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a contrast life aimed at communion.
Willie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))
that Christ the King of Glory may enter!
Enter, O my Light, and enlighten my darkness;
Enter, O my Life, and quicken my deadness;
Enter, O my Physician, and heal my wounds;
Enter, O Divine Fire, and burn up the thorns of my sins;
Ignite my inward parts and my heart
with the flame of your love;
Enter, O my King, and dest... See more
my strategy is “Schaefferian” in the sense that my primary audience is not just philosophers but practitioners—more specifically, Christians engaged in ministry in a postmodern world, as well as searching inhabitants of this postmodern world. As such, these essays are not an academic project per se.
James K. A. Smith • Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
THIS BOOK IS WRITTEN for those seeking a philosophy of life. In the pages that follow, I focus my attention on a philosophy that I have found useful and that I suspect many readers will also find useful. It is the philosophy of the ancient Stoics. The Stoic philosophy of life may be old, but it merits the attention of any modern individual who wish
... See moreWilliam B. Irvine • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
It is not an exaggeration to say that one of the most important events in the early modern history of the Eastern Orthodox Church was the publication in 1782 of a book called the Philokalia, which means ‘the love of beauty’.
David Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
The centre of his thought was ‘divine humanity’, mankind’s original and natural orientation towards divinization, and the ‘God-man’, Christ, who brings this orientation to fruition and so joins all of creation to God. Solovyov is also accounted the father of ‘Sophiology’, a movement concerned with reflection on the Biblical figure of the divine Sop
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Navigating Postmodern Theology: Insights from Jean-Luc Marion and Gianni Vattimo’s Philosophy
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Alexei Boronnikov
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The act of ministry brings forth ontological union at the divine and human level; it is the embodied and lived story of cross to resurrection.