Timothy Knepper
Biographic Data
| ID | 4291761 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Knepper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Knepper |
| SIGNATURE | KNEPPER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Drake University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Explanations on the Incarnation of God and the Inculturation of Catholic Spiritual Practice in 17th-Century China
Through deep intertextual analysis of Tianzhu Jiangsheng Chuxiang Jingjie (Explanations on the Incarnation of God, hereafter, Jingjie), a late Ming Dynasty work by Jesuit missionary Giulio Aleni, this paper explores three levels at which the text creatively interprets Confucian and Daoist thought in the inculturation of Catholic spirituality in China, also drawing implications of Aleni’s historical inculturation for the contemporary inculturation…
To Build a Contextual Christian Ecological Ethics in China
Drawing on the encyclical Laudato Si’ issued by Pope Francis in 2015, this paper sketches a Christian ecological spirituality for Chinese cultural contexts. The paper first examines the meaning of ecological spirituality, analyzing its deep biblical roots and subsequent theological implications. It then develops a contextual Christian ecological ethics by exploring the significance of Laudato Si’ for ecological spirituality in China in conversati…
Art, Desire, and God
Bringing together thinkers from philosophy of religion, religious studies, music, art, and film, while drawing on a wealth of phenomenological resources and methods, a team of renowned scholars provide new vantages on the question of how art is an expression of the human desire for God. In three interrelated parts, chapters employ phenomenological tools to propose new ways for speaking of the desire for God. Scholars first draw upon music, sculpt…
Comparison
When you come right down to it, comparison is easy as pie. Choose two things and say how they are similar and different in some respect. Moreover, as many have argued, none more notably than J. Z. Smith in Map Is Not Territory (1978), comparison is “a fundamental characteristic of human intelligence,” without which “we could not speak, perceive, learn, or reason” (240). Without comparison, there would be no academic study of religion. Why, then, …
Ranks Are Not Bypassed, Rituals Are Not Negated
Modern readings of the Dionysian corpus often subordinate its hierarchical treatises to its theological treatises. Two unfortunate consequences follow: one, the thetic positions and aphairetic removals of the Divine Names and Mystical Theology bypass or transcend the hierarchical ranks and hierurgical rituals of the Celestial Hierarchy and Ecclesiastical Hierarchy . Second, the return to God occurs through apophatic abstraction rather than sacram…
No prominent works on this page.
Ranks Are Not Bypassed, Rituals Are Not Negated
Modern readings of the Dionysian corpus often subordinate its hierarchical treatises to its theological treatises. Two unfortunate consequences follow: one, the thetic positions and aphairetic removals of the Divine Names and Mystical Theology bypass or transcend the hierarchical ranks and hierurgical rituals of the Celestial Hierarchy and Ecclesiastical Hierarchy . Second, the return to God occurs through apophatic abstraction rather than sacram…
Comparison
When you come right down to it, comparison is easy as pie. Choose two things and say how they are similar and different in some respect. Moreover, as many have argued, none more notably than J. Z. Smith in Map Is Not Territory (1978), comparison is “a fundamental characteristic of human intelligence,” without which “we could not speak, perceive, learn, or reason” (240). Without comparison, there would be no academic study of religion. Why, then, …
Art, Desire, and God
Bringing together thinkers from philosophy of religion, religious studies, music, art, and film, while drawing on a wealth of phenomenological resources and methods, a team of renowned scholars provide new vantages on the question of how art is an expression of the human desire for God. In three interrelated parts, chapters employ phenomenological tools to propose new ways for speaking of the desire for God. Scholars first draw upon music, sculpt…
Explanations on the Incarnation of God and the Inculturation of Catholic Spiritual Practice in 17th-Century China
Through deep intertextual analysis of Tianzhu Jiangsheng Chuxiang Jingjie (Explanations on the Incarnation of God, hereafter, Jingjie), a late Ming Dynasty work by Jesuit missionary Giulio Aleni, this paper explores three levels at which the text creatively interprets Confucian and Daoist thought in the inculturation of Catholic spirituality in China, also drawing implications of Aleni’s historical inculturation for the contemporary inculturation…
To Build a Contextual Christian Ecological Ethics in China
Drawing on the encyclical Laudato Si’ issued by Pope Francis in 2015, this paper sketches a Christian ecological spirituality for Chinese cultural contexts. The paper first examines the meaning of ecological spirituality, analyzing its deep biblical roots and subsequent theological implications. It then develops a contextual Christian ecological ethics by exploring the significance of Laudato Si’ for ecological spirituality in China in conversati…
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (2 works) · Christianity (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Spirituality (2 works) · Abstraction (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Algorithm (1 work)