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Self-Knowledge, Who God Is, and a Cure for our Deepest Shame: A Few Reflections on Till We Have Faces 自知之明，上帝是谁，以及治愈我们最深的羞耻:直到我们有脸的一些反思

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Perichoresis Pub Date : 2022-05-19 DOI: 10.2478/perc-2022-0014

David J. Baggett, M. Baggett

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The Mystery of Grace: A Theological Reading of C. S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces 恩典的奥秘:c·s·刘易斯《直到我们有脸》的神学解读

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Perichoresis Pub Date : 2022-05-19 DOI: 10.2478/perc-2022-0019

Caroline J. Simon

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Reflecting Christ in Life and Art: The Divine Dance of Self-Giving in C. S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces 在生活和艺术中反映基督:c.s.刘易斯《直到我们有脸》中自我奉献的神圣舞蹈

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Perichoresis Pub Date : 2022-05-19 DOI: 10.2478/perc-2022-0018

Megan Joy Rials, J. Walls

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Sehnsucht as Signpost: The Autobiographical Impulse of C. S. Lewis 《路标:c·s·刘易斯的自传冲动》

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Perichoresis Pub Date : 2022-05-19 DOI: 10.2478/perc-2022-0016

Andrew Lazo

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The Aristotelian Conception of Natural Law and Its Reception in Early Protestant Commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics 亚里士多德的自然法观念及其在早期新教《尼各马可伦理学注释》中的接受

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Perichoresis Pub Date : 2022-05-09 DOI: 10.2478/perc-2022-0007

Manfred Svensson

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‘Vestiges of the Divine Light’: Girolamo Zanchi, Richard Hooker, and a Reformed Thomistic Natural Law Theory 《神圣之光的遗迹》:吉罗拉莫·桑奇、理查德·胡克和改革后的托马斯主义自然法理论

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Perichoresis Pub Date : 2022-05-09 DOI: 10.2478/perc-2022-0009

Bradford Littlejohn

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Pagans and Theologians: An Examination of the Use of Christian Sources in Niels Hemmingsen’s De Lege Naturae 异教徒和神学家:对尼尔斯·海明森《自然法》中基督教资料使用的考察

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Perichoresis Pub Date : 2022-05-09 DOI: 10.2478/perc-2022-0010

E. Hutchinson

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‘All Things Are Lawful’: Adiaphora, Permissive Natural Law, Christian Freedom, and Defending the English Reformation “一切都是合法的”:Adiaphora，宽容的自然法，基督教自由，捍卫英国的宗教改革

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Perichoresis Pub Date : 2022-05-09 DOI: 10.2478/perc-2022-0011

P. Dominiak

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The Role of Nature in New England Puritan Theology: The Case of Samuel Willard 自然在新英格兰清教徒神学中的作用:以塞缪尔·威拉德为例

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Perichoresis Pub Date : 2022-05-09 DOI: 10.2478/perc-2022-0013

S. Wolfe

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John Calvin on the Intersection of Natural, Roman, and Mosaic Law 约翰·加尔文论自然法、罗马法和摩西法的交集

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Perichoresis Pub Date : 2022-05-09 DOI: 10.2478/perc-2022-0008

David S. Sytsma

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