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Preview of new book chapter to be published by Springer Nature in Oct 2019

Posted on August 6, 2019 by romeosyne

Just posted preview of my new book chapter to be published in Oct.: https://www.academia.edu/40024181/Kelley_J._L._2019_._I_have_to_be_all_things_to_all_people_Jim_Jones_nurture_failure_and_apocalypticism._In_Mayer_C.-H._and_Kovary_Z._Eds._._New_trends_in_psychobiography_pp._363-379_._Cham_Switzerland_Springer.

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My article “Theology East and West” translated into Romanian

Posted on June 26, 2018 by romeosyne

Romanian writer Ninel Ganea has just rendered my article “Theology East and West” (which was originally excerpted from my book Anatomyzing Divinity by Father Deacon Christopher Banks on his blog) into Romanian here: http://karamazov.ro/index.php/religie/569-teologie-politic-in-est-i-in-vest.html. Onward and upward, J. Kelley

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Logos as Pronoian: St Athanasius and Natural Science

Posted on January 30, 2018 by romeosyne

St Athanasius in Contra Gentes spoke about the illuminated as those who view God’s forethought or “pronoian” by seeing divinity reflected in the pure human nous. In illumination, man views everything in the context of his pure, constant, unchanging union … Continue reading →

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Giambattista Vico’s Three Ages: A Brief Exposition

Posted on January 29, 2018 by romeosyne

Vico is famous for his teaching that all human cultures inevitably develop along the same three stages: an age of gods, an age of heroes, and an age of men. This Vico calls corso e ricorso. What I am offering … Continue reading →

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GIAMBATTISTA VICO: METAPHYSICIAN OF THE HUMAN

Posted on January 26, 2018 by romeosyne

Few outside the academy know anything about Giambattista Vico (1668-1744), though he is undoubtedly the greatest Italian philosopher of his time, and is arguably one of the greatest philosophical minds to ever hail from Italy. Before the middle of the … Continue reading →

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LOGOI IN HELL: WHAT IS THE ORTHODOX TEACHING ABOUT ETERNAL DAMNATION, AND HOW DO LOGOI FIT IN?

Posted on January 17, 2018 by romeosyne

The Orthodox tradition is silent about whether or not in heaven we will receive any scientific knowledge about proportions in nature that are alleged to correspond to divine forms. In hell, however, we can “live” eternally according to Augustino-Platonic ratios, … Continue reading →

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AUGUSTINIAN LOGOI VERSUS ORTHODOX LOGOI: A COMMENT

Posted on January 14, 2018 by romeosyne

The logoi spoken of by Augustine are “rationes seminales,” the seeds of development that make sure an embryo develops correctly into an adult (but also, they make sure movements of inanimate objects are orderly). This kind of logoi is fine … Continue reading →

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DESULTORY THOUGHTS, PART THREE: THE PROBLEM OF THE LOGOI OR PREDETERMINATIONS OF GOD

Posted on January 11, 2018 by romeosyne

It is very important for anyone who thinks that the logoi doctrine is a bridge between Orthodoxy, on the one hand, and Western metaphysics, on the other hand, to heed what I am about to say: The Orthodox have always … Continue reading →

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DESULTORY THOUGHTS, PART TWO: EARLY CHURCH FATHERS, HELLENIC WISDOM, AND “PLATONIC ORIENTALISM”

Posted on January 9, 2018 by romeosyne

In some early writers like Origen, Clement of Alexandria, and even St. Justin Martyr, we find the idea that the Logos Christ is the completion of a truth that was available in a smaller dose to everyone through reason and … Continue reading →

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DESULTORY THOUGHTS ON SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE, AUGUSTINE, LOGOI, POLITICAL THEOLOGY, AND “WHO IS A CHURCH FATHER?”

Posted on January 6, 2018 by romeosyne

No Father of the Church has ever held that investigation of nature through the senses per sé renders any  knowledge that exceeds the probable. To aid the seeker in achieving natural theoria in preparation for the vision of God, Clement … Continue reading →

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