Metatron and the Problem of Divine Agency
This article examines Metatron and the problem of divine agency through enthronement, mediation, and monotheism in 3 Enoch and early Jewish mysticism.
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6 recordsCan Revival Be Declared? Divine Agency, Discernment, and the Authority to Name Spiritual Awakening
When Christians call a gathering or movement a revival, they do more than report heightened religious activity. They attribute unusual agency to God, claim that this agency can be known, participate in shaping the movement through the act of naming it, and distribute…
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When Death Lost Its Throne: How Monotheism Transformed Death from a Divine Power into a Subordinate Messenger
This article examines the transformation of personified Death from the Late Bronze Age religious world of Ugarit to later Jewish, Islamic, European, and Mexican traditions. It does not argue for a direct genealogical line from the Ugaritic deity Mot to the later Angel…
Systematic & Philosophical TheologyView record
Forgotten Texts: The Theology of Zipporah’s Rite: Divine Threat, Circumcision, Covenant, and Female Agency in Exodus 4:24–26
Why did God suddenly seek to kill Moses immediately after commissioning him at the burning bush? Why did Zipporah's swift action avert divine judgment? Exodus 4:24–26 remains one of the most enigmatic and least-preached passages in the Hebrew Bible. This study offers a…
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Two Wills, One Acting Subject: Dyothelitism, Personal Agency, and the Psychological Coherence of the Incarnate Christ
This article examines the central conceptual difficulty of dyothelite Christology: how Jesus Christ can possess two complete natural wills, divine and human, without becoming two agents or a psychologically divided person. Building on the definition of the Third Council of Constantinople, the anthropology…
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The Ontology of Heavenly Free Will: If We Are Free in Heaven, Why Can’t We Sin?
This paper examines a persistent problem in Christian philosophical theology: if redeemed human beings remain genuinely free in the final state yet no longer sin, why did God not create humanity in that perfected condition from the beginning? The study challenges the assumption…
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