Creation and Epiphanic Incarnation: Reflections on the Future of Natural Theology from an Eriugenian-Emersonian Perspective

Otten, Willemien

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“…If God takes a human form in his very nature and being, it means that the definitive fullness of human beings (and of all creation) includes human flesh. God's Incarnation itself is an embrace of human reality in its complexity, plurality, and in all its facets: Jean Baptiste Metz (1962) has made these implications explicit and so have more recent studies on the subject (Otten, 2013a(Otten, , 2013b.…”

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The incarnation and education as acts of weaving: Towards a comprehensive approach to schooling from a Christian perspective

Galioto

2022

International Journal of Christianity & Education

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This article proposes the Incarnation as a theological principle that illuminates the educational task, especially for Christian-oriented schools. Initially, I develop keys to understanding the Incarnation as an integrating event that can help us understand education as a comprehensive phenomenon. Then, I explore implications: First, based on the symbolism of the Incarnation as act of weaving, I consider education as a set of processes that allows the emergence of the divine-human vocation; second, studying can be conceived as a tool for a comprehensive weaving of a person’s true self. I discuss the validity of the implications of this perspective.

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The incarnation and education as acts of weaving: Towards a comprehensive approach to schooling from a Christian perspective

Galioto

2022

International Journal of Christianity & Education

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Christianity’s Content: (Neo)Platonism in the Middle Ages, Its Theoretical and Theological Appeal

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The development of medieval Christian thought reveals from its inception in foundational authors like Augustine and Boethius an inherent engagement with Neoplatonism. To their influence that of Pseudo-Dionysius was soon added, as the first speculative medieval author, the Carolingian thinker Johannes Scottus Eriugena (810–877ce), used all three seminal authors in his magisterial demonstration of the workings of procession and return. Rather than a stable ongoing trajectory, however, the development of medieval Christian (Neo)Platonism saw moments of flourishing alternate with moments of philosophical stagnation. The revival of theTimaeusand Platonic cosmogony in the twelfth century marks the achievement of the so-called Chartrian authors, even as theTimaeusnever acquired the authority of the biblical book of Genesis. Despite the dominance of scholastic and Aristotelian discourse in the thirteenth century, (Neo)Platonism continued to play an enduring role. The Franciscan Bonaventure follows the Victorine tradition in combining Augustinian and Dionysian themes, but Platonic influence underlies the pattern of procession and return — reflective of the Christian arc of creation and salvation — that frames the thought of Thomas Aquinas. Echoing the interrelation of macro- and microcosmos, the major themes of medieval Christian Platonic thought are, on the one hand, cosmos and creation and, on the other, soul and self. The Dominican friar Meister Eckhart and the beguine Marguerite Porete, finally, both Platonically inspired late-medieval Christian authors keen on accomplishing the return, whether the aim is to bring out its deep, abyss-like “ground” (Eckhart) or to give up reason altogether and surrender to the free state of “living without a why” (Marguerite), reveal the intellectual audacity involved in upending traditional theological modes of discourse.

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Creation and Epiphanic Incarnation: Reflections on the Future of Natural Theology from an Eriugenian-Emersonian Perspective

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The incarnation and education as acts of weaving: Towards a comprehensive approach to schooling from a Christian perspective

The incarnation and education as acts of weaving: Towards a comprehensive approach to schooling from a Christian perspective

Christianity’s Content: (Neo)Platonism in the Middle Ages, Its Theoretical and Theological Appeal

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