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Early Christian Studies
Converse with
Ignatius of Antioch Simulacrum
Patristics · Martyrdom · Church Unity · Epistles
1st–2nd century
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Irenaeus of Lyons Simulacrum
Patristics · Against Heresies · Recapitulation · Goodness of Creation
2nd–3rd century
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Clement of Alexandria Simulacrum
Alexandrian Theology · Philosophy as Preparation · The True Gnostic
2nd–3rd century
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Tertullian Simulacrum
Latin Theology · Trinitas · Apologetics · Athens vs Jerusalem
2nd–3rd century
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Origen of Alexandria Simulacrum
Biblical Exegesis · Three Senses of Scripture · Apokatastasis
2nd–3rd century
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Lactantius Simulacrum
Apologetics · Divine Institutes · Rhetoric · Providence
3rd–4th century
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Athanasius of Alexandria Simulacrum
Nicene Orthodoxy · Theosis · Contra Mundum
3rd–4th century
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Gregory of Nazianzus Simulacrum
The Theologian · Five Orations · Poetry · The Contemplative Life
4th century
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Basil of Caesarea Simulacrum
Cappadocian Theology · Monastic Rule · Practical Charity
4th century
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Gregory of Nyssa Simulacrum
Epektasis · Apophatic Theology · Infinite Progress toward God
4th century
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Ambrose of Milan Simulacrum
Church vs Empire · Pastoral Leadership · Latin Liturgy
4th century
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Jerome Simulacrum
The Vulgate · Biblical Scholarship · Hebraica Veritas
4th–5th century
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John Chrysostom Simulacrum
Preaching · Poverty & Wealth · The Golden-Mouthed
4th–5th century
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Augustine of Hippo Simulacrum
Theology · Confession · Grace · The Restless Heart
4th–5th century
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Pseudo-Dionysius Simulacrum
Apophatic Mysticism · Celestial Hierarchy · The Divine Darkness
c. 5th–6th century
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Gregory the Great Simulacrum
Pastoral Rule · Servant of Servants · Mission to England
6th–7th century
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John of Damascus Simulacrum
Systematic Theology · Icon Defence · The Last Father
7th–8th century
Jewish Studies
Buddhist Studies
Hindu Studies — Deity Wing
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Śiva (Naṭarāja) Simulacrum
The cosmic dancer — creation and destruction in one gesture
Eternal
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Śiva (Mahāyogin) Simulacrum
The great ascetic on Kailāsa — tapas as concentrated power
Eternal
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Śiva (Bhairava) Simulacrum
The terrible — transgression as the path through, not around
Eternal
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Kālī (Mahākālī) Simulacrum
The Kālī of the Devī Māhātmya — terror as structural necessity
Eternal
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Kālī (Dakṣiṇā) Simulacrum
Ramakrishna's Kālī — the dark mother who is also the intimate mother
Eternal
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Sarasvatī (Vāk) Simulacrum
The cosmic Vāk of Ṛgveda 10.125 — speech before it becomes words
Eternal
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Sarasvatī (Purāṇic) Simulacrum
The white-robed patroness — vīṇā, swan, book
Eternal
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Gaṇeśa Simulacrum
Remover and creator of obstacles — the threshold intelligence
Eternal
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Viṣṇu Simulacrum
The preserver — became fish, tortoise, boar, man-lion, dwarf
Eternal
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Krishna (Mahābhārata) Simulacrum
Vāsudeva · The Sūtradhāra · Keshava · Kingmaker and Charioteer · The War Entire
Eternal
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Krishna (Rādhā) Simulacrum
Rādhā · Divine Love · The Dark One · The Absent Beloved · Viraha
Eternal
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Krishna (Bhagavad Gītā) Simulacrum
The Charioteer · The Gītā · Dharma on the Battlefield · The Universal Form
Eternal
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Krishna (Vrindavan) Simulacrum
Divine Love · The Flute · Rādhā · The Beloved
Eternal
Hindu Studies — Philosophical Wing
Islamic Studies
Christianity and Politics
The Reformation
Converse with
The Complutensian Polyglot Simulacrum
An object, not a person · Alcalá de Henares, printed 1514–1517 · The layout as an argument · The first Greek New Testament in type
Printed 1514–1517, published 1522
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Erasmus of Rotterdam Simulacrum
The Greek New Testament of 1516 · Collation and the Annotations · Reform without rupture · The refusal to assert
c. 1466–1536
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Martin Luther Simulacrum
Reducing a practice to the propositions it assumes · The theology of the cross · Translating by ear · The catechism · What assertion costs
1483–1546
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William Tyndale Simulacrum
Translating from Greek and Hebrew · Passover, scapegoat, atonement · Elder, repent, congregation · Obedience and its limit
c. 1494–1536
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Thomas Cranmer Simulacrum
The Book of Common Prayer · Compressing a Latin collect into English · Writing for the ear · Obedience to the prince, and its limit
1489–1556
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Benito Arias Montano Simulacrum
The Antwerp Polyglot, 1569–72 · The interlinear — Latin above the word · Moving the Vulgate out of the centre · Scholarship inside an imperial monument
1527–1598
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Richard Hooker Simulacrum
Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · The kinds of law and their proper objects · Things indifferent · Attacking the premise rather than the conclusion
c. 1554–1600
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John Calvin Simulacrum
Brevitas et facilitas · Moving the doctrine out of the commentary · The Institutes as an order for learners · Geneva, the ordinances, and Servetus
1509–1564
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John Foxe Simulacrum
Actes and Monuments · Taking the deposition · Correlating with the persecutor’s own register · A documentary method inside a polemical frame
1516/17–1587
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Ignatius of Loyola Simulacrum
The Spiritual Exercises as an operator’s manual · The Rules for Discernment of Spirits · The Election · Composition of place
c. 1491–1556
The Latin Middle Ages
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Boethius Simulacrum
The Opuscula sacra · Logic applied to doctrine · Divide the word before you defend the position · Carrying the Greek across before it is lost
c. 477–524
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Anselm of Canterbury Simulacrum
Fides quaerens intellectum · Arguing with the authorities suspended · The single argument · Binding the objection into the book
1033/34–1109
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Peter Abelard Simulacrum
Sic et Non · Setting the authorities against one another · Dialectic applied to doctrine · Intention and the moral act
12th century
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Bernard of Clairvaux Simulacrum
Sermons on the Song of Songs · Knowledge by experience against the schools · The four degrees of love · De Consideratione · Sens, and the Second Crusade
c. 1090–1153
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Hildegard of Bingen Simulacrum
Scivias and the visionary books · The reflection of the living light · Viriditas · Logging the conditions of a claim nobody can check
1098–1179
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Bonaventure Simulacrum
Itinerarium mentis in Deum · Reductio — leading a craft back to its source · Vestige, image and likeness · The ladder built by reason and laid down at the top
c. 1217–1274
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Thomas Aquinas Simulacrum
Scholastic theology · The disputed question · Natural law · Grace perfects nature · The Summa as an order of teaching
13th century
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John Duns Scotus Simulacrum
The formal distinction — a three-valued calculus · Univocity of being · Haecceitas as a residue · The primacy of the will
c. 1265/66–1308
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William of Ockham Simulacrum
Parsimony · Nominalism and the status of universals · The absolute power of God · Poverty, and the quarrel with the papacy
14th century
Post-Reformation