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Proceedings of the Second Symposium of the Dionysius Circle: Platonic Participation without Platonic Forms: Thomas Aquin...

Published in European Journal for the Study of Thomas Aquinas

According to Aquinas, the Platonic doctrine of participation can be disentangled from a commitment to the theory of Forms which Aristotle attributes to Plato. In this article, I argue that we can learn three important things from close examination of this key insight. First, we can better understand Aquinas’s view of how the participation of an eff...

The Lord’s Supper as a Spiritually Formative Experience of Scripture

The Lord’s Supper in its New Testament context is an experience of Scripture, a reenactment of crucial divine acts in salvation history with Jesus’ death and resurrection as the nexus. As such, it grounds communicants in the biblical metanarrative and directs them to generosity, forgiveness, and patient, hopeful witness.

Negotiating artefacts: student game creation for education and introspection

Published in Frontiers in Computer Science

Learning through gameplay is being increasingly adopted by educators, who integrate games into academic curricula to address complex subjects. “Existential” game design is recognised as a practice for personal growth, self-reflection, and therapy, though it has been underexplored in educational contexts. The research thus describes the creation and...

The Māori and Ancient near Eastern Pantheons in the Context of Genesis 1 in te reo Māori

The recent test translation of Te Paipera Tapu (the Bible in the Māori language) has aroused considerable debate for its use in Genesis 1 of the names of atua Māori (Māori divine beings). These names of atua have been used instead of names of features of the natural world, which stands in contrast to the use of other kupu Māori (Māori words) in the...

Hermeneutical Systematic Dimensions of the Debate on God as Timeless and/or Temporal

While the debate on God’s eternity as timeless and/or temporal is a fascinating topic in itself, especially in philosophical theology, the discussion of time and temporality has a hermeneutical systematic potential for the articulation of Christian theology. In this article, I explore the hermeneutical systematic dimensions of time and timelessness...

Linguagem e sertão em João Guimarães Rosa

The paper makes an interpretation of João Guimarães Rosa's work, Grande sertão: veredas, in order to show the metaphysical purpose of his language, considering both the mystery of its creation, and the purpose of providing its reader with an experience of this mystery, which awaken you to discover yourself with the repetition of the creation proces...

A Contemporary Aristotelian–Thomistic Perspective on the Evolutionary View of Reality and Theistic Evolution

This article presents a coherent and comprehensive proposal of a renewed contemporary Aristotelian–Thomistic approach to the evolutionary view of reality and the position of theistic evolution. Beginning with a proposal of a hylomorphically–grounded essentialist definition of species—framed within a broader revival of biological essentialism—a cons...