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Jacob Erickson deposited Irreverent Theology: On the Queer Ecology of Creation in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoDrawing on the creativity of the nascent field of “queer ecology,” I argue for a kind of irreverent ecocriticism (Nicole Seymour) and a constructive theological posture of irreverence towards the twin metaphysical concepts of “God” and “Nature.” I do so by engaging the work of feminist philosopher of science, Karen Barad. Barad’s writing is ke…[Read more]
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John W. Borchert deposited Honors 240: How Religion Makes Bodies: Saints, Cyborgs, Monsters in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoWhat can a body do? is a central question to religious thinking: What does it mean to be human? To be non-human? What is a human body? Where are its limits? What can a religious body do differently? This question of the body is one way to begin an inquiry into what it means to be human, and religion is one way to think about the limits of…[Read more]
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David E. Roy, Ph.D. deposited Can Whitehead’s Philosophy Provide an Adequate Theoretical Foundation for Today’s Neuroscience? in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThis article shows the high degree of correlation between the ways in which the right and the left hemispheres process and organize information and Whitehead’s understanding of the two pure and direct modes of perception, causal efficacy and presentational immediacy. The neuroscience is drawn from the recent work of Iain McGilchrist and Robert…[Read more]
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Jason Goroncy deposited The Catholicity of Time in the Work of George Mackay Brown in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis essay introduces and explores some explicitly theological concerns in the work of the Orcadian poet, novelist, and dramatist George Mackay Brown (1921–96). More specifically, its interest is with Brown’s presentation and treatment of the notion of time. Drawing on examples from a wide selection of his work, it is argued that Brown’s conve…[Read more]
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Jason Goroncy deposited Euthanasia: Some theological considerations for living responsibly in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis article articulates some of the main arguments both for and against euthanasia under the circumstances being envisaged by the Victorian Parliament’s Legal and Social Issues Committee. More particularly, its concern is to attend to some of the theological issues germane to the subject. To this end, it identifies and discusses six arguments f…[Read more]
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Adam Rasmussen deposited “A Vessel Divinely Molded”: Basil of Caesarea on the Human Body in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis paper has two parts. First, I examine Basil of Caesarea’s theological anthropology and show how he understands the human being as a body-soul unity. The body is the good instrument of the soul. It is marvelous because it has been molded by God’s own hands. In the second part, I examine what I call Basil’s theological physiology, which flows…[Read more]
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Adam Rasmussen deposited Basil of Caesarea’s Uses of Origen in His Polemic against Astrology in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoBasil of Caesarea, in his polemic against astrology (Homiliae in hexaemeron 6,5−7), makes direct, creative uses of Origen’s anti-astrological treatise (Philocalia 23). My argument is based on an identical context, namely the interpretation of Gen 1:14b, and five close similarities in content, some verbatim, between Basil’s sermon and Orige…[Read more]
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Jonathan Best deposited Digital Social Space? Interpreting Digital Action and Behavior for Today’s Churches in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThe internet has changed the ways human beings connect and understand one another. Through the use of social media, people find themselves immersed in a digital environment consisting of various practices and behaviors. As Christianity continues to negotiate the often tricky relationship it has with digital experience, what philosophical and…[Read more]
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Jonathan Best deposited Why a Theology of Foot Washing is Necessary in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoAn essay on why foot washing (washing of the saints’ feet) should remain a valuable practice for Original Free Will Baptists and Christianity. In this essay, I explore the ministerial implications foot washing has for identity formation, tradition, and community building. I suggest that foot washing is a visible and physical reminder of what our…[Read more]
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Jonathan Best deposited Listening to the Rhythms: Preparing for Theological Conversation in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoAn exploration of the rhythms and relationships that come from theological conversation. This paper explores the necessity of relationship and connection when doing theology. I argue that theology must be relational beginning with a theological encounter with the other. This paper incorporates the thoughts of Henri Lefebvre, Jean-Luc Nancy, and…[Read more]
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Sérgio Dias Branco deposited “Screened Signs of Grace: André Bazin’s ‘Cinema and Theology’ and the Sacramental Facet of Film” in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis paper is a reading of André Bazin’s article “Cinema and Theology”, an appraisal of “Cielo sulla palude” (“Heaven Over the Marshes”, 1949) that also reflects on the relation between film and theology. The reading takes into account Bazin’s ontology of cinema, which has been at times simplistically described as a belief in the simple transpare…[Read more]
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W. Travis McMaken deposited “Our God Loves Justice”: Study Questions in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThis document provides a set of study or discussion questions for each chapter and appendix in my book, “Our God Loves Justice: An Introduction to Helmut Gollwitzer” (Fortress 2017). It is provided to facilitate classroom adoption and use in diverse study groups.
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Joel Chopp deposited Review of “Christian Dogmatics: Reformed Theology for the Church Catholic,” Michael Allen and Scott Swain, eds. in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 8 years agoReview of “Christian Dogmatics: Reformed Theology for the Church Catholic,” Michael Allen and Scott Swain, eds.
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Masahiro Morioka deposited Philosophy of Life in Contemporary Society in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoIn today’s academic philosophy, we have “philosophy of biology,” which deals with creatures’ biological phenomena, “philosophy of
death,” which concentrates on the concept of human death, and “philosophy of meaning of life,” which investigates difficult problems concerning the meaning of life and living, but we do not have “philosophy of…[Read more] -
Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited סוד הנשיקה בתנ”ך ובחז”ל in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThis article discusses the concept of kissing as it appears in the Bible and in Rabbinic writings. Special attention is given to different motives for kissing and to different conjugations of the Hebrew verbs for kissing.
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Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited Uttering the Names of Idols in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThis article discusses rabbinic qualifications to the Biblical prohibition of verbally saying the names of foreign gods (typically represented by idols).
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Marek Kalmus deposited Tybet – koniec legendy? / Tibet – end of the Legend? in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoTibet – end of the legend
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Jason Goroncy deposited ‘Holiness in Victorian and Edwardian England: Some Ecclesial Patterns and Theological Requisitions’ in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis essay begins by offering some observations about how holiness was comprehended and expressed in Victorian and Edwardian England. In addition to the ‘sensibility’ and ‘sentiment’ that characterised society, notions of holiness were shaped by, and developed in reaction to, dominant philosophical movements; notably, the Enlightenment and Romanti…[Read more]
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Jason Goroncy deposited ‘Called, Sent, Empowered: A Theology of Mission’ in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoPublished in PCANZ Global Mission – Why, Where, and How (Wellington: Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand, 2014).
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Jason Goroncy deposited ‘Bitter Tonic for our Time – Why the Church Needs the World: Peter Taylor Forsyth on Henrik Ibsen’ in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoAbstract: Why does the Church need the world? This paper seeks to explore what today’s Church might learn from secular ‘apostles’ and ‘prophets’ as part of its ongoing mission to, for and with the world that God so loves. In particular, it will investigate the role that poets, dramatists and other artists might play in identifying humanism’…[Read more]
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