{"title":"Suspension of a Conflict in a Darkened Son","authors":"Chandler D. Rogers","doi":"10.24193/diakrisis.2020.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/diakrisis.2020.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":413875,"journal":{"name":"Diakrisis Yearbook of Theology and Philosophy","volume":"10 2-3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125208922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cyril of Alexandria and Julian the Emperor in dialogue for the ancient Greek philosophy and paganism","authors":"Eirini Artemi","doi":"10.24193/diakrisis.2020.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/diakrisis.2020.6","url":null,"abstract":"In the 5th century, Cyril of Alexandria wrote a large apologetic work, as a response to Julian the Apostate’s anti-Christian work Against the Galileans. Aside from the obvious divide of one being a Christian and one a pagan, second century by Celsus and by Porphyry in the third, and he regarded the relations between Neoplatonic criticism of Christian Word. As a pagan, Julian had adopted the Platonic and Neoplatonic conception of the one God. Cyril doesn’t stack up against the Platonic one. Cyril’s goal in responding invokes precisely the evidence of Platonist philosophers in favor of the Trinitarian doctrine. Cyril shows, unlike Julian, that the Greek philosophers accept the three principal hypostases and using the term triad, they agree with Christian teaching. So, ancient philosophers as Porphyry supported that the substance of the divinity has proceeded towards three hypostases. Cyril doesn’t only confront Julian’s view against Christian, but he also con“spermatic logos.” In this paper, we will examine this two works, “Against the Galileans” of Julian and “Against Julian” of Cyril, not only from their the possible logical arguments, in supporting the positions of Julian and Cyril in a legal struggle.","PeriodicalId":413875,"journal":{"name":"Diakrisis Yearbook of Theology and Philosophy","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122025062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theo-Phenomenology of Love in Fr. Dumitru Stæniloae’s Thought","authors":"Nicolae Turcan","doi":"10.24193/DIAKRISIS.2019.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/DIAKRISIS.2019.5","url":null,"abstract":"In reading Father Dumitru Stăniloae, it is obvious that love and divine-human communion have a prominent role in his theology. This text aims to approach this topic from a phenomenological point of view: it analyzes the implicit reductions working in Stăniloae’s texts, the presence of the intentionality, the role of the ego and its limits, as well as the problem of the reciprocity of love (raised by Jean-Luc Marion). We will try to argue not only that there are phenomenological influences in Stăniloae’s understanding of love, but also that such a topic requires a phenomenology that synthesizes the phenomenology of the world (Husserl and Heidegger) and the phenomenology of life (M. Henry). Because love, in its perfection, is a gift of the Holy Spirit, both types of phenomenology must be complemented with a dialogical and paradoxical one, a theo-phenomenology of love, where the Given can be invisible, living, eternally saturated, and never reducible to an object or to a concept. \u0000Keywords: Dumitru Stăniloae, Jean-Luc Marion, love, erotic reduction, theological counter-reduction, reciprocity of love, spiritual life, phenomenology","PeriodicalId":413875,"journal":{"name":"Diakrisis Yearbook of Theology and Philosophy","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129324771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jesus Christus im Hinduismus","authors":"M. Calin","doi":"10.24193/DIAKRISIS.2019.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/DIAKRISIS.2019.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":413875,"journal":{"name":"Diakrisis Yearbook of Theology and Philosophy","volume":"562 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120939249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Relationship of the Old Testament Prophets with Civil Authorities","authors":"Cătălin Varga","doi":"10.24193/DIAKRISIS.2019.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/DIAKRISIS.2019.6","url":null,"abstract":"The present study aims to analyze from a different point of view the already established message, the theological message behind the episode \"Naboth’s Vineyard\". For this, we propose to look strictly from the perspective of Old Testament culture, the relationship between the prophet of God and the representative of civil authority, insisting on the particularity of human rights (as they were left by God in the Torah). We pay close attention to whether they are widely respected, and if not, we try to identify the moment when their violation occurs and the synchronic reasons behind the delegitimization actions of the concept. The case of Naboth's vineyard is taken as a case study, in which we highlight the corrupt games of the corrupt king Ahab, which facilitated the dispossession of the parental legacy and finally the murder of the grape grower Nabot. At the same time, we strengthen the indisputable need of the prophet, who is stepping forward, ready to face the cost of life, corruption, and monarchical immorality, in order to rebalance the social balance of Israel. \u0000Keywords: Naboth’s Vineyard, Civile Authorities, Prophets, Human Rights, Mission","PeriodicalId":413875,"journal":{"name":"Diakrisis Yearbook of Theology and Philosophy","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126135936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Moral interiority” and self-realization","authors":"Martina Galvani","doi":"10.24193/DIAKRISIS.2019.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/DIAKRISIS.2019.4","url":null,"abstract":"The ethics perspective which I shall focus on in this chapter is necessarily founded on Stein’s investigations about the human spiritual dimension, in which her phenomenological and metaphysical-theological research are synthesized. Stein describes the human being as “essentially spiritual”, namely intellect and will. In fact, he can comprehend reality in its “meaning” (Sinn) and act freely in it. The ethical consequences of Stein’s anthropological reflections will be explained through what we shall call “moral interiority”. Following Augustine, Stein perceives the original consciousness of oneself (interiority) as \"an inner place, not a place\" (interiore loco, non loco), where to start explaining intellective knowledge, and most of all free acting and consequently ethics. Action is not just expressed outwards, and is first of all self-actuation – acting and being are mutually implied. The direction of moral actions is thus already present in the ‘essence’ (Wesen) of each individual and this essence, thanks to the creative ‘essentiality’ (Wesenheiten), is ab eterno in the Logos. In view of this complex theological node, the purpose of this essay is to show how we can say, with Stein, that Christ incarnates the only possible ethics. \u0000Keywords: Edith Stein, phenomenological anthropology, essence, meaning, Logos, interiority, ethic","PeriodicalId":413875,"journal":{"name":"Diakrisis Yearbook of Theology and Philosophy","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117020501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Divine Intra-Trinitarian Love, a Model for the Christian Marital Love","authors":"Gavril Trifa","doi":"10.24193/DIAKRISIS.2019.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/DIAKRISIS.2019.7","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, there has been a worldwide increase in young people’s interest in sexuality to the detriment of love, which is now frequently read as physical desire. Cultural and socio-economic changes have led to teenagers’ becoming sexually active at increasingly younger ages, and studies have shown that more and more teenagers in Romania, similar to all European countries, begin their sex lives before marriage, which leads to the growth of not only the number of one’s sexual partners and of sexually transmitted diseases but also of so-called “unwanted” pregnancies. What this paper aims to do is to promote love as the core value of Christianity and family unity. Love is the main goal of human life and the means to acknowledge the divine spark in others. Love is also essential to the foundation of the Christian family. Created in God’s image, man and woman constantly strive to resemble their primordial model, particularly with respect to love. Moreover, God, in His unity of tri-personal communion, is a role model for the Christian family who perfectly mirrors it, while Christ mediates the communion between the Holy Trinity and the members of the family. Love is the supreme gift that spouses can share, a gift that can contribute to their spiritual growth and that can keep the two together for life. \u0000Keywords: Holy Trinity, divine, love, Christian family, unity, model","PeriodicalId":413875,"journal":{"name":"Diakrisis Yearbook of Theology and Philosophy","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132872573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Factuality and the Beyond of God","authors":"S. Lehmann","doi":"10.24193/DIAKRISIS.2019.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/DIAKRISIS.2019.3","url":null,"abstract":"This article stages the confrontation of two approaches to thinking the absolute. On the one hand, it discusses Quentin Meillassoux’s speculative materialism. In suggesting that there is no ultimate ground of being and that only contingency is necessary, Meillassoux takes the notion of the irreducible character of the absolute to its extreme and aporetic consequences. By contrast, I will outline an alternative account of the absolute. Like Meillassoux, I will suggest that the question of the absolute is intrinsically linked to the question of factuality. Yet, in this case, factuality leads to the notion of the beyond of God as the ground of being, inscribing into being the dynamic of a continuous inner transcendence. \u0000Keywords: factuality, transcendence, philosophy of existence, the absolute, Quentin Meillassoux, speculative materialism","PeriodicalId":413875,"journal":{"name":"Diakrisis Yearbook of Theology and Philosophy","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114636538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Negation as Infinite Affirmation","authors":"Grigore Dinu Moș","doi":"10.24193/DIAKRISIS.2019.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/DIAKRISIS.2019.2","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to identify the meaning of negation in Dionysius the Areopagite’s apophatism: how and towards which reality does it orient contemplation and what does it actually say about God who reveals Himself? My fundamental thesis is that, in fact, apophatic negation in Dionysius the Areopagite’s teachings, as well as in those of other Eastern fathers conceals a super-affirmation, it indicates an infinite affirmation, beyond any determination. The meaning of the apophatic negation can be grasped at the confluence of three specific supra-intelligible terms: the alterity, the transcendence and the excess (the infinity). \u0000Keywords: apophatic theology, Dionysius the Areopagite, Eastern Orthodox Tradition, alterity, transcendence, infinity","PeriodicalId":413875,"journal":{"name":"Diakrisis Yearbook of Theology and Philosophy","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114967017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Divine Injustice","authors":"William C. Woody","doi":"10.24193/diakrisis.2019.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/diakrisis.2019.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":413875,"journal":{"name":"Diakrisis Yearbook of Theology and Philosophy","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129941601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}