Essays in Analytic Theology

This book is the first of two volumes collecting together the most substantial work in analytic theology that I have done between 2003 and 2018. The essays in this volume focus on the nature of God, whereas the essays in the companion volume focus on humanity and the human condition. The essays in the first part of this volume deal with issues in the philosophy of theology having to do with discourse about God and the authority of scripture; the essays in the second part focus on divine attributes; and the essays in the third part discuss the doctrine of the trinity and related issues. The book includes one new essay, another essay that was previously published only in German translation, and new postscripts to two of the essays.

Introduction

Essays in Analytic Theology ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198866800.003.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-16

Author(s):

Michael C. Rea

Keyword(s):

Divine Attributes ◽

The Third ◽

Current Thinking ◽

Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽

This chapter introduces the volume. The chapters in the first part of the volume deal with metatheological issues pertaining to discourse about God and the authority of scripture; the chapters in the second part focus on divine attributes; and the chapters in the third part discuss the doctrine of the trinity and related issues. The section headings of this introduction match the part divisions of the book, but it is not the aim here to summarize the chapters included in each section’s corresponding part. Instead, this introduction aims to supplement those papers with a more general discussion of some of the author’s past and current thinking on the various loci covered by the chapters in the volume.

Redefining progress in Trinitarian theology: Stephen R. Holmes on the Trinity

Evangelical Quarterly ◽

10.1163/27725472-08601002 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 86 (1) ◽

pp. 6-20

Author(s):

Fred Sanders

Keyword(s):

Systematic Theology ◽

Trinitarian Theology ◽

Divine Attributes ◽

Classical Theism ◽

Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽

Constructive Work ◽

Historical Theology ◽

This essay examines some of the implications for contemporary constructive work on the doctrine of the Trinity if Steve Holmes is correct in his judgments about the direction taken by the recent revival of interest in the doctrine. Holmes raises serious questions about the exegetical basis of the doctrine, and raises the question of what God has revealed in the sending of the Son and the Spirit. Some areas of maximal divergence between the classic tradition and the recent revival are probed, such as the recent lack of interest in the elaboration and defense of divinity unity, and also of the divine attributes as explored by classical theism. Finally, Holmes’s work raises questions about the proper relationships between systematic theology and allied theological disciplines such as historical theology and analytic theology.

The Nature of God and the Trinity

The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198754060.013.10 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 117-134

Author(s):

Kyle C. Strobel

Keyword(s):

Unique Feature ◽

Divine Attributes ◽

Human Speech ◽

Doctrine Of God ◽

Secondary Literature ◽

Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽

The Subject ◽

Commonly recognized as fundamental to his thought as a whole, Edwards’s doctrine of the Trinity has, nonetheless, been the subject of much discord in the secondary literature. After initially mapping the various perspectives (or ‘instincts’) on the issue, this chapter turns to the notion of personalism to explain the inner logic of Edwards’s account. This unique feature of Edwards’s doctrine explains how he can utilize traditional theological machinery in his doctrine of God (i.e. psychological imagery, simplicity, actus purus, filioque, and divine blessedness), to establish his idiosyncratic development of perichoresis and the divine attributes. What this reading of Edwards’s doctrine helps establish is how he articulates human speech about God, and various rules for how that speech functions (e.g. talk about God is to talk about person(s); God’s self-giving is funded by, rather than diminished by, God’s perfection).

Satya and Ahimsa

10.1093/oso/9780199477548.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Koneru Ramakrishna Rao

Keyword(s):

Human Condition ◽

Basic Principles ◽

Entire Spectrum ◽

Philosophical Foundations ◽

The Third ◽

Dialectical Process ◽

Practical Synthesis ◽

Philosophical Structure ◽

The Ideal ◽

The third chapter discusses truth (satya) and non-violence (ahimsa) as the basic principles encompassing the entire spectrum of Gandhi’s thought. This chapter deals primarily with the philosophical foundations of Gandhian thought and practices. In Gandhi’s ontology, reality comprises two aspects—the transcendent and the immanent, the ideal and the actual. The dual aspects of reality often appear in the human condition as polarized. The perceived bipolarity sets up a dialectical process and results in a sequence of attempts to find practical synthesis of the ideal and the actual. This chapter is an attempt to address the theoretical conundrums surfacing in Gandhi’s work and sketch a plausible framework for a philosophical structure in order to understand Gandhi’s ideas and practices in the chapters that follow.

Exile

The Oxford Handbook of Dante ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198820741.013.27 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 398-414

Author(s):

Johannes Bartuschat

Keyword(s):

Major Element ◽

Human Condition ◽

The Other ◽

The Third ◽

Vita Nuova ◽

Moral Lesson ◽

Other World ◽

The Relationship ◽

The Way ◽

This chapter examines the way the poet represents his exile. It is composed of three parts: the first considers the way Dante handles his exile in relation to authorship, and reveals how he constructs his authority from his position as an exile in the Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia, and his Epistles. The second analyses exile as a major element of the autobiographical dimension of the Commedia. It shows that the necessity to grasp the moral lesson of the exile constitutes the very heart of the poem. The third part explores the relationship between exile and pilgrimage, the latter being, from the Vita Nuova onwards, a symbol of the human condition, and demonstrates how Dante interprets his experience both as an exile and as a wanderer in the other world in the light of pilgrimage.

Quién es quién en el espacio público: Política e identidad en H. Arendt

Revista de la Academia ◽

10.25074/0196318.0.49 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 20 ◽

pp. 103

Author(s):

María José López Merino

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Political Action ◽

Human Condition ◽

Font Size ◽

The Public ◽

The Third ◽

En lo que sigue presentamos el concepto de identidad del quién, que Arendt expone en su obra The Human Condition, ligado a la noción de acción política. Presentamos este concepto ligado a tres anomalías que registra la lectura de Arendt: la primera vinculada con la misma noción de política que explora la autora, la segunda vinculada a su posición como pensadora anti-metafísica, y la tercera relacionada ya no con sus ideas sino con su praxis como pensadora: las actividades que la sitúan en espacio público como un quién que tiene algo que decir. Específicamente, en dos momentos peculiares en su escritura: Los orígenes del Totalitarismo y Rahel Varnhagen. La vida de una judía.Palabras claves: identidad, quién, acción, narración, espacio público WHO IS WHO IN THE PUBLIC SPACE: POLICITY AND IDENTITY IN H. ARENDT This article presents the concept of the identity of the ‘who’, exposed by Arendt in her book The Human Condition, linked to the notion of political action. We introduce this concept related to three anomalies that appear in Arendt’s reading: the first associated to the very notion of politics that she explores, the second linked to her position as an antimetaphysical thinker, and the third related not with her ideas but with her praxis as thinker: her activities in the public space like a ‘who’ that has something to say, specifically, in two peculiar moments in her production: Origins of Totalitarianism and Rahel Varnghagen, the Life of a Jewess. Keyword: identity, who, action, narration, public space

Existential Universals

Chinese Semiotic Studies ◽

10.1515/css-2017-0022 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Morten Tønnessen

Keyword(s):

Philosophical Anthropology ◽

Human Condition ◽

Natural Setting ◽

Human Beings ◽

Human Form ◽

Common Features ◽

The Third ◽

Fourth Part ◽

Key Points ◽

AbstractThis paper is divided into five parts. The introduction presents some implications of the relational nature of human beings as well as other living beings, and establishes a connection between biosemiotics and existentialist thinking. The second part indicates key points of a “semiotics of being” as a genuine outlook within semiotics. In “Universals of biosemiosis”, the third part, a number of common features of everything and anyone alive are identified. The fourth part, “On Earth – the natural setting of the human condition”, sets the stage for a few ecologically and astronomically minded reflections in philosophical anthropology. In the fifth and concluding part, “On the alienation of the semiotic animal”, observations are made on some existential implications of the characteristically human form of being. Part of the motivation for the paper is to demonstrate, firstly, that existential semiosis plays a key role in human semiosis, and secondly, that other living beings too live through existential dramas.

Heat and Light

After Arminius ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190874193.003.0002 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 27-98

Author(s):

Thomas H. McCall ◽

Keith D. Stanglin

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Divine Attributes ◽

Proper Understanding ◽

Doctrine Of God ◽

Good Works ◽

The North ◽

Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽

The North Sea ◽

The Relationship ◽

Chapter 2 begins the account of Arminian theology after Arminius, turning attention to the complexities of the continental Remonstrant and English Arminian theologies as they took shape in the seventeenth century. After a historical overview of the controversies surrounding the Synod of Dordt (including the British involvement in the Dutch controversies), we provide an account of the theology of Dutch Remonstrantism. After examining the relationship between Scripture and reason, we then turn attention to the doctrine of God, theological anthropology, and the doctrines of salvation. Moving across the North Sea, we then explore the development of doctrine within the English variants of Arminian theology, describing issues related to the doctrine of the Trinity, the proper understanding of the divine attributes, the extent of the atonement, and the doctrine of justification and its relation to good works.

Transformasie, partisipasie en pluraliteit – die Kappadosiese erfenis vir die Sistematiese Teologie in die derde millennium

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies ◽

10.4102/hts.v69i1.2040 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 69 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Tanya Van Wyk

Keyword(s):

Lived Experiences ◽

Life Stories ◽

Focal Point ◽

Systematic Theology ◽

The Third ◽

Ethical Discourse ◽

Third Millennium ◽

Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽

Cappadocian Fathers ◽

Transformation, participation and plurality: The Cappadocian heritage for Systematic Theology in the third millennium. The aim of this article is to demonstrate how Systematic Theology in the third millennium utilises facets from the legacy of the Cappadocian fathers. The focal point is the influence on present-day Trinitarian theology. Aspects which are discussed include matters of metaphysics, philosophy, morality and spirituality. The influence of the legacy of the Cappadocian fathers concerns the challenge which diversity and plurality create in systematic theology. This legacy is explored by means of the ‘lived experiences’ of the life stories of the Cappadocians. These narratives illustrate a shift from the ‘impersonal’ to the ‘personal’, from ‘disengaged abstraction’ to ‘relational participation’. The latter is referred to as ‘a pastoral doctrine of the Trinity’ by Paul S. Fiddes. The emphasis on ‘economical ontology’ confirms the Cappadocians’ relevance for a present-day ethical discourse and the ‘aesthetics of a feeling for the Other’.

Three Identities of One Action

Scottish Journal of Theology ◽

10.1017/s0036930600034566 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 1-15

Author(s):

Robert W. Jenson

Keyword(s):

Gregory Of Nyssa ◽

The Third ◽

Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽

Famous Argument ◽

Conceptual Revolution ◽

The following speculations do not pretend to state a complete doctrine of the Trinity, though they do state decisive parts of one. The first section is an account of what is, in my view, the function of a Trinity-doctrine, and will to some extent repeat work also published elsewhere. The second section is an interpretation of the trinitarian word ‘hypostasis’, that tries to display the conceptual revolution made by the traditional trinitarian assertion of ‘three hypostases of God’. The third considers the oneness of God, by analysing a famous argument of Gregory of Nyssa. And the fourth draws some further conclusions.