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  1. Platonism and the Origins of Modernity: The Platonic Tradition and the Rise of Modern Philosophy.Douglas Hedley & Sarah Hutton (eds.) - 2008 - Springer.
    International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, Vol. 196. -/- Introduction, S. Hutton; Nicholas of Cusa : Platonism at the Dawn of Modernity, D. Moran; At Variance: Marsilio Ficino Platonism And Heresy, M.J.B. Allen; Going Naked into the Shrine:Herbert, Plotinus and the Consructive Metaphor, S.R.L.Clark; Commenius, Light Metaphysics and Educational Reform, J. Rohls ; Robert Fludd’s Kabbalistic Cosmos, W. Schmidt-Biggeman; Reconciling Theory and Fact:The Problem of ‘Other Faiths’ in Lord Herbert and the Cambridge Platonists, D. (...)
     
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    The iconic imagination.Douglas Hedley - 2016 - New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
    Why is beauty consoling? Ancient and Medieval Western philosophy was primarily concerned with beauty in relation to truth and goodness. The theistic religions assume a link between beauty, goodness and truth, all of which are viewed as Divine attributes. This is one reason for the iconoclasm that all three Abrahamic religions share to a greater or lesser degree. Yet, creative fictions of great artistic beauty aspire to a certain truthfulness. A work of the imagination may deepen or purify our emotions (...)
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  3. Ralph Cudworth as interpreter of Plotinus.Douglas Hedley - 2019 - In Stephen Gersh (ed.), Plotinus' Legacy: The Transformation of Platonism From the Renaissance to the Modern Era. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
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    Gods and giants: Cudworth’s platonic metaphysics and his ancient theology.Douglas Hedley - 2017 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 25 (5):932-953.
    The Cambridge Platonists are modern thinkers and the context of seventeenth-century Cambridge science is an inalienable and decisive part of their thought. Cudworth’s interest in ancient theology, however, seems to conflict with the progressive aspect of his philosophy. The problem of the nature, however, of this ‘Platonism’ is unavoidable. Even in his complex and recondite ancient theology Cudworth is motivated by philosophical considerations, and his legacy among philosophers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries should not be overlooked. In particular we (...)
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    Coleridge, Philosophy and Religion: Aids to Reflection and the Mirror of the Spirit.Douglas Hedley - 2000 - Cambridge University Press.
    Coleridge's relation to his German contemporaries constitutes the toughest problem in assessing his standing as a thinker. For the last half-century this relationship has been described, ultimately, as parasitic. As a result, Coleridge's contribution to religious thought has been seen primarily in terms of his poetic genius. This book revives and deepens the evaluation of Coleridge as a philosophical theologian in his own right. Coleridge had a critical and creative relation to, and kinship with, German Idealism. Moreover, the principal impulse (...)
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    Coleridge's Intellectual Intuition, the Vision of God, and the Walled Garden of "Kubla Khan".Douglas Hedley - 1998 - Journal of the History of Ideas 59 (1):115-134.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Coleridge’s Intellectual Intuition, the Vision of God, and the Walled Garden of “Kubla Khan”Douglas HedleyIn his seminal work of 1917 Das Heilige Rudolph Otto quotes a number of passages as instances of the “Numinose.” Alongside those quotations from more conventional mystics, Plotinus, and Augustine, Otto refers to Coleridge’s “savage place” in Kubla Khan. 1 It is also pertinent that, when trying to define Romanticism, C. S. Lewis appeals to (...)
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    Pantheism, Trinitarian Theism and the Idea of Unity: Reflections on the Christian Concept of God.Douglas Hedley - 1996 - Religious Studies 32 (1):61 - 77.
    Modern analytic philosophy of religion has become increasingly interested in the dogmatic substances of Christian theology. I argue that the doctrine of the Trinity provides an instance of the importance of dogmatic formulation for an appreciation of the philosophical aspect of the Christian concept of God. The starting point of my discussion is the recent defence of pantheism by Michael Levine, and his discussion of Neoplatonist and German Idealist models of deity. Both metaphysical theism and the alleged Neoplatonic metaphysical generalogy (...)
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    The Seriousness of Play.Douglas Hedley - 2023 - In Marie-Élise Zovko & John Dillon (eds.), Tourism and Culture in Philosophical Perspective. Springer Verlag. pp. 105-119.
    Regarding the question of why it is that people feel the need to travel for recreational purposes, I suggest that the answer might be found in the concept of “play.” In my paper, I consider the seriousness of play as represented in the work of Johan Huizinga, who held that play lies at the very source of culture, and the novels of Hermann Hesse, in light of Joseph Pieper’s reflections on leisure and the ludic in relation to the contemplative. In (...)
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    Round Table: “Religion vs Philosophy?”.John Brooke, Antony Flew, Douglas Hedley, Janet Radcliffe Richards & Anja Steinbauer - 2000 - Philosophy Now 26:38-41.
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    The Cambridge Companion to Christianity and the Environment.Alexander J. B. Hampton & Douglas Hedley (eds.) - 2022 - Cambridge University Press.
    Christianity has understood the environment as a gift to nurture and steward, a book of divine revelation disclosing the divine mind, a wild garden in need of cultivation and betterment, and as a resource for the creation of a new Eden. This Cambridge Companion details how Christianity, one of the world's most important religions, has shaped one of the existential issues of our age, the environment. Engaging with contemporary issues, including gender, traditional knowledge, and enchantment, it brings together the work (...)
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    Deconstructing Radical Orthodoxy: Postmodern Theology, Rhetoric, and Truth.Wayne J. Hankey & Douglas Hedley - 2005 - Routledge.
    Radical Orthodoxy is the most radical and influential theological development in a generation. Many have been bewildered by the range and intensity of the writings which constitute Radical Orthodoxy. This book spans the range of the history of thought discussed by Radical Orthodoxy, tackling the accuracy of the historical narratives on which their position depends. The distinguished contributors examine the history of thought as presented by the movement, presenting a series of critiques of individual Radical Orthodox 'readings' of key thinkers. (...)
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    Bild, Bildung and the ‘romance of the soul’: Reflections upon the image of Meister Eckhart.Douglas Hedley - 2018 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 50 (6-7):614-620.
    In this article, the Bild or image of the sculptor used by Plotinus and adapted by his Christian follower Meister Eckhart forms the basis of a reflection on the religious or otherworldly dimension in ethics and on the relationship of esthetics, morality, and religion. The image of the sculptor who chips away at his sculpture exemplifies the relationship of the individual to its divine archetype. Such knowledge involves transformation of the knower, a turning back of the image to the archetype, (...)
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    Coleridge's speculative mystricism; reflections on dr Perkins's 'logic and logos'.Douglas Hedley - 1994 - Heythrop Journal 35 (4):421–439.
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    Chapter 2. Tillich and Participation.Douglas Hedley - 2017 - In Samuel Andrew Shearn & Russell Re Manning (eds.), Returning to Tillich: Theology and Legacy in Transition. De Gruyter. pp. 31-40.
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  15. Censuring the Teutonic Philosopher? Henry More’s Ambivalent Appraisal of Jacob Böhme.Douglas Hedley - 2018 - Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism 18 (1):54-74.
    This essay examines Henry More’s engagement with Jacob Böhme and compares the sympathetic critique of Böhme with More’s much more negative evaluation of Spinoza. More directs his criticism of Böhme at the similarities between Spinoza and Böhme: their materialism and confusion of God and world. The present essay suggests, however, that the perception of shared Platonism informs More’s more favourable approach to the Silesian. The problem of what “Platonism” means in this context is thus also addressed. Böhme’s writings were valued (...)
     
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    For God's sake: why Sacrifice? Mediating Reflections on Peter Jonkers and John Milbank.Douglas Hedley - 2008 - Neue Zeitschrift für Systematicsche Theologie Und Religionsphilosophie 50 (3-4):301-317.
    SUMMARYPeter Jonkers' paper ‘Justifying Sacrifice’ presents a subtle and nuanced defence of the ethical paradigm of sacrifice as offering up ‘for the sake of’ another item or principle. He employs Hegel and Levinas for this purpose. While Jonkers presents his position as in basic agreement with the position of John Milbank in his paper ‘Midwinter Sacrifice’, I claim that the two positions are, in fact, diametrically opposed. Milbank is proposing a radical critique of the ethical paradigm of sacrifice as the (...)
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    (1 other version)Forms of Reflection, Imagination, and the Love of Wisdom.Douglas Hedley - 2012 - Metaphilosophy 43 (1-2):112-124.
    This article reflects upon the relationship between philosophy and theology. It further considers the persisting relevance of the specifically Hellenic inheritance of philosophy as contemplation and the Delphic exhortation, “Know thyself!” It concludes with reflections upon the role of imagination in relation to the philosophical idea of God as the supreme and transcendent causal principle of the physical cosmos.
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    Göttliche Freiheit: die Trinitätslehre in Schellings Spätphilosophie – By Malte Dominik Krueger.Douglas Hedley - 2011 - Modern Theology 27 (1):193-194.
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    Introduction.Douglas Hedley & David Leech - 2019 - In Douglas Hedley & David Leech (eds.), Revisioning Cambridge Platonism: Sources and Legacy. Springer Verlag. pp. 1-11.
    The Cambridge Platonists mark an important juncture in Western intellectual history. Benjamin Whichcote, Ralph Cudworth, Henry More and John Smith helped shape the modern idea of selfhood and the contemporary culture of autonomy, toleration, and rights. Not only do they represent one of the great phases of the Platonic tradition, but also this group of Cambridge thinkers arguably represent a ‘Copernican revolution’ in Western moral philosophy. Attention has also been drawn to their impact on women thinkers such as Anne Conway, (...)
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    Imagination and Natural Theology.Douglas Hedley - 2013 - In Russell Re Manning (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology. Oxford University Press UK.
    This chapter focuses on the connection between imagination and natural theology. It argues that the association of imagination and natural theology is only counter intuitive if one sees imagination primarily as the capacity to generate fiction. Since natural theology is concerned with truth, then natural theology can only be misled by the promptings of the imagination. However, if we see the imaginative encounter with reality as an unavoidable aspect of human cognition, then this apparent paradox is resolved. Since the reality (...)
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  21. Image, idol and likeness : Ralph Cudworth's "Sermon before the House of Commons" 1647.Douglas Hedley - 2018 - In Alfons Fürst, Christian Hengstermann & Ralph Cudworth (eds.), Origenes Cantabrigiensis: Ralph Cudworth, "Predigt vor dem Unterhaus" und andere Schriften. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag.
     
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  22. La perception de dieu et la vision de l'invisible chez William Alston.Douglas Hedley - 2002 - Revue de Théologie Et de Philosophie 134 (2-3):175-185.
    L’article expose et discute l’un des plus importants livres récents dans le domaine de la philosophie de la religion : Perceiving God : The Epistemology of Religious Experience de William Alston. Parmi les principaux problèmes soulevés par la thèse de Alston – une défense «analytique» de l’expérience mystique de la perception de Dieu – la question de savoir si la notion de perception doit être prise littéralement ou comme une métaphore est fondamentale. À cet égard, l’article insiste sur l’ambiguïté de (...)
     
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    Modernity and the Reinvention of Tradition: Backing into the Future – By Stephen Prickett.Douglas Hedley - 2011 - Modern Theology 27 (4):692-695.
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    The History of Western Philosophy of Religion.Douglas Hedley, Chris Ryan, Yolanda D. Estes, Theodore Vial, Paul Redding & Michael Vater - 2013 - Routledge.
    The nineteenth century was a turbulent period in the history of the philosophical scrutiny of religion - this volume is an authoritative guide for all who are interested in the debates that took place in this seminal period.
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    Participation in the divine: a philosophical history, from antiquity to the modern era.Douglas Hedley & Daniel J. Tolan (eds.) - 2024 - Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
    The concept of participation in a transcendent domain of existence is central to the Platonic and the Judaeo- Christian traditions. The essays in this volume analyse and explore this key concept in the history of Western thought, providing a rigorous and accessible account of participation from antiquity to the modern era.
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    Pantheism, trinitarian theism and the idea of unity: Reflections on the Christian concept of God: Douglas Hedley.Douglas Hedley - 1996 - Religious Studies 32 (1):61-77.
    Modern analytic philosophy of religion has become increasingly interested in the dogmatic substances of Christian theology. I argue that the doctrine of the Trinity provides an instance of the importance of dogmatic formulation for an appreciation of the philosophical aspect of the Christian concept of God. The starting point of mydiscussion is the recent defence of pantheism by Michael Levine, and his discussion of Neoplatonist and German Idealist models of deity. Both metaphysical theism and the alleged Neoplatonic metaphysical genealogy of (...)
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    Revisioning Cambridge Platonism: Sources and Legacy.Douglas Hedley & David Leech (eds.) - 2019 - Springer Verlag.
    This volume contains essays that examine the work and legacy of the Cambridge Platonists. The essays reappraise the ideas of this key group of English thinkers who served as a key link between the Renaissance and the modern era. The contributors examine the sources of the Cambridge Platonists and discuss their take-up in the eighteenth-century. Readers will learn about the intellectual formation of this philosophical group as well as the reception their ideas received. Coverage also details how their work links (...)
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    Response to My Interlocutors.Douglas Hedley - 2017 - Modern Theology 33 (3):472-478.
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  29. Sacrifice.Douglas Hedley - 2013 - In Nicholas Adams, George Pattison & Graham Ward (eds.), The Oxford handbook of theology and modern European thought. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
     
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    Sacrifice Imagined: Violence, Atonement, and the Sacred.Douglas Hedley - 2011 - Continuum.
    Sacrifice Imagined is an original exploration of the idea of sacrifice by one of the world's preeminent philosophers of religion. Despisers of religion have poured scorn upon the idea of sacrifice as an index of the irrational and wicked in religious practice. Nor does its secularised form seem much more appealing. One need only think of the appalling cult of sacrifice in numerous totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century. Yet sacrifice remains a part of our cultural and intellectual 'imaginary'. Hedley (...)
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    Sacrifice, Transcendence and 'Making Sacred'.Douglas Hedley - 2011 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 68:257-268.
    Despisers of religion throughout the centuries have poured scorn upon the idea of sacrifice, which they have targeted as an index of the irrational and wicked in religious practice. Lucretius saw the sacrifice of Iphigenia as an instance of the evils perpetrated by religion. But even religious reformers like Xenophanes or Empedocles rail against ‘bloody sacrifice’. What kind of God can demand sacrifice? Yet the language of sacrifice persists in a secular world. Nor does its secularised form seem much more (...)
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  32. The Counter-Enlightenment and Romantic Platonism.Douglas Hedley - 2020 - In Alexander J. B. Hampton & John Peter Kenney (eds.), Christian Platonism: A History. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
     
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    The First German Philosopher: The Mysticism of Jakob Böhme as Interpreted by Hegel by Cecilia Muratori.Douglas Hedley - 2018 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 56 (2):369-370.
    Cecilia Muratori’s book is a major contribution to scholarship on the Romantic Age and idealistic philosophy. Jakob Böhme is a thinker of great importance within the German tradition, but is so dense and difficult that he is very hard to study without proper and expert guidance. Muratori has exceeded expectations in her lucid, imaginative, and brilliant exposition of Böhme’s thought in relation to Hegel and, indeed, the modern age. Hegel not only regarded Böhme as a writer of philosophical genius, but (...)
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  34. The History of Evil IV: The History of Evil in the 18th and 19th Centuries.Douglas Hedley (ed.) - forthcoming - Acumen Publishing.
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    The History of Evil in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 1700–1900 CE.Douglas Hedley (ed.) - 2018 - Routledge.
    The fourth volume of The History of Evil explores the key thinkers and themes relating to the question of evil in Eighteenth and Nineteenth. The very idea of ¿evil¿ is highly contentious in modern thought and this period was one in which the concept was intensely debated and criticized. The persistence of the idea of evil is a testament to the abiding significance of theology in the period, not least in Germany. Compromising twenty-two chapters by international scholars, some of the (...)
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    “The Monstrous Centaur”? Joseph de Maistre on Reason, Passion and Violence.Douglas Hedley - 2011 - Faith and Philosophy 28 (1):71-81.
    This essay remarks upon a seeming paradox in the philosophical anthropology of Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821). He presents a traditional Platonic asymmetry of reason and the passions. This is put to the service of an Origenistic-universalistic theology that revolves around questions of guilt, punishment and redemption and a theory of sacrifice. Maistre is far from being the irrationalist that many political theorists observe, even if he presents an antagonistic relationship between reason and passions, the rational self and its desires. The (...)
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    The Meaning of Theism – Edited by John Cottingham.Douglas Hedley - 2009 - Modern Theology 25 (4):707-709.
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    Werner Beierwaltes and the Yearning for Transcendence.Douglas Hedley - 2022 - International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 16 (2):115-133.
    In this paper we explore some of the key themes in the thought of Werner Beierwaltes. He established a reputation as a scholar of Neoplatonism during a period of great renewal of Neoplatonic studies in the last century, and that esteem was justly deserved. Yet his work was motivated by the faith in Platonism as a living tradition and a resolute conviction that metaphysics is an ineluctable part of the philosophical vocation; and indeed he was irritated by jejune or simplistic (...)
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  39. (1 other version)Was Schleiermacher a christian platonist?Douglas Hedley - 1999 - Dionysius 17:149-168.
     
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    Plato's Parmenides: Text, Translation & Introductory Essay.Arnold Hermann, Douglas Hedley & Sylvana Chrysakopoulou - 2010 - Las Vegas, NV: Parmenides Publishing. Edited by Glenn W. Most.
    Plato’s "Parmenides" presents the modern reader with a puzzle. Noted for being the most difficult of Platonic dialogues, it is also one of the most influential. This new edition of the work includes the Greek text on facing pages, with an English translation by Arnold Hermann in collaboration with Sylvana Chrysakopoulou. Hermann's Introduction provides an overview and commentary aimed at scholars and first time readers alike.
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    Aesthetics, Nature and Religion: Ronald W. Hepburn and his Legacy, ed. Endre Szécsényi.Endre Szécsényi, Peter Cheyne, Cairns Craig, David E. Cooper, Emily Brady, Douglas Hedley, Mary Warnock, Guy Bennett-Hunter, Michael McGhee, James Kirwan, Isis Brook, Fran Speed, Yuriko Saito, James MacAllister, Arto Haapala, Alexander J. B. Hampton, Pauline von Bonsdorff, Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson & Arnar Árnason - 2020 - Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press.
    On 18–19 May 2018, a symposium was held in the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the death of Ronald W. Hepburn (1927–2008). The speakers at this event discussed Hepburn’s oeuvre from several perspectives. For this book, the collection of the revised versions of their talks has been supplemented by the papers of other scholars who were unable to attend the symposium itself. Thus this volume contains contributions from (...)
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    Anerkennung und Absolute Religion: Formierung der Gesellschaftstheorie und Genese der Spekulativen Religionsphilosophie in Hegel's Frühschriften. [REVIEW]Douglas Hedley - 1999 - Religious Studies 35 (2):229-240.
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    Il cielo in terra: La grazia fra teologia ed estetica. [REVIEW]Douglas Hedley - 2012 - Speculum 87 (2):604-605.
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    Metapher und Lebenswelt Hans Blumenbergs Metaphorologie als Lebenswelthermeneutik und ihr religionsphänomenologischer Horizont. [REVIEW]Douglas Hedley - 2005 - Faith and Philosophy 22 (2):254-255.
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    Panentheism. [REVIEW]Douglas Hedley - 2012 - Faith and Philosophy 29 (1):115-118.
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    The Trinity in German Thought. [REVIEW]Douglas Hedley - 2001 - Religious Studies 37 (3):359-367.
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