The Development of Doctrine in Palamite Theology (section of a longer article) (original) (raw)

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The Palamite Controversy: A Thomistic Analysis

This is my STL thesis. Here I give an overview of the history (and historiography) of the Palamite controversy. I then examine the Thomistic doctrine of divine simplicity (with special focus on the "distinction of reasoned reason" among the divine attributes) and how a simple God can be active in creation. I then use this understanding to answer some standard Palamite objections to the Thomistic position, and critique some Palamite proposals. Though critical of the philosophical options of Palamism, I conclude that this controversy should not be a church-dividing issue, because it pertains not to central theological affirmations themselves (which Thomists and Palamites share). Rather it should be seen as a "school dispute" about how best to use philosophy to articulate this shared theological understanding.

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Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference "History and Theology"

Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference „History and Theology” Constanţa (Romania) November 17-18, 2020, 2021

This proceedings volume of an International conference held in Constanta, Romania in 2020 and published in 2021 contains articles connected to Christian religion and archaeology, martyrs and other church personalities. The chronological period covered 3rd c. AD to the early 19th century.

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Christian Doctrine : Its Genesis and its Enduring Relevance

2011

At the occasion of the first translation of the Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine in Slovene, the author attempts to outline the biographical and historical background of the Essay, its central propositions and its many-sided importance. The idea of development was the most important single idea which Newman contributed to the thought of the Christian Church, being an expression of that shift from static to dynamic conceptions of Christianity which was characteristic of the period. It is worth noticing that the Development was published fourteen years before Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859). Nearly every study of doctrinal development continues to ackowledge the seminal influence of the book and its creative view of the problem of change and continuity in Christian doctrine. The Essay, written immediately before Newman entered the Roman Catholic Church (1845), was intended to give his reasons for becoming a Roman Catholic and to help others in the same position as hims...

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