Christian Hengstermann

Biographic Data

ID6401204
NAMEChristian Hengstermann
GIVEN NAMESChristian
FAMILY NAMEHengstermann
SIGNATUREHENGSTERMANN C
AFFILIATIONSSchmeddingstraße 7 Haltern am See 45721 Germany
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Participation in the Divine

    Open AccessJessica Dillon, Margaret Barker et al.BOOKParticipation in the Divine2024

    The concept of participation in a transcendent domain of existence is central to the Platonic and the Judaeo-Christian traditions. It is how thinkers throughout history have justified existence itself, explaining temporal being vis-à-vis God. Yet in the wake of secularisation and the widespread phenomenon of disenchantment, this once ubiquitous and coveted notion has fallen into desuetude. The essays in this volume analyse and explore this key co…

  • Divine Fate Moral and the Best of All Possible Worlds

    Open AccessChristian HengstermannARTICLEModern Theology2022

    In his account of his Düsseldorf conversations with G.E. Lessing shortly before the latter’s death in 1781, F.H. Jacobi records the Enlightenment poet and philosopher’s allusion to the Kabbalistic philosophy of Henry More, whom he cited in support of his shocking Spinozist creed of the hen kai pan . Origen’s first Christian philosophy hinges upon a conviction of universal divine goodness which cannot but share its riches with beings capable of pa…

  • Kritik der religiösen Vorstellungskraft - Douglas Hedleys Trilogie zur »Imagination« als neues Paradigma der Religionsphilosophie

    Christian HengstermannARTICLETheologische Rundschau2017

    Douglas Hedley, Living Forms of the Imagination. T&T Clark, London 2008; Sacrifice Imagined. Violence, Atonement, and the Sacred. Continuum International Publishing Groop, London/New York 2011; The Iconic Imagination. Bloomsbury, New York u.a. 2016.

  • The Messiah Promised in the Holy Scripture Came a Long Time Ago

    Marilyn A Lewis, Davide A Secci et al.BOOKGeorge Rust, University of…2017

    This chapter presents an English translation of George Rust’s two poems, contained in his Latin academic text entitled Act Verses: Scripture teaches the resurrection from the dead, and reason does not contradict this and The soul, separated from the body, does not sleep . In the first poem, Rust says ‘Whoever is guided by God and reason, the mind’s two eyes, sails safely like the one whose course follows the light of the twin stars, Castor and Po…

  • George Rust, University of Cambridge Commencement Day Divinity Act Verses

    Marilyn A Lewis, Davide A Secci et al.BOOKGeorge Rust, University of…2017

    This chapter presents an English translation of George Rust’s Latin academic text entitled The Messiah Promised in the Holy Scripture Came a Long Time Ago . Here Rust talks about how he considered demonstrating that ‘Jesus himself was the promised Messiah, since it is an accepted fact among liberal and judicious men that the stubborn incredulity of the Jews and their sworn hatred towards God’s Christ cannot be justified by any means’. Rust explai…

  • Origenian Platonisme’ in Interregnum Cambridge

    Mordechai Feingold, Marilyn A Lewis et al.BOOKHistory of Universities2017

    This chapter aims to contribute to our knowledge of what is known as ‘Origenian Platonist moment’ by analysing English translations of three Latin academic texts by George Rust, with annotations to the two longer ones, written in 1656 and 1658 while he was a fellow of Christ’s College at the University of Cambridge: Messias in S. Scriptura promissus olim venit (The Messiah promised in the Holy Scripture came a long time ago); Act Verses, a souven…