[PDF] Creatio Ergo Sum eBook

Author : John Chryssavgis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 21,75 MB
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567699110

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Based on a constructive reading of Scripture, the apostolic and patristic traditions and deeply rooted in the sacramental experience and spiritual ethos of the Orthodox Church, John Zizioulas offers a timely anthropological and cosmological perspective of human beings as “priests of creation” in addressing the current ecological crisis. Given the critical and urgent character of the global crisis and by adopting a clear line of argumentation, Zizioulas describes a vision based on a compassionate and incarnational conception of the human beings as liturgical beings, offering creation to God for the life of the world. He encourages the need for deeper interaction with modern science, from which theology stands to gain an appreciation of the interconnection of every aspect of materiality and life with humankind. The result is an articulate and promising vision that inspires a new ethos, or way of life, to overcome our alienation from the rest of creation.

Author : Cindy K. Renker
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 12,18 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN :

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This dissertation investigates the notion of creation as an overarching theme in Paul Celan's oeuvre. My reading of both romantic works and Celan's post-Holocaust writings argues that Celan's dialectic of creation and destruction was informed by the romantics' conception of language and creation which in turn becomes a (re)encounter for this German-Jewish Holocaust poet and his readers. The romantic works studied shed light on the movement's continued influence and relevance, even after the great caesura of the twentieth century. Based on my research in Celan's personal library and letters, which bears traces of his reading of romantic works, I argue for the poet's affinity to this movement, its notions and motifs. In his poetic writing, Celan relies on romantic conceptions and topoi and "translates" them into his own unique idiom for testimony and commemoration; he also employs them to impart substance to his own existence as exile, Jew, and survivor after "that which happened"--and to make up for his personal losses. By examining the romantics' poetic language theory, appropriation of the Prometheus myth and golem legend, I show how they inform Celan's perception of poetic creation. While the introductory chapter puts forth my goal for the multi-layered study of Celan's writing, I also argue for the influence of Celan's upbringing and homeland as having shaped his grounding in Western tradition and romanticism in particular. In Chapter Two I explore the poet's enigmatic language creations and his employment of the language of silence which echo romantic language theory. Chapter Three argues for Celan's appropriation of the Prometheus myth through the lens of romanticism. Particularly the romantics' conception of the Promethean notions of creation, suffering, wandering, and exile manifest themselves in Celan's writing and provide the poet with the means to define his own and humanity's existence after Auschwitz. In the last chapter, I examine how the idea of the golem serves Celan's conception of creation and language, interconnected in the creation process of the man-like creature, which resembles the Muselmann. For the poet, the Kabbalistic tale, a favorite of the romantics, becomes a vehicle to reclaim the dead and humanity.

Author : Whitney Bauman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 11,97 MB
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1135839875

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Winner of the John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, 2009 This book argues that the Christian doctrine of creatio ex nihilo (creation out of nothing) sets up a support system for a "logic of domination" toward human and earth others. Conceptually inspired by the work of theologian Catherine Keller and feminist philosopher of the environment Val Plumwood, it follows a genealogical method in examining how the concept of creation out of nothing materializes in the world throughout different periods in the history of the Christian West.

Author : Vladimir Lossky
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 46,26 MB
Release : 2024-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0227179773

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Vladimir Lossky’s posthumously published masterwork is now made available in English for the first time. Eckhart’s Negative Theology is the culmination of a long process, whereby the renowned Orthodox philosopher and theologian embraced the ways of thinking of a thirteenth-century German monk and mystic. While refusing to simplify Eckhart’s theology to a system or single motif, Lossky explores in detail the various ramifications of Eckhart’s insistence on the ineffability of God. Is God to be regarded as ‘being’, or the ‘One’, or ‘Intellect’? Does God’s pure expression of each of these preclude the others? Framed by six key statements about God’s essence, Lossky lays out Eckhart’s approach to this dilemma. His understanding of the problem, guided by careful engagement with a multitude of sources, is exhaustive. Scholars will welcome this eagerly-anticipated translation.

Author : Jonathan Irvine Israel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 12,84 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0198206089

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Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - in the wake of the Scientific Revolution - of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophyand the philosophes, culminating in Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. In this revolutionary process which effectively overthrew all justicfication for monarchy, aristocracy, and ecclesiastical power, as well as man's dominance over woman, theological dominance of education, and slavery, substitutingthe modern principles of equality, democracy, and universality, the Radical Enlightenment played a crucially important part. Despite the present day interest in the revolutions of the late eighteenth century, the origins and rise of the Radical Enlightenment have been astonishingly little studieddoubtless largely because of its very wide international sweep and the obvious difficulty of fitting in into the restrictive conventions of 'national history' which until recently tended to dominate all historiography. The greatest obstacle to the Radical Enlightenment finding its proper place inmodern historical writing is simply that it was not French, British, German, Italian, Jewish or Dutch, but all of these at the same time. In this novel interpretation of the Radical Enlightenment down to La Mettie and Diderot, two of its key exponents, particular stress is placed on the pivotal roleof Spinoza and the widespread underground international philosophical movement known before 1750 as Spinozism.