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Deus Absconditus: Revelation of the Hidden and Incomprehensible God As Seen In the Theologies of Martin Luther and Karl Barth
Full text linkThe term Deus absconditus comes from the Latin Vulgate translation of Isaiah 45:15. “Truly, you are a God who hides himself [ESV],” wrote the prophet. The history of understanding God’s hiddenness traces back to antiquity and is a theme frequented in the Bible. The scriptures repeatedly indicate that God’s presence is not entirely comprehensible. The early church explored the inaccessible attributes of God, and many church fathers wrote of the properties of God out of their meditations on His incomprehensibility. However, by the time of the medieval church, powerful Aristotelian logic had become the core tool of church theology, which could not satisfy the individual struggles of a certain Augustinian monk.
Martin Luther struggled to understand his own justification before God. None of his efforts revealed God’s grace to him; God remained hidden. His studies opened up key concepts of how God reveals Himself to humanity. This led him to introduce the Theologian of the Cross in his 1518 Heidelberg Disputation. The theologian compares all things to the cross, where God reveals Himself most clearly yet is hidden under creation and suffering. The cross is the primary tool of theology. The believer is continually challenged with this temptation to trust God or trust the world. Faith is required. For Luther, this exercise is actually critical for the arousal faith.
Karl Barth recognized similar theological failures in his post-enlightened, modern time. He witnessed his mentors reasoning their way to support an unnecessary war. This drove him to challenge their methodology of relying on natural theology. He presented a new starting point to think of how one comes to the knowledge of God. Humanity cannot know an incomprehensible God without God revealing Himself and God equipping humanity to recognize His revelation. God is hidden due to the wholly otherness of His being, and humanity receives God’s revelation through secondary objects. This viewpoint originated from the awareness that God is reality. God must loan the individual faith as a personal tool to apprehend and participate in the knowledge of God. Barth agreed with Luther; this metaphysical shift in understanding God and reality causes a crisis that arouses faith. But Barth added freedom to the human participation that is very applicable to each individual’s experience. At the center of all this deliberation regarding the hidden presence of God is practical relationship with our wholly other creator
Planning for a Career for Working with High-Risk Infants: Using the Doctoral Capstone Experience to Chart Your Career Path
No full textEducational Innovations: The Doctoral Capstone Experience and Establishing Clinical Expertise in Specialized Settings – a NICU Example
No full textFiguring Out Fairness: Justice Considerations in Superhero Comics
No full textScholarship on superhero comics and other superhero media consistently highlights the important role of justice considerations in the acts and motivations of superheroes. However, these analyses are usually not informed by developmental psychology, specifically as it is practiced within the constructivist tradition. To address this gap, the present paper argues for the potential of a constructivist approach to sociomoral development, Social Cognitive Domain Theory (SCDT), to illuminate some of the genre’s appeal through analyzing its portrayal of justice considerations. The paper argues that a SCDT informed analysis of superhero comics’ portrayal of retributive, procedural, and distributive justice provides opportunities to explore intersections between features of superhero comics as a medium and features of psychological processes suggested to be involved in navigating complex social situations. The essay highlights events from three superhero comics: Seventh Circle (2016, Daredevil; retributive), Trial of Jean Grey (2014, Jean Grey; procedural), and Peace on Earth (1999, Superman; distributive)
Frequency of Power Wheelchair Part Replacements: A Longitudinal Retrospective Study of Medicare Beneficiaries
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Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History, and Meaning
No full textThe widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture, from prehistory to the present, in ways that are both accessible and engaging.
Significant features of the fourth edition include: Expanded global essays outlining the encounters and interchanges, conflicts and accommodations, between disparate global communities A brand-new final chapter addressing the twenty-first century during which Western and global architectural developments have increasingly become one broad, interwoven expression. This chapter includes sections on CAD, Contemporary Architecture of the Twenty-First Century, Starchitects, Contemporary Architectural Prizes, Architecture and Energy Consumption, and Architecture Integrated with Nature New sections on Frank Lloyd Wright and Late Twentieth-Century Expressionism Thoroughly revised and expanded illustration, including over 700 images, over half of which are in full color, and 120 original line art drawings
Understanding Architecture continues to be the only text in the field to examine architecture as a cultural phenomenon as well as an artistic and technological achievement with its straightforward, two-part structure: The Elements of Architecture and the History and Meaning of Architecture. Comprehensive and clearly written, Understanding Architecture is both a primer for visual environmental literacy and a classic survey of architecture. This is an essential book for anyone interested in our built environment and the layered historical meaning embodied within it.https://digitalcommons.whitworth.edu/faculty_books/1168/thumbnail.jp
Supporting Neurological Readiness for Learning: A Classroom-Based Reflex Integration Approach for Title I Elementary Schools
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Whitworth Today Spring 2025
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