Speaking the Incomprehensible God

Speaking the Incomprehensible God PDF Author: Gregory P Rocca
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813213673
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Book Description
Gregory Rocca's nuanced discussion prevents Aquinas's thought from being capsulized in familiar slogans and is an antidote to unilateralist or monochrome views about God-talk.

Speaking the Incomprehensible God

Speaking the Incomprehensible God PDF Author: Gregory P Rocca
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813213673
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Book Description
Gregory Rocca's nuanced discussion prevents Aquinas's thought from being capsulized in familiar slogans and is an antidote to unilateralist or monochrome views about God-talk.

Speaking of God in Thomas Aquinas and Meister Eckhart

Speaking of God in Thomas Aquinas and Meister Eckhart PDF Author: Anastasia Wendlinder
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317051408
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Book Description
Medieval masters Thomas Aquinas and Meister Eckhart considered problems inherent to speaking of God, exploring how religious language might compromise God's transcendence or God's immanence ultimately hindering believers in their journey of faith seeking understanding. Going beyond ordinary readings of Aquinas and building a foundation for further insights into the works of both theologians, this book draws out the implications of the thought of Eckhart and Aquinas for contemporary issues, including ecumenical and inter-religious dialogue, liturgy and prayer, and religious inclusivity. Reading Aquinas and Eckhart in light of each other reveals the profound depth and orthodoxy of both of these scholars and provides a novel approach to many theological and practical religious issues.

The Darkness of God

The Darkness of God PDF Author: Denys Turner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521645614
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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A closely argued book about what the negative tradition in Western theology involves.

Two Guides for the Journey

Two Guides for the Journey PDF Author: Sheryl Overmyer
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498228992
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 153

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Book Description
Thomas Aquinas and William Langland inherited the dynamic metaphor of journeying as a fundamental concept of the Christian life and harnessed it to animate their magisterial texts: the Summa Theologiae and Piers Plowman. Christians' journey back to God consists in the way of charity, yet it is far from straightforward or sequential. Rather, it is impinged upon by epistemic ambiguity, our willful continued habits of resistance, and inherent limitations on our perfection. In sum, the virtues are divine gifts humanly received, treasure in earthen vessels. Together these authors show the complexity we ourselves will find along this life's journey, enable our understanding to appreciate that complexity, and in limited ways cultivate in us the virtues they describe.

What Can We Know about God?

What Can We Know about God? PDF Author: R. C. Sproul
Publisher: Reformation Trust Publishing
ISBN: 9781642890624
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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Book Description
Jesus said that knowing God is essential. The fact that God exists is obvious from creation, but in order to know who God is, we must learn what He has revealed about Himself in the Bible. In this booklet, Dr. R.C. Sproul explains what Scripture teaches about God's nature, will, and attributes, presenting a glorious picture of the one true God--the God we are called to know, trust, and obey. The Crucial Questions booklet series by Dr. R.C. Sproul offers succinct answers to important questions often asked by Christians and thoughtful inquirers.

Hidden and Revealed

Hidden and Revealed PDF Author: Dmytro Bintsarovskyi
Publisher: Lexham Press
ISBN: 1683594908
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Book Description
A major contribution to ecumenical reflection on the doctrine of God. The past century has seen renewed interest in the doctrine of God. While theological traditions disagree, their shared commitment to Nicene orthodoxy provides a common language for thinking and speaking about God. This dialogue has deepened our understanding of this shared way of thinking about God, but little has been done across ecumenical lines to explore God's hiddenness in revelation. In Hidden and Revealed, Dmytro Bintsarovskyi explores the hiddenness and revelation of God in two separate theological streams—Reformed and Orthodox. Bintsarovskyi shows that an understanding of both traditions reflects a deep structure of shared language, history, and commitments, while nevertheless reflecting real differences. With Herman Bavinck and John Meyendorff as his guides, Bintsarovskyi advances ecumenical dialogue on a doctrine central to our knowledge of God.

God and Creation in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth

God and Creation in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth PDF Author: Tyler Wittman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110847067X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 331

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Book Description
God's simplicity and perfection shapes both God's distinctive relation to creation and how theologians properly acknowledge this distinctiveness in thought.

All That Is in God

All That Is in God PDF Author: James E. Dolezal
Publisher: Reformation Heritage Books
ISBN: 1601785550
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Book Description
Unknown to many, increasing numbers of conservative evangelicals are denying basic tenets of classical Christian teaching about God, with departures occurring even among those of the Calvinistic persuasion. James E. Dolezal’s All That Is in God provides an exposition of the historic Christian position while engaging with these contemporary deviations. His convincing critique of the newer position he styles “theistic mutualism” is philosophically robust, systematically nuanced, and biblically based. It demonstrates the need to maintain the traditional viewpoint, particularly on divine simplicity, and spotlights the unfortunate implications for other important Christian doctrines—such as divine eternality and the Trinity—if it were to be abandoned. Arguing carefully and cogently that “all that is in God is God Himself,” the work is sure to stimulate debate on the issue in years to come.

The Cambridge Companion to the Summa Theologiae

The Cambridge Companion to the Summa Theologiae PDF Author: Philip McCosker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521879639
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 389

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Book Description
Featuring essays from both specialists in Aquinas' thought and constructive contemporary theologians, this Companion provides an accessible, comprehensive guide to his main mature theological work, the Summa Theologiae. The authors demonstrate how to read the text effectively and how to relate it to past and current theological issues.

The Mystery of Union with God

The Mystery of Union with God PDF Author: Bernhard Blankenhorn
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813227496
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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The Mystery of Union with God offers the most extensive, systematic analysis to date of how Albert and Thomas interpreted and transformed the Dionysian Moses "who knows God by unknowing." It shows Albert's and Thomas's philosophical and theological motives to place limits on Dionysian apophatism and to reintegrate mediated knowledge into mystical knowing. The author surfaces many similarities in the two Dominicans' mystical doctrines and exegesis of Dionysius. This work prepares the way for a new consideration of Albert the Great as the father of Rhineland Mysticism. The original presentation of Aquinas's theology of the Spirit's seven gifts breaks new ground in theological scholarship. Finally, the entire book lays out a model for the study of mystical theology from a historical, philosophical and doctrinal perspective.