Speaking the Incomprehensible God

Speaking the Incomprehensible God
Author: Gregory P Rocca
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2004
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0813213673

Gregory Rocca's nuanced discussion prevents Aquinas's thought from being capsulized in familiar slogans and is an antidote to unilateralist or monochrome views about God-talk.

The Darkness of God

The Darkness of God
Author: Denys Turner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1995
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780521645614

A closely argued book about what the negative tradition in Western theology involves.

Speaking of God in Thomas Aquinas and Meister Eckhart

Speaking of God in Thomas Aquinas and Meister Eckhart
Author: Anastasia Wendlinder
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2016-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1317051408

Medieval masters Thomas Aquinas and Meister Eckhart considered problems inherent to speaking of God, exploring how religious language might compromise God's transcendence or God's immanence ultimately hindering believers in their journey of faith seeking understanding. Going beyond ordinary readings of Aquinas and building a foundation for further insights into the works of both theologians, this book draws out the implications of the thought of Eckhart and Aquinas for contemporary issues, including ecumenical and inter-religious dialogue, liturgy and prayer, and religious inclusivity. Reading Aquinas and Eckhart in light of each other reveals the profound depth and orthodoxy of both of these scholars and provides a novel approach to many theological and practical religious issues.

All That Is in God

All That Is in God
Author: James E. Dolezal
Publisher: Reformation Heritage Books
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2017-07-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1601785550

Unknown to many, increasing numbers of conservative evangelicals are denying basic tenets of classical Christian teaching about God, with departures occurring even among those of the Calvinistic persuasion. James E. Dolezal’s All That Is in God provides an exposition of the historic Christian position while engaging with these contemporary deviations. His convincing critique of the newer position he styles “theistic mutualism” is philosophically robust, systematically nuanced, and biblically based. It demonstrates the need to maintain the traditional viewpoint, particularly on divine simplicity, and spotlights the unfortunate implications for other important Christian doctrines—such as divine eternality and the Trinity—if it were to be abandoned. Arguing carefully and cogently that “all that is in God is God Himself,” the work is sure to stimulate debate on the issue in years to come.

Two Guides for the Journey

Two Guides for the Journey
Author: Sheryl Overmyer
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2016-10-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 149822900X

Thomas Aquinas and William Langland inherited the dynamic metaphor of journeying as a fundamental concept of the Christian life and harnessed it to animate their magisterial texts: the Summa Theologiae and Piers Plowman. Christians' journey back to God consists in the way of charity, yet it is far from straightforward or sequential. Rather, it is impinged upon by epistemic ambiguity, our willful continued habits of resistance, and inherent limitations on our perfection. In sum, the virtues are divine gifts humanly received, treasure in earthen vessels. Together these authors show the complexity we ourselves will find along this life's journey, enable our understanding to appreciate that complexity, and in limited ways cultivate in us the virtues they describe.

A Theology of the Presence and Absence of God

A Theology of the Presence and Absence of God
Author: Anthony J. Godzieba
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2018-05-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0814663826

In a consumer-driven and technologized world, can we still experience the mystery of God? This book answers yes by exploring the rich resources of the Christian tradition of thinking and speaking about God. Focusing on God’s dialectical character—divine availability (“presence”) and divine excess (“absence”)—and the belief that “God is love” (1 John 4:16), professor Anthony J. Godzieba tracks how God became a problem in Western culture, then responds by showing how human experience is open to divine transcendence and how that openness encounters the revelation of God as Trinity. The book’s contemporary edge comes from its insistence that belief as embodied performance is the most authentic way to participate in the mystery of God’s love, which is “the answer to the mystery of the world and human beings” (Walter Kasper).

The Mystery of Union with God

The Mystery of Union with God
Author: Bernhard Blankenhorn
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2015
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0813227496

The Mystery of Union with God offers the most extensive, systematic analysis to date of how Albert and Thomas interpreted and transformed the Dionysian Moses "who knows God by unknowing." It shows Albert's and Thomas's philosophical and theological motives to place limits on Dionysian apophatism and to reintegrate mediated knowledge into mystical knowing. The author surfaces many similarities in the two Dominicans' mystical doctrines and exegesis of Dionysius. This work prepares the way for a new consideration of Albert the Great as the father of Rhineland Mysticism. The original presentation of Aquinas's theology of the Spirit's seven gifts breaks new ground in theological scholarship. Finally, the entire book lays out a model for the study of mystical theology from a historical, philosophical and doctrinal perspective.

What Can We Know about God?

What Can We Know about God?
Author: R. C. Sproul
Publisher: Reformation Trust Publishing
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2019-03-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781642890624

Jesus said that knowing God is essential. The fact that God exists is obvious from creation, but in order to know who God is, we must learn what He has revealed about Himself in the Bible. In this booklet, Dr. R.C. Sproul explains what Scripture teaches about God's nature, will, and attributes, presenting a glorious picture of the one true God--the God we are called to know, trust, and obey. The Crucial Questions booklet series by Dr. R.C. Sproul offers succinct answers to important questions often asked by Christians and thoughtful inquirers.

Retrieving Nicaea

Retrieving Nicaea
Author: Khaled Anatolios
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2011-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 080103132X

The Art of Isis Sousa & Guests is a highly inspirational tool for you who are a Fantasy Art lover and are developing your artistic skills.The book is bound with beautiful, high-end Fantasy and Dark Fantasy works from Isis Sousa and renowned guests: Uwe Jarling, Kirsi Salonen, Jezabel Nekranea, Ertaç Altinöz, Rochelle Green, Alexander Nanitchkov, Marius Bota, Marilena Mexi, Mariana Veira and Nathie Block.Take a learning and insightful journey through the dozens of tips, articles, tutorials, lectures, video classes and nonetheless, fantastic artworks which make this one-of-a-kind art-book experience.

Hidden and Revealed

Hidden and Revealed
Author: Dmytro Bintsarovskyi
Publisher: Lexham Press
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2021-07-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1683594908

A major contribution to ecumenical reflection on the doctrine of God. The past century has seen renewed interest in the doctrine of God. While theological traditions disagree, their shared commitment to Nicene orthodoxy provides a common language for thinking and speaking about God. This dialogue has deepened our understanding of this shared way of thinking about God, but little has been done across ecumenical lines to explore God's hiddenness in revelation. In Hidden and Revealed, Dmytro Bintsarovskyi explores the hiddenness and revelation of God in two separate theological streams—Reformed and Orthodox. Bintsarovskyi shows that an understanding of both traditions reflects a deep structure of shared language, history, and commitments, while nevertheless reflecting real differences. With Herman Bavinck and John Meyendorff as his guides, Bintsarovskyi advances ecumenical dialogue on a doctrine central to our knowledge of God.