The Father's Eternal Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Father's Eternal Freedom write by Dario Chiapetti. This book was released on 2022-01-01. The Father's Eternal Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John Zizioulas is renowned for his controversial reflection on the ontological freedom as the cause and cipher of God’s being, which also has important implications for anthropology, ecclesiology and ecumenical dialogue. This view is bound up with a personalist conception of the Trinity, recognised in the teaching of the Greek Church Fathers, in which the person represents the primary ontological category. In particular, Zizioulas shows how, by virtue of the Father, personhood coincides with absolute freedom. In The Father’s Eternal Freedom, Dario Chiapetti explores this ontology. Taking into account Zizioulas' epistemological principles, his patristic reading and his theological development, the author systematically presents Zizioulas' thesis, verifying its conformity to dogma and its internal coherence. Chiapetti analyses how Zizioulas' proposal brings back to the centre of systematic theology the teaching of the Greek Fathers, especially the Cappadocians, and the apophatic horizon of dogmatic reflection. Such reflection pushes the discourse on God to its maximum degree, identifying and bringing out, rather than resolving or attenuating, the aporetic terms that structure it.
The Key to Eternal Freedom and Endless Joy
The Key to Eternal Freedom and Endless Joy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Key to Eternal Freedom and Endless Joy write by Bro Moses Naveen. This book was released on 2017-10-26. The Key to Eternal Freedom and Endless Joy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, the author shows the way to eternal freedom and endless joy. He gives us a clear picture of the fullness of redemption with several quotations as evidence from the Holy Bible. Whenever you feel depressed, stressed out or feel like failures without hope, this book will boost your spirit, soul and body. This is not only a book but also spiritual food for each and every soul on earth. So, this is not a book just for one-time reading. It can be read over and over again to provide you with fresh energy. It will draw all people towards the Lord’s wings, connect people with God, increase eagerness in seeking God and make people stand firm in faith, in both spiritual and worldly life too. We will be filled with God’s presence and feel the freedom, which is eternal, and the joy, which is endless in our lives. Come and taste the heavenly life in your day-to-day earthly life, and be happy by the grace of God!
Freedom and Necessity in Modern Trinitarian Theology
Freedom and Necessity in Modern Trinitarian Theology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Freedom and Necessity in Modern Trinitarian Theology write by Brandon Gallaher. This book was released on 2016. Freedom and Necessity in Modern Trinitarian Theology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Freedom and Necessity in Modern Trinitarian Theology examines the tension between God and the world through a constructive reading of the Trinitarian theologies and Christologies of Sergii Bulgakov (1871-1944), Karl Barth (1886-1968), and Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988). It focuses on what is called "the problematic of divine freedom and necessity" and the response of the writers. "Problematic" refers to God being simultaneously radically free and utterly bound to creation. God did not need to create and redeem the world in Christ. It is a contingent free gift. Yet, on the other side of a dialectic, he also has eternally determined himself to be God as Jesus Christ. He must create and redeem the world to be God as he has so determined. In this way the world is given a certain "free necessity" by him because if there were no world then there would be no Christ. A spectrum of different concepts of freedom and necessity and a theological ideal of a balance between the same are outlined and then used to illumine the writers and to articulate a constructive response to the problematic. Brandon Gallaher shows that the classical Christian understanding of God having a non-necessary relationship to the world and divine freedom being a sheer assertion of God's will must be completely rethought. Gallaher proposes a Trinitarian, Christocentric, and cruciform vision of divine freedom. God is free as eternally self-giving, self-emptying and self-receiving love. The work concludes with a contemporary theology of divine freedom founded on divine election.
Freedom, Necessity, and the Knowledge of God
Freedom, Necessity, and the Knowledge of God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Freedom, Necessity, and the Knowledge of God write by Paul D. Molnar. This book was released on 2021-12-30. Freedom, Necessity, and the Knowledge of God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Paul D. Molnar discusses issues related to the concepts of freedom and necessity in trinitarian doctrine. He considers the implications of “non-conceptual knowledge of God” by comparing the approaches of Karl Rahner and T. F. Torrance. He also reconsiders T. F. Torrance's “new” natural theology and illustrates why Christology must be central when discussing liberation theology. Further, he explores Catholic and Protestant relations by comparing the views of Elizabeth Johnson, Walter Kasper and Karl Barth, as well as relations among Christians, Jews and Muslims by considering whether it is appropriate to claim that all three religions should be understood to be united under the concept of monotheism. Finally, he probes the controversial issues of how to name God in a way that underscores the full equality of women and men and how to understand “universalism” by placing Torrance and David Bentley Hart into conversation on that subject.
Holy Beauty
Holy Beauty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Holy Beauty write by Chrysostomos A. Stamoulis. This book was released on 2022-08-25. Holy Beauty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The philosophical and theological study of aesthetics has a long and rich history, stretching back to Platos identification of ultimate goodness and beauty, together representing the eternal form. Recent trends in aesthetic theory, however, characterised by a focus on the beautiful at the expense of the good, have made it an object of suspicion in the Orthodox Church. In its place, Greek theologians have sought to emphasise philokalia as a truer theological discipline. Seeking to reverse this trend, Chrysostomos Stamoulis brings into conversation a plethora of voices, from Church fathers to contemporary poets, and from a Marxist political theorist to a literary critic. Out of this dialogue, Stamoulis builds a model for the re-appropriation of Orthodoxys patristic and Byzantine past that is no longer defined in antithesis to the Western present. The openness he proposes allows us to perceive afresh the world shot through with divinity, if only we can lift our gaze to see it. Dismantling the false dichotomy, philokalia or aesthetics, is the first step."
