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Language, Otherness, and the Art of Struggle: A Dialogical Reading of the People of Babel
Abstract Many have valued the story of Babel for its anthropological insights. However, what these might be has remained contentious. One of the most recent debates has concerned the nature of the people's sin. Where more traditional accounts have accentuated the severity of their actions and the finality of God's retributive response, other ...
Matthew D. Kirkpatrick
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One of the prolific writers in the discipline of African Biblical Hermeneutics is the Nigerian Old Testament (OT) scholar, Professor Tuesday David Adamo.
Madipoane Masenya (Ngwan'a Mphahlele)
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On Loving in Order to Know: Marion and Lonergan on Religious Experience
Abstract In what follows, I consider Lonergan's account of the nature of religious experience in comparison with the work of contemporary phenomenologist and philosopher of religion Jean‐Luc Marion, arguing that despite important differences in philosophical method both authors conclude that a particular form of love is the defining characteristic of ...
Gregory P. Floyd
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Lost in Communication? Beyond the Aporia of Kenosis
Abstract Contemporary kenoticist Christologies reach an impasse when they conflate metaphorical and analogical predication. Interpreting divine “self‐emptying” in analogical terms—as divine self‐divestment—generates ethical concerns as well as philosophical, exegetical, and doctrinal difficulties.
Ligita Ryliškytė SJE
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Revisiting the Healing Narrative of the Gospel in the COVID-19 Pandemic. [PDF]
Wijaya Y.
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Biblical Reasoning and the value of devout reading
Abstract ‘Biblical Reasoning’ is an experimental practice of shared scriptural reading amongst Christians from different churches. A central motivation for its development was the hope that it might provide a space within which ecumenical differences could be explored, and in which strands of deep mutual learning could grow across those differences ...
Mike Higton
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Reading Galatians 3:28 from a congregational perspective
How would reading a biblical text (Gal. 3:28) be interpreted from a congregational perspective? First, the article uses a model of African hermeneutics to develop a more contextual reading of a text.
W.J. Schoeman
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The Genesis of Iconographic Exegesis. [PDF]
Klein Cardoso S.
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Abstract The 1950 monograph Marie et l'Islam (Mary and Islam) by Jean‐Mohammed Abd‐el‐Jalil, OFM (1904‐1979) is an early example of Christian–Muslim comparative theology in the Catholic Church. Writing in the decade immediately prior to the Second Vatican Council, Abd‐el‐Jalil's work strongly anticipates the form and content of contemporary comparative
Mark Spinnenweber
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