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Faculty of Divinity

 

NOESIS REVIEW

 

Volume VIII

(2021)

The Editors   Editors’ Note

 

SUBCONTINENTAL SPHERES

 

Bhadrajee Hewage   Remodeled and Transformed: The Persistence of Brāhmanical Householder Ethics Given the Emergence of the Buddhist Tradition

Hina Khalid   ‘Enlightened Love and Loving Enlightenment: the Gītā’s integrative vision of spiritual perfection’

Ankur Barua   For the Love of a Baby

 

POETIC PAUSE

 

Dominic White   Jean-Luc Marion’s Pipe (a Phenomenology)

Thomas Graff   Ostensorium 27.03.20

 

EMBODIED ENTANGLEMENTS

 

Jessica Sequeira   Beached Whale

Joseph Powell   Ketch Vampire ­– The Vampire Trope in Rastafari Inspired Music

Shanti Daffern   Cross, Tree, Lamb, Skull

Elizabeth Campbell   Witchcraft in the Age of the Anthropocene

 

READING REDEMPTION

 

Erik Eklund   The Passion of Meaning: Banville’s Gods and Nabokov’s ‘Signs and Symbols’

Thomas Graff   A One-way Mirror: Balthasar on Augustine’s Infernalism

Ryan Haecker   The Stars an Altar: Angelic Worlds in Origen of Alexandria

           

Volume VII

(2020)

 

The Editors   Editors’ Note

Daniel Soars   The Importance of Leisure

Alexander Chantziantoniou   Paul the Polytheist? Critical Reflections on the Concept of ‘Montheism’

Lakshmi Piette   Forests are like Cathedrals – but Better

Catherine Pickstock   Pedicel

Catherine Pickstock   The Spider and the Bee: Confinement and Metaphysics

Hannah Grady   St. Anselm’s Glimpse

Kirsty Borthwick   Herbert’s Prayer (I) and Augustine’s Christology

Ryan Haecker   The Urpflanze of Life: A Mystigogic Reading of Goethe’s ‘Metamorphosis of Plants’

Tareq Moqbel   On the Limits of Our Knowledge and Its Implications

Anna Xie   Seeing the Aspects of Awakening

Christian McDermott   The Theological Underpinnings of the Cinema of Studio Ghibli

Jonathan Lyonhart   Wittgenstein on Divine Hiddenness

 

Volume VI

(2019)

 

The Editors   Leading by the Hand

 

STORY

 

Eleanore Stump   Narrative Recognition

tan ning-sang   Disability, God, and Me

 

MUSIC

 

Dominic White   The Evensong Effect

 

PRESENCES

 

Catherine Pickstock   Introduction

Ryan Haecker   What Do Angels Sing?

Simone Kotva   Music and Attention

 

MATERIAL

 

Silvianne Aspray   On the Importance of the Sensible World in Nicholas of Cusa’s Mystagogy

Niamh Colbrook with Jeffrey Bishop   Care, Liturgy, and the Technological Imaginary

 

SOCIETY

 

Willia Ryle-Hodges   A Case Study in the Modern Transmutation of the ‘Question’ into a ‘Problem’

 

TRANSFORMING THEOLOGY

 

Dylan Parry Jones      Theologising in Welsglish

 

THREE QUESTIONS TO THE ANTHROPOCENE

 

Kit Rigden   The Meaning of Myth

Gwendolen Dupré   Utopi-yin and Utopi-yang

Zachary Taylor   Attending to Our Vocations

Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal and Simone Kotva   Postcript

 

PRAYER

 

Hina Khalid   Ibn ‘Arabī and the Creative Function of Prayer

Hugh Burling   Practically an Ontological Argument for Religious Engagement

 

METAPHYSICS

 

Alexander Abecina   Doctrinal Development or Not?

Alexander D. Garton   Stare and Fluere

Tilak Parekh   The Ontological Status of the Natural Domain (Prakti) in Sākhya-Yoga

 

Volume V

(2018)

 

Ruby Guyatt & Jonathan Platter   Editors’ Introduction

 

PLACE

 

Daniel H. Weiss, James Carleton Paget, Jessica Scott, Emily Coulter, & Vittorio Montemaggi   Blessed is this Place: Remembering Don Stebbings

Nadya Pohran   Being There: A Story from the Field

 

FREQUENCY

 

Samuel Haecker   The One that Is Not: The Logic of Silence in Plato’s Parmenides

Ruby Guyatt   Review of Lexi Eikelboom, Rhythm: A Theological Category

 

ENCOUNTER

 

Alexandra S. Ilieva   Scruton, Rorty, and the Mādhyamika Buddhist: A Discussion on Intercultural Landscapes

Jonathan Lyonhart   3 Corinthians

William Ryle-Hodges   The Word and Social Power: Muḥammed ‘Abduh on Why there can be no Modernity without Sharī’a

 

TRINITY

 

Alexander Abecina   Trinitarian Spirit-Christology in Gregory of Nyssa: A Resourcement of Homilies on the Song of Songs

Austin Stevenson   Trinitarian Spirit-Christology in Thomas Aquinas: Biblical Hermeneutics and the Munus Triplex

 

Volume IV

(2017)

 

Lexi Eikelboom   Remarks on ‘Ascension’

E.S. Kempson & Samuel Fornecker   Editorial

 

POETICS IN ACTION

 

Ankur Barua   The Love of Christ in the Cave of the Heart

E.S. Kempson   Augustinian Truth for a Post-Truth World

Ranana Dine   The Book of Lamentations

Valentin Gerlier   Seeing with a Parted Eye

 

WISDOM LITERATURE

 

Will Ryle-Hodges   Ibn al-Arabi’s Theophanic Ethics

Barnabas Aspray   The Journey Toward Reality

Alex Garton   Election and Pre-existence

Adrian Deese   Divination and the Creation

 

CONCERNING BUILDINGS

 

Sebiastian Selvén   Architectural Labours

Ayla Lepine   ‘Heaven and Earth in Little Space’

Bruno Clifton OP   Converging Transcendental and Terrestrial Reality

 

ECCE HOMO

 

Rozelle Bosch   The Politics of Belonging

J. Preston Winstead   ‘There Was a Famine in the Land’

Samuel Fornecker   The Cultivation of Creatureliness

Ruby Guyatt   The Gift of Recognition

 

Volume III

(2016)

 

Christian Coppa, Pui Him Ip & Barnabas Aspray   Editorial

 

ESSAYS

 

Simone Kotva   On the Sacred in Translation

Barnabas Aspray   How Can the Subject be Summoned?

Silvianne Bürki   ‘There Can Be No Truth Without a Conversion’

Ruth Jackson   The Good News According to Johannes de silentio

Elijah Teitelbaum   The Excessive Object

Sebastian Selvén   The Body of Law

Tommaso Manzon   Inclusivism or Pluralism?

Simon Ravenscroft   Levity and Theology

 

HOW TO THINK ABOUT BEING

 

Stefan Baumann   A Phenomenological Approach to the Question of Being

Hugh Burling   Three Problems of Onto-Theology

 

POETRY

 

Jack Belloli   From Phylum

E S Kempson   Truth

Laura Kilbride   Lines on an Exhibition

Nathan Lyon   On Preferring Qohelet

 

Volume II

(2015)

 

Hugh Burling & Silvianne Bürki   Editorial

 

IN MEMORY OF JOHN HUGHES

 

John Hughes   Eternal Life Now!

Robert Mackley   Communio bonorum

Ruth Jackson   Of Life and Work

Isidoros Katsos   Backstage

Ragnar M Bergem   The Cursed Rhythm of Work

Simone Kotva   Departure by Rainfall

John Milbank & Catherine Pickstock   The Work of Forgiveness

 

ESSAYS

 

Oliver Soskice   Still Life and Being

Simon Ravenscroft   Producing Happiness

Pui Him Ip   Putting on Humanity

Nathan Lyons   God and the Box of Being

Julian Perlmutter   Drawing from the Well of Silence

 

POETRY

 

Tim Atkins   A Lonely Grave

Hugh Burling   Station 11: Christ is Nailed to the Cross

 

REVIEW

 

Christian Coppa   The Art of Ageing

 

TRANSLATION

 

Evan King & Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal   Johannes Tauler on the Imago Dei and the Essential Conversions

 

Volume I

(2014)

 

Ruth Jackson & Simone Kotva   Editorial

 

ESSAYS

 

Oliver Soskice   Close Viewing

Silvianne Bürki   Abundance and Simplicity

Julian Perlmutter   Religious Yearning as Religious Knowledge

Laura Kilbride   The Beast in the Space

Simone Kotva   Poetics of Verticality

Rowan Williams   Word and Gesture

Barnabas Aspray   Beyond Authorial Intention

John Milbank   Growing Backwards

Sam Hole   Silence, Peace and Prayer

Hugh Burling   Errol’s Transworld Heroism

Ben Quash   The Practically Mysterious Doctrine of the Trinity

 

POETRY

 

W. Travis Helms   From Sistine Blank Sonnets

Arabella Milbank   Demeter’s Harrowing

 

REVIEWS

 

Ruth Jackson   Imaging in media res

Hugh Burling   Exploding Angels

 

CONVERSATIONS

 

Raphael Cadenhead   Concentric Circles

Andrew Davison & John Hughes   The Darkness and the Light