The Sacramental Approach to the Sacred in Thomistic Perspective
TL;DR: The main challenge of theology is the adequate manner of the transmission of what is sacred and belongs to the transcendent order by means of appropriate categories of immanent religious language as discussed by the authors.
About: This article is published in Religion.The article was published on 2021-01-10 and is currently open access. It has received 10 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Analogy & Christian theology.
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TL;DR: Mackenzie and Poltera as mentioned in this paper argued that some form of narrative self-interpretation is required for a fulfilling, well-lived life and argued that such selfinterpretation can capture descriptively the ways in which human agents experience and make sense of their lives.
Abstract: Catriona Mackenzie and Jacqui Poltera’s discussion of narrative integration and identity takes up a wide range of issues. It advances objections against Galen Strawson’s critique of narrative identity and defends both the claim that some narrative conception of identity can capture descriptively the ways in which human agents experience and make sense of their lives and also the claim that some form of narrative self-interpretation is required for a fulfilling, well-lived life. In defending these claims, Mackenzie and Poltera appeal, in part, to Elyn Saks’s autobiographical account of her long, on-going struggle with schizophrenia and the significance of this struggle for her selfunderstanding (Saks 2007). According to the authors,
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TL;DR: Imaginative Apologetics: Theology, Philosophy, and the Catholic Tradition by Andrew Davison as mentioned in this paper is an attempt to revivify the apologetic effort by engaging the lived experience of the whole person.
Abstract: Imaginative Apologetics: Theology, Philosophy, and the Catholic Tradition. Edited by Andrew Davison. Foreword by John Milbank. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic, 2011. 169 pp. $24.75 (paper).Imaginative Apologetics, edited by Andrew Davison (Cambridge, Westcott House), was written for those theologians who have lost hope in Christian apologetics. Perceived by many like Craig Hovey as "quasi-legal defences of a certain sort of self-confident Protestant who went around armed with a hundred and one proofs for Jesus rising from the dead" (p. 98), apologetics has suffered from an understandable unpopularity. At least in the Englishspeaking world, apologetics has been preoccupied with questions of religious epistemology and, in some quarters, discussions pertaining to the veracity of claims to the miraculous. In the 1990s, one Evangelical philosopher was known to give an annual lecture and slide-show on the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin. Aside from these rather niche concerns, and a recent uptake in polemical writings by cultural critics like David Bentley Hart, Christian apologetics lost its flavor with most theologians decades ago.In contrast to the above form of apologetics, the authors of Imaginative Apologetics argue that in abandoning apologetics theologians have given up not an ancillary project, but an essential aspect of first order theological discourse. Confessional persuasion, as John Milbank writes in his foreword, is "the imaginative presentation of belief (p. xiv), which must deal robustly with both the kataphatic and apophatic aspects of Christian belief, giving over neither to simple demonstrations of evidence, nor to "sorry" apologies. Rather, as Andrew Davison explains, an imaginative apologetics attempts to "embrace the whole of human reason and takes an expansive view of what it means to be a human being" (p. xxviii).Taking up this charge to revivify the apologetic effort by engaging the lived experience of the whole person, Imaginative Apologetics does not disappoint. Readers will find chapters on such topics as (1) proofs in relation to faith (John Hughes); (2) the Christian roots and communal character of reason (Andrew Davison); (3) the liturgical imagination, a la J. R. R. Tolkien, as a mode of apologetics (Alison Milbank); (4) literature as a field of apologetic activity (Donna Lazenby); (5) the relationship of reason and imagination in service of the will for C. S. Lewis (Michael Ward); (6) Gaudium et Spes and the pastoral response to atheism (Stephen Bullivant); (7) Christian life and moral formation as apologetics (Craig Hovey); (8) the relevance of cultural hermeneutics for proclaiming the Gospel (Graham Ward); (9) high points in the history of apologetics in the Christian theological tradition (Richard Conrad, O. …
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Abstract: Kultura i turystyka. Sacrum i profanum to publikacja poświecona glownie, nie dośc docenianej do niedawna przez przedstawicieli nauk spolecznych i humanistycznych, kulturze duchowej jako wycinka dziedzictwa danej spoleczności, ktore ta uznaje jako wlasne i dostarczające poczucie tozsamości, przekazywane drogą transmisji miedzypokoleniowej. To wciąz zywe i odtwarzane w autentycznych kontekstach elementy zgodne ze wspolczesnymi standardami praw czlowieka.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of the first edition of Theology and Liberalism: Theology I: From Malebranche to Durkheim, Theology II: From Kant to Weber and Theology III: For and Against Marx.
Abstract: Acknowledgements for the First Edition. Preface to the Second Edition. Introduction. Part I: Theology and Liberalism:. 1. Political Theology and the New Science of Politics. 2. Political Economy as Theodicy and Agonistics. Part II: Theology and Positivism:. 3. Sociology I: From Malebranche to Durkheim. 4. Sociology II: From Kant to Weber. 5. Policing the Sublime: A Critique of the Sociology of Religion. Part III: Theology and Dialectics:. 6. For and Against Hegel. 7. For and Against Marx. 8. Founding the Supernatural: Political and Liberation Theology in the Context of Modern Catholic Thought. Part IV: Theology and Difference:. 9. Science, Reality and Power. 10. Ontological Violence or, The Post-Modern Problematic. 11. Difference of Virtue, Virtue of Difference. 12. The Other City: Theology as a Social Science. Index of Names.
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TL;DR: Mackenzie and Poltera as mentioned in this paper argued that some form of narrative self-interpretation is required for a fulfilling, well-lived life and argued that such selfinterpretation can capture descriptively the ways in which human agents experience and make sense of their lives.
Abstract: Catriona Mackenzie and Jacqui Poltera’s discussion of narrative integration and identity takes up a wide range of issues. It advances objections against Galen Strawson’s critique of narrative identity and defends both the claim that some narrative conception of identity can capture descriptively the ways in which human agents experience and make sense of their lives and also the claim that some form of narrative self-interpretation is required for a fulfilling, well-lived life. In defending these claims, Mackenzie and Poltera appeal, in part, to Elyn Saks’s autobiographical account of her long, on-going struggle with schizophrenia and the significance of this struggle for her selfunderstanding (Saks 2007). According to the authors,
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"The Sacramental Approach to the Sac..." refers background in this paper
...This is not a contradiction of the literal sense of Scripture but a way of discovering it....
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...Thomas explains this in the “Prologue to the Commentary on the Psalms” by distinguishing the modi dicendi present in the Scriptures in order not to take, for example, statements of a poetic nature literally....
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...The reader of Scripture enacts in his/her life what is read in the history of salvation and ultimately serves the transformation of Christians (Wright 2015, p. 21)....
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...As MacIntyre observed, “the reader thus discovers him or herself inside the Scripture” (MacIntyre 1990, p. 83)....
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...All human actions (poiesis) are drawn from God’s creating power (Milbank 1994, pp. 304–5)....
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