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22Reliable knowledge, true freedom: The remnant of the analogia temporalis in the theology of Robert W. Jenson and its implications for the epistemology-freedom debateScottish Journal of Theology 73 (3). 2020.While Karl Barth balances the reliability of revelation with divine counterfactual freedom through the _analogia temporalis_, Robert Jenson rejects this form of analogy, arguing that it posits an unknowable reality of God behind revelation. He instead transposes metaphysics into narratological terms, arguing that this secures the reliability of revelation _and_ divine freedom, since it means God is future to (and so undetermined by) events in time. This metric for divine freedom cannot, however,…Read more
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5Divine Freedom and Revelation in Christ: The Doctrine of Eternity with Special Reference to the Theology of Karl BarthVandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 2022.Christianity claims that the incarnation provides reliable knowledge about God but also that the incarnation was undertaken freely and thus need not have happened. Alexander Garton-Eisenacher resolves this tension between epistemological reliability and divine freedom, building particularly from the work of Karl Barth. Garton-Eisenacher offers a fresh reading of the Church Dogmatics that demonstrates how Barth’s theology provides a promising starting point but notes that his argument is ultimate…Read more
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7Transformative RepetitionsNeue Zeitschrift für Systematicsche Theologie Und Religionsphilosophie 66 (2): 154-178. 2024.This article analyses the parallels between the pre-Qin Daoist notion of heng 恒 as a constancy that is nevertheless ceaselessly in motion, and Karl Barth’s concept of Beständigkeit as God’s constancy throughout infinite transformation. Underlying both concepts is an understanding of the ultimate origin (whether dao 道 or the Christian God) as irreducibly temporal in nature. Stemming from this conviction, both systems of thought ultimately identify the continuous change of the ultimate origin with…Read more
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9Time transcending tense: An examination of heng 恒 in pre-Qin Daoist philosophyAsian Philosophy 1-17. forthcoming.Recent scholarship on the philosophy of time in pre-Qin Daoist thought has not yet produced a thorough examination of dao’s relationship to time. This essay resolves this omission through a systematic study of the concept heng 恒 in pre-Qin Daoist literature. While principally expressing the ‘constancy’ of dao, heng also significantly presupposes dao’s ability to change. This change is characterized in the texts as a cyclical movement of ‘return’ and identified with the universe’s circular metana…Read more
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Divine Eternity |
Metaphysics |
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Christianity |
Philosophy of Religion |