John J. Bombaro
Scholar and minister in colonial New England, driving force of the First Great Awakening, and finally president of Princeton University, Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was one of early America's most important intellectuals. In this second of four articles, Rev. John J. Bombaro takes us beyond the sermons and into a deep metaphysical pan
entheism and shows us how, in Edwards's theology, it is in God that we live and move and have our being.
Filed: Articles / Essays, Featured Essays, Theology · Tags: American Christianity, great awakening, Jonathan Edwards, metaphysics, panentheism, pantheism, philosophical theology, Reformation, reformed theology, theology
Politics & Poetics, a new peer-reviewed journal of the humanities with a focus on philosophy, invites high quality submissions on the topic of Tragic Poetry for its inaugural edition.
Bishoy Dawood
Many of us tend to look at prayer life as a mental thing: we praise, we thank, we confess to, and we confide in God – with words. And yet, while we think or pronounce our prayers, our bodies, too, are at work expressing and shaping our souls. In the Coptic tradition, liturgical postures and gestures involve the whole person, proclaiming and realizing the union of body and soul. It is in just this unity that God creates and saves the human person.
Filed: Featured Essays, Theology, Uncategorized · Tags: Agpeya, asceticism, Body, body-soul unity, Coptic Christianity, corporeal prayer, dualism, Egypt, Freud, liturgy, Matta El-Meskeen, Matthew the Poor, mental prayer, monasticism, prostration, soul, tropology, typology
