... the moral thinking of many pious medical practitioners and laypersons. medical ethics practical divinity astrology magic witchcraft William Perkins was the most influential English theologian of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. He wrote thirty-seven treatises, some published in his...

... the recommendation of Timothy Dwight, then president of Yale, he began preaching at New Haven's prominent First Church, to which he was called as pastor in 1812. When Yale added a divinity school, Dwight's son endowed a chair in his father's honor to which Nathaniel Taylor was invited. His placement secured Taylor's...

...Table 3.1: Subcategories within the Ethics of Autonomy, Community, and Divinity Autonomy Punishment Avoidance (to self) Reward Seeking (to self) Self’s Physical Well-Being Self’s Psychological Well-Being Self’s Interest Other Individual’s Physical Well...

... Seminary Taylor Nathaniel Unitarianism Wisner Benjamin Yale Divinity School Puritans Andover Seminary Hebrew Language Hodge Charles Stuart Moses Syriac Channing William Ellery Edwards Jonathan Mather Cotton Owen John Tappan David Ware Henry Webber Samuel Arminianism Congregationalism...

... (“Damnation”), and Judith—who found themselves on opposite sides of the Revolutionary-era debate over the justness of eternal hell. Despite the optimism of early republican political leaders, hell survived the challenges of Universalism because its defenders, including the New Divinity heirs of Edwards...

...In the Protestant tradition, the teaching office of the church is an indispensable function of the ordained ministry, even in the most charismatic traditions. Implicit in the structure and curriculum of almost any Protestant divinity school is a doctrine of the minister as teacher. This chapter...

... Bridges John Paul’s Cross sermons Whitaker William Calvinism Luther Martin Ryrie Alec Winship Michael Greenham Richard practical divinity Wilcocks Thomas adiaphora anti episcopalianism anti puritanism separatists Laudians Laudianism ‘Atheos’ character Gifford George ‘good neighbourhood...

... and metaphysical necessity. It seems that the account of causation he appeals to, an act of the Father's essence, must be non-temporalist, since otherwise there was a time when the Son was not, so imperilling his full divinity. Some paradoxical features of the account are discussed. An eternalist account...

...,” the difference between “now” and “yesterday,” as well as “now” and “tomorrow”—and thus time itself—loses its meaning. Perhaps, the chapter speculates, in this way the human is connected to the divine. Maybe in this love, something more comes to the fore: a deep dimension of life as it is. Bible eternity...

..., but a necessity in the relation between knowledge and the frontiers of ignorance that encircle it. The book closes by invoking the possibility of a new concept of an immanent divinity as the sense of finality. Action Activity Aggregate Domains Entropy Equilibrium Finalist activity Gestalt God Harmony...

... not be justified with reference to these precedents. The Sentences set the research agenda for later Christian philosophers who wished to avoid being condemned as heretics. The work returns to the central ideas of Augustine and Boethius regarding divine simplicity and the divine attributes...

...Albert the Great commented on the Sentences and also on the Categories. His account of the Trinity follows Bonaventure in holding that there are relations in the divine, that although they are substantially the divine essence they are relatively distinct from one...

...Fundamental to Thomas Aquinas's account of the Trinity is a specific notion of divine simplicity according to which the simple is not material to any form, nor is it subject of any accident. From this basis it follows that divinity and the divine attributes are identical with God, and the Personal...

... the divinity in nature to him. Thoreau accepted this as a mystery. Trees knew things he would never know. “Their secret is where you are not and where your feet can never carry you.” They also symbolized an immortality to Thoreau. A tall white pine in Maine was “as immortal as I am, and perchance will go...

...This chapter discusses the rich religious history of Yale, and its contributions to the establishment and growth of the nation. Since Yale's beginning, graduates of Yale College, many of whom were motivated by their religious convictions, and later in Yale's history alumni of the Divinity School...

...This chapter explains that silver was used at the altar because of its divine connotations, and its use in the sacraments of baptism and Holy Communion further instructed people that silver was the right material to use in rituals. If Anglican infant baptism thus served the emotional needs...

...This essay describes the ways that our thinking about morality changed in response to Richard Shweder’s writings about morality, and in particular his description of the “ethics of divinity.” It first describes Shweder’s theory of the “three ethics” of moral discourse and explain why the theory...

... disasters. Hinduism (as well as other world religions in their own way) offers a unique set of moral values and rules to guide human beings in their relationship with the environment. This essay examines the Hindu concept of divinity being present in creation and as such exhortations for Hindus to treat...

...This article suggests that Wesley's notion of ‘divinity’ as a ‘grammar of the Spirit’ – that which explicates how the elements of the ‘language of the Holy Ghost’ relate to one another and gain their meaning in concert together – represents not just the approach he used in commenting upon Scripture...

... sources. It shows that Christ's divinity is not only a matter of faith but also a fundamentally important precondition for both ordinary and exceptional experience of his presence. The chapter concludes by discussing the basic argument and its theological implications. Anselm of Canterbury Bernard...