Enduring After God: An Anatheistic Reframing of Augustine on Suicide
The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper proposes a retrieval of Augustine's argument on suicide in De Civitate Dei I.17–27, rearticulating its ethical core for a post‐theistic age through the hermeneutic lens of Richard Kearney's anatheism. Confronting the dual reality of persistent suicide and declining religiosity, I argue that Augustine's pastoral case against ending ...
Kornelius Lumbanbatu
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Theological Doctrines as Scientific Theories? Thinking along with and beyond McGrath
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract McGrath's recent analysis of the parallels between scientific theory formation and the development of theological doctrine in The Nature of Christian Doctrine (OUP, 2024) is insightful and largely compelling, but also raises some questions and areas for further exploration. First, there is a remarkable back‐and‐forth between uses of ‘doctrine’
Gijsbert van den Brink
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African Christianity and the Bible
Journal of the Council for Research on ReligionHistorically, issues relating to the critical role of the Bible in gospel proclamation and its contextual relevance across diverse socio-political milieus have dominated the theological and missiological landscapes of the Christian Church.
Clement O. Oyelakin
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Reading Isaiah 58 in conversation with I.J. Mosala: an African liberationist approach
Acta Theologica, 2016 This paper sets out to draw on, and simultaneously depart from Mosala’s Black biblical hermeneutic of liberation in order to navigate liberating possibilities that Isaiah 58 could offer to the oppressed Black people in Southern Africa.
N. Mtshiselwa
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Redefining love: Engaging the Johannine and Akan concepts of love through dialogic hermeneutics
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023 Both the Johannine and Akan cultures are described in scholarly literature as collectivistic communities that value love as a communal value. Nonetheless, a scholarly analysis of the Akan concept reveals that Akan proverbial tradition promotes love ...
Godibert K. Gharbin, Ernest Van Eck
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Introduction: The Rationale for This Special Issue☆
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This introduction outlines the rationale and scope of our special issue examining Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine (2024). It contextualizes McGrath’s work within ongoing debates about doctrine’s nature since George Lindbeck’s influential typology, then presents six critical responses from scholars in historical theology ...
Michael Borowski, Gijsbert van den Brink
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Reading and proclaiming the Birth Narratives from Luke and Matthew: A study in empirical theology amongst curates and their training incumbents employing the SIFT method [PDF]
, 2013 Drawing on Jungian psychological type theory, the SIFT method of biblical hermeneutics and liturgical preaching suggests that the reading and proclaiming of scripture reflects the psychological type preferences of the reader and preacher.
Greg Smith +4 more
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The establishment of Pan-African Television Channel that expresses the common aspirations of the African Peoples (Item Proposed by the Arab Republic of Egypt) [PDF]
, 2005 Assembly Of The African Union Fifth Ordinary Session 4 – 5 July 2005 Sirte ...
African Union
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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In the context of the European Union's (EU's) geoeconomic shift, the governance of Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) has become a central yet contested pillar of its external trade policy. Accusations of green colonialism highlight the stakes around how partner countries interpret the EU's normative agenda.
Camille Nessel, Zhihang Wu
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Anything new under the sun of African Biblical Hermeneutics in South African Old Testament Scholarship?: Incarnation, death and resurrection of the Word in Africa [PDF]
, 2015 800x600 In this article, two lenses are used to engage the task of African Biblical Hermeneutics. The one lens is derived from African wisdom, i shavha i sia muinga i ya fhi?, in which there is a need for people to affirm their own roots ...
Hulisani Ramantswana +1 more
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