philosophical problem of the incarnation. Perhaps a solution is found in an analysis of what the traditional teaching meant by person, divinity, and humanity, or in understanding how divinity and humanity were united in a single person? This Element presents that traditional teaching, then returns to the incoherence problem to showcase various solutions that have been offered to it.

Author : Ignacio Silva,Simon Kopf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000227307

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Divine and Human Providence by Ignacio Silva,Simon Kopf Pdf

This volume offers an original perspective on divine providence by examining philosophical, psychological, and theological perspectives on human providence as exhibited in virtuous human behaviours. Divine providence is one of the most pressing issues in analytic theology and philosophy of religion today, especially in view of scientific evidence for a natural world full of indeterminacies and contingencies. Therefore, we need new ways to understand and explain the relations of divine providence and creaturely action. The volume is structured dynamically, going from chapters on human providence to those on divine providence, and back. Drawing on insights from virtue ethics, psychology and cognitive science, the philosophy of providence in the face of contingent events, and the theology of grace, each chapter contributes to an original overall perspective: that human providential action is a resource suited specifically to personal action and hence related to the purported providential action of a personal God. By putting forward a fresh take on divine providence, this book enters new territory on an age-old issue. It will therefore be of great interest to scholars of theology and philosophy.

Author : Thomas H. McCall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192599452

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Analytic Christology and the Theological Interpretation of the New Testament by Thomas H. McCall Pdf

This study draws upon the resources of both contemporary analytic theology and the theological interpretation of the New Testament in order to investigate a set of important issues in Christology. It is the first work in analytic Christology to draw upon both recent scholarship in biblical studies and recent contributions to analytic philosophy and theology. Thomas H. McCall explores the themes of union with Christ and the faith of Christ as these are developed by the "apocalyptic" and "New Perspective" interpreters of Pauline theology. The volume offers a careful analysis of recent dogmatic proposals about the identity of Christ and the doctrine of election, and provides an examination of debates over the subordination of the Son in Hebrews. It also probes the relationship of the incarnate Son to his Father in Johannine theology. McCall presents an exegetically-grounded theological engagement with recent work on the place of logic in the doctrine of the incarnation.

Author : Dale Tuggy,Christopher M. Date
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666783797

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Is Jesus Human and Not Divine? by Dale Tuggy,Christopher M. Date Pdf