From laws to liturgy : an idealist theology of creation /

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Main Author: Epsen, Edward (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Series:Studies in systematic theology, volume 21
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Making the Theological Case for Idealism
  • 1. Creation and Christian Metaphysics
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Mind-Matter Relation in Theology
  • 1.3. How Platonism becomes Christian Idealism
  • 1.4. Immateriality of the Body: A Suspicion of Gnosticism
  • 1.5. Summary Argument and Chapter Outlines
  • 2. World as Liturgical Language
  • 2.1. Introduction: Cosmos and Eucharist
  • 2.2. Angels in a Eucharistic Cosmos
  • 2.3. Biblical Logos Cosmology
  • 2.4. Absolute Primacy of Christ
  • 2.5. Angels as Liturgical Prophets and Governors
  • 3. Early Idealist Theories of Creation
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Plotinus and the Critique of Aristotle's Categories
  • 3.3. Gregory's Phenomenalistic Immaterialism
  • 4. Dionysius on Hierarchy and Symbolic Theology
  • 4.1. Introduction: Mystical Ascent through Incongruous Images
  • 4.2. Cosmic Hierarchy
  • 4.3. Celestial Hierarchy and the Visible Creation Economy
  • 5. Berkeley and the Immaterial Language of Embodiment
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Language Model of Vision
  • 5.3. Heterogeneity of the Senses and the Confinement of the Sensibles
  • 5.4. Analogous Fields of Discourse
  • 5.5. Idealist Construction of Space
  • pt. 2 Christian Idealism: An Analytic Exposition
  • 6. Nexus of Mind and Matter in Perceptual Consciousness
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Realism, Idealism, and Perceptual Theory
  • 6.3. Ontology of Sensory Universals
  • 6.4. Perceptual Error and Objecthood
  • 6.5. Idealist View of Physical Causality
  • 7. Construction of the Physical World
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. Logical Construction of Things in Space
  • 7.3. Idealism and the Logical Structure of Physical Theory
  • 7.4. Against the Claims of Physical Realism
  • 7.5. Realism and Idealist Theology of Visible Creation
  • 8. Ultimate Reality as a Community of Minds
  • 8.1. Introduction
  • 8.2. Christian Theism and the Problem of Creative Laws
  • 8.3. Augustinian-Cartesian View of the Soul
  • 8.4. Logical Construction of Time
  • 8.5. Laws of Creation
  • pt. 3 Theological Casefor Christian Idealism Continued
  • 9. Cosmic Liturgy
  • 9.1. Introduction
  • 9.2. Celestial Scope of Natural Theology
  • 9.3. Challenge to Physical Realism from Angelic Cosmology
  • 9.4. Unity of a Eucharistic Cosmos.