"In Western religious traditions, God is conventionally conceived as a humanlike creator, lawgiver, and king, a being both accessible and actively present in history. Yet there is a concurrent and strong tradition of a God who actively hides. The two traditions have led to a ten…
"In Western religious traditions, God is conventionally conceived as a humanlike creator, lawgiver, and king, a being both accessible and actively present in history. Yet there is a concurrent and strong tradition of a God who actively hides. The two traditions have led to a ten…
"In Western religious traditions, God is conventionally conceived as a humanlike creator, lawgiver, and king, a being both accessible and actively present in history. Yet there is a concurrent and strong tradition of a God who actively hides. The two traditions have led to a ten…
Of Aniconic Strategies in the General Idol PolemicsDeliberate Misrepresentation; Biblical Evidence of Deliberate Distortion; Enlivening the Cult Statue and Biblical Distortion; Conclusions; Chapter 3: Iconoclasm: Aniconism & the Image of Yahweh; Distancing the Divine from Concre…
Henosis: L'union à Dieu chez Denys L'Aréopagite
In the first part of this study, the theme of the union (henosis) is analysed in Dionysius the Areopagite's De Divinis Nominibus . The starting point of this inquiry is the trinitarian theology of Dionysius. He distinguishes between Union (henosis) and distinction (diakrisis), a…
Henosis: L'union à Dieu chez Denys L'Aréopagite
"Comparing Avicenna s and Thomas Aquinas positions regarding human knowledge, this volumes talks about God and the nature of the creative action and the beginning of the universe. The overall argument of the book is that their conception of theological language plays an importan…