Journal ArticleCounterText · April 1, 2021
This response to Robin Kirkpatrick s article in this issue of CounterText takes up the theme of what can be said when, through excess, we know that speech fails or will not do. Theologians know this, as did St Paul, and as do poets. Words can be carefully ...
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Journal ArticleNew Blackfriars · March 2020
AbstractThe article argues that philosophers of religion and theologians should pay less attention to the so-called ‘classical attributes’ of God and more attention to the neglected, but venerable, tradition of the divine n ...
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Journal ArticleZygon · January 1, 2019
The respondent agrees with Michael Reiss's general diagnosis of the rudderless state of ethics in our modern society, but not with all of his account of its causes or possible solutions. Scripture has always been limited in terms of direct moral commands, ...
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Journal ArticleModern Theology · July 1, 2018
This article makes the case for speaking not of divine “attributes” but of divine “names.” There are good scriptural grounds for advancing the thesis that love is not just another divine name, but the name which designates God’s very nature, i.e. who God i ...
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ConferenceModern Theology · April 1, 2013
This article speaks in praise of the dignity of creatures. Arguing for a foundation of the nascent doctrine of creatio ex nihilo in the Psalms and inter-testamental scriptures, Soskice points to the distinctiveness of the Jewish and Christian understanding ...
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Book · October 3, 2011
This book considers four concepts in a Biblical context: fathers, sons, brothers, kings. It then asks the questions: Does the predominantly masculine symbolism of the Biblical writings exclude women or overlook the riches of their spiritual life? If Christ ...
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Book · January 1, 2010
Castel Gandolfo, the venerable summer residence of popes, has for over three hundred years been home to the Vatican Observatory. In recent years the Jesuits who run this very ancient and, at the same time, very modern institution have hosted successive gat ...
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Book · January 1, 2010
Creatio ex nihilo is a foundational doctrine in the Abrahamic faiths. It states that God created the world freely out of nothing – from no pre-existent matter, space or time. This teaching is central to classical accounts of divine action, free will, grace ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2010
Introduction Creatio ex nihilo is a central teaching in Jewish, Christian and Muslim thought – in fact, the only teaching that the medieval Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides thought that all three traditions shared. It affirms that God, from no compulsio ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Systematic Theology · April 1, 2006
Did the church Fathers baptize Aristotle? Were the classic divine attributes simply lifted from Greek philosophers? This article does not set out to find a single metaphysic advocated by scripture but instead draws attention to the unique 'unhellenic' doct ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2005
According to Cicero, the ‘one thing in human experience about whose advantage all men with one voice agree, is friendship …’. Some men hold virtue in contempt, others disdain riches or political honours, but ‘concerning friendship all, to a man, think the ...
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Book · January 1, 2005
This book was first published in 2005. How will the study of theology and the religions in higher education be shaped in the coming century? This book offers several different perspectives on this field of study with suggestions for a future in which theol ...
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