{"title":"Two Brains: Scientific Balance and Visionary Insight in Friedrich Nietzsche and Eberhard Arnold","authors":"Bryan Wandel","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14416","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Friedrich Nietzsche and Eberhard Arnold, founder of the Bruderhof communities, both struggled with a tension between scientific, balanced analysis and a visionary call to a fuller experience of life. Nietzsche moved from a balance of Apollonian and Dionysian factors in life, to a unitary vision of the will to power and individual development. Arnold began with a balance of creation and re-creation, but shifted to a focus on the will to community. Arnold's path here highlights the need to respond to Nietzsche according to Nietzsche's own style, to address his concerns. But it also shows that the need to balance scientific and visionary modes of knowing may also require the deep community that Arnold proposes.</p>","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"66 3","pages":"299-312"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144245112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hoping on insufficient evidence: how epistemically rational can action-centred faith be?","authors":"Giorgio Volpe","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14414","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Daniel McKaughan has recently argued that conceiving faith as an ‘action-centred’ attitude whose cognitive component falls short of outright belief can play a central role in explaining how people who regard the truth of Christianity as significantly less probable than naturalism can respond with faith to the gospel proclamation without believing its core claims or presuppositions on insufficient evidence, and without violating the requirements of either pragmatic or epistemic rationality. In this paper I object to McKaughan that hope—the attitude to which he assigns the cognitive role of action-centred faith—is ill-suited for the intended purpose, and that having to the core claims and presuppositions of the gospel proclamation any attitude that <i>is</i> suited for the intended purpose is not going to leave a person who takes her overall evidence to run against some of those claims and presuppositions ‘free to follow the arguments and evidence where it leads’.</p>","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"66 3","pages":"238-252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/heyj.14414","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144245113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Participatory Metaphysics and Creation out of God","authors":"Hans Boersma","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14415","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In Aristotle's view, nothing comes from nothing (<i>ex nihilo nihil fit</i>). Both he and Plotinus thought, therefore, of the substratum (ὑποκείμενον) of matter as being eternal. Christian theology has consistently rejected this understanding of material causality through its teaching of creation out of nothing (<i>ex nihilo</i>). Theologians have parted ways, however, on how to understand the creator-creature relationship once eternal matter is rejected. The Augustinian-Thomist approach has rejected creation from God (<i>de deo</i>). This paper draws attention to an alternative tradition, that of Gregory of Nyssa and Maximus the Confessor, which thinks of creation as both out of nothing (ἐκ τοῦ μή) and out of God (ἐκ θεοῦ). This paper argues that a genuinely participatory metaphysic requires the combination of creation <i>ex nihilo</i> and <i>ex deo</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"66 3","pages":"253-274"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144244769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RESPONSE: Biocultural Evolution and Christian Ethics","authors":"Lisa Sowle Cahill","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14402","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Studies of the biogenetic concomitants of cultural, religious, and moral formation offer valuable insights for Christian ethics, regarding agency, moral dispositions and potential pathways of moral reform. This response considers the biogenetic effects of both just and unjust cultures and practices, and raises the question whether the former does or can outweigh and override the former, not only in individuals, but in societies and political communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"66 2","pages":"178-182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/heyj.14402","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143840665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paul and the Resurrected Body: Social Identity and Ethical Practice. By Matt O'Reilly. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2020. Pp. xii + 250. $61.00.","authors":"Jonathon Lookadoo","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14404","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"66 2","pages":"187-188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143840961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do We Still Need Inspiration? Scriptures and Theology. Edited by Martijn Beukenhorst, Camilla Recalcati, and Matthieu Richelle. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2024. Pp. 207. €109.95.","authors":"Paolo Monzani","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14413","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"66 2","pages":"204-205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143840628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Development of Dogma: A Systemic Account. By Guy Mansini. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2023. Pp. x, 192. $29.95.","authors":"Terrance Klein","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14407","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"66 2","pages":"192-194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143840629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RESPONSE: Reckoning with Sin and the Misuse of Power: Responding to Essays on Biocultural Evolution","authors":"Christa L. McKirland","doi":"10.1111/heyj.14401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14401","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This response essay engages with four scholars on the topic of biocultural evolution. A major question running across each of the essays regards how sin and the misuse of power might feature into these proposals.</p>","PeriodicalId":54105,"journal":{"name":"HEYTHROP JOURNAL","volume":"66 2","pages":"183-186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143840630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}