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Theodicy, Regress, and the Problem of Eternal Separation

, 2023
The problem of eternal separation is the problem of explaining how someone could be happy in heaven while knowing that his beloved is in hell.  Some argue that this problem is insoluble, while others try to solve it through the lover, the beloved ...
Donald Bungum, Bungum, Donald
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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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THE STATUS OF THE ANOMALY IN THE FEMINIST GOD‐TALK OF ROSEMARY RUETHER

Zygon, 1990
. Scripture, the creeds, and tradition have provided the raw material that theology has attempted to refine. The contribution of much recent theology comes from new insight into these materials by women, blacks, and the Third World, often as examined by
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On the Priority of Tradition: An Exercise in Analytic Theology

Open Theology, 2017
This essay discusses the nature and relative priority of the sources for analytic theology with an eye to the manner in which the analytic theologian ought to orient herself to them.
Nemes Steven
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Theology for Equivocators

TheoLogica
This essay concerns glut-theoretic theology. Glut-theoretic theists hold that God exists and that some statements about him are both true and false at once.
Andrew Bassford
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PALAMISM AND DISPOSITIONALISM: COMMENT ON RASLAU'S INTEGRATION OF ORTHODOX THEOLOGY WITH CONTEMPORARY METAPHYSICS OF SCIENCE

Zygon, 2022
In a recent volume of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, Flavius Raslau proposes a new and intriguing integration of Palamite theology with key currents of thought in analytic philosophy of science.
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Persistent Alarms Confronting New Priorities: Protestants in Africa in Italian and French Catholic Magazines (1945–1962)

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
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Metaphor and the Mind of God in Nevi’im

TheoLogica, 2018
In The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture, Yoram Hazony contrasts the uses of metaphor in Nevi’im and the New Testament. According to Hazony, metaphor is employed by Jesus to obscure teachings, but the prophets of the Hebrew Scriptures use metaphor to make ...
S. N. Nordby
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A History of ‘Religious History’

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
As a category denoting the analysis of religious actors across history disinterestedly and on their own terms, “religious history” is a relatively recent coinage. This article offers a brief contextualisation of the emergence of the field in the twentieth century. It distinguishes “religious history” from an older, “confessional” mode of ecclesiastical
Joshua Bennett
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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
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