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Professor Karen Kilby's Outputs (13)

Divine contradiction: fascinating but unpersuasive (2024)
Journal Article
Kilby, K. (online). Divine contradiction: fascinating but unpersuasive. Religious Studies, https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412524000271

This article, offered from the point of view of a non-analytic, systematic theologian, admires the freshness, clarity, and simplicity of the proposal at the heart of Beall's Divine Contradiction, while raising three objections. The first is to the st... Read More about Divine contradiction: fascinating but unpersuasive.

Paradox and Paul: Catholic and Protestant Theologies of Grace (2020)
Journal Article
Kilby, K. (2020). Paradox and Paul: Catholic and Protestant Theologies of Grace. International Journal of Systematic Theology, 22(1), 77-82. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12393

John Barclay offers a capacious and helpful framework for reflection on large swathes of the history of the theology of grace with his notion of the six ways of ‘perfecting the gift’. In this article, I extend his analysis to a consideration of certa... Read More about Paradox and Paul: Catholic and Protestant Theologies of Grace.

Negative Theology and Meaningless Suffering (2019)
Journal Article
Kilby, K. (2020). Negative Theology and Meaningless Suffering. Modern Theology, 36(1), 92-104. https://doi.org/10.1111/moth.12577

This article attempts an exploration of the limits of our capacity to weave suffering into patterns of meaning. I try to show that something like an apophatic moment in our response to some kinds of suffering is both necessary and difficult to sustai... Read More about Negative Theology and Meaningless Suffering.

Is an Apophatic Trinitarianism Possible? (2010)
Journal Article
Kilby, K. (2010). Is an Apophatic Trinitarianism Possible?. International Journal of Systematic Theology, 12(1), 65-77. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2400.2009.00494.x

A good deal of recent theology has been characterized by a robust, self-confident trinitarianism. Is it possible, by contrast, to develop something like an apophatic trinitarianism? This article attempts to sketch what such a thing might look like an... Read More about Is an Apophatic Trinitarianism Possible?.

Aquinas, the Trinity and the Limits of Understanding. (2005)
Journal Article
Kilby, K. (2005). Aquinas, the Trinity and the Limits of Understanding. International Journal of Systematic Theology, 7(4), 414-427. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2400.2005.00175.x

Thomas's trinitarian doctrine is commonly criticized as being abstract and unbiblical; several writers have offered defences against this charge, but these perhaps ignore too much the genuinely reticent and apophatic aspects of Thomas's thought. In t... Read More about Aquinas, the Trinity and the Limits of Understanding..