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Koers - Bulletin for Christian Scholarship

ISSN 0023-270X

2 papers in the library · publishing 2011-2021

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Richard Rohr, Mysticism and Neoplatonism

Koers - Bulletin for Christian Scholarship May 28, 2021 Mark Roques

This paper explores key the mes and doctrines in the writings of popular Franciscan priest Richard Rohr. It examines and evaluates Rohr’s incarnational worldview. It argues that Rohr’s mysticism must be understood in the light of pagan Neoplatonism. Rohr follows Plotinus, the founder of Neoplatonism by asserting that God lives in the deepest part of every human being whereas the New Testament...

Understanding beyond language: perceiving meaning in reality

Koers - Bulletin for Christian Scholarship September 10, 2011 Callum David Scott

This article is an attempt to develop a counter-argument to the contention that meaning is bound by language. Locating itself within the realist ontology of language developed by Saint Anselm of Canterbury, it will be argued that language comprises representations of entities perceived both extra to the perceiver and through introspection. Thus, a language game cannot be a closed system in the...