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Revisiting the Literal Sense of Scripture, in Dialogue With Thomas Aquinas
International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 331-350, July 2025.Abstract Brevard Childs suggests that ‘one of the burning issues in theology lies in a search to recover a new understanding of the sensus literalis’. In this article, I retrieve and commend Thomas Aquinas's account of the literal sense, using Peter's Pentecost speech in Acts 2 as a way of testing Thomas's mettle.
Christopher R. J. Holmes
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What Gets Changed? Sam Gets Changed? [PDF]
, 1996 (Excerpt) Most of what I learn about ritual and liturgy and church I learn from places that aren\u27t about ritual and liturgy and church-novels and poems and music and dance-and from people who don\u27t know the jargon but often know the Lord and the ...
Huck, Gabe
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Participation in Christ and Divine and Human Righteousness: Reading Paul with Gregory of Nyssa
International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 166-192, April 2025.Abstract Participation in Christ and divine and human righteousness are vital, yet perennially debated, Pauline motifs. Arguably, what is most distinctive and crucial about ‘righteousness’ in Paul's epistles is its christological re‐definition in texts such as 1 Cor 1:30.
Joshua Heavin
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Recovering the Spirit of Mystagogy in the Contemporary Churches [PDF]
, 1988 (Excerpt) The restoration of the catechumenate in the Roman Catholic tradition since the promulgation of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) in 1972 has been a most surprising pastoral success.
Lewinski, Ronald J
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Sustainable development through religious environmental engagement? Evidence from Switzerland
Sustainable Development, Volume 32, Issue 6, Page 6934-6949, December 2024.Abstract This article examines the engagement of religious organizations in addressing environment‐related sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Switzerland and its barriers. To this end, it draws upon semi‐structured interviews with church representatives who are actively engaged in environmental sustainability.
Adam Hearn +3 more
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Did Jesus Exclude Women from Priesthood? [PDF]
, 1977 This sentence purports to give the principle upon which the fundamental affirmation of the Declaration rests, namely, the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith judges it necessary to recall that the Church , in fidelity to the example of the
Schneiders, Sandra Marie
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 345-363, December 2024.Abstract Through the prism of Voltaire's letters on the Quakers (1733) and John Boyle's riposte in his preface to Father Brumoy's The Greek Theatre (1759), some Shakespeare criticism of the period is shown to have drawn on issues of religious controversy, in this case, Methodist enthusiasm, to formulate some of the principal tenets of fledgling ...
Jonathan P.A. Sell
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Narrative, postmodernity and the problem of "religious illiteracy" [PDF]
, 2008 It is popular nowadays to claim not only that narrative is the most effective way to communicate religious knowledge but also that narrative provides the framework within which religious lifestyles and practices are meaningful.
Harrison, V.S.
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Manifestations, social impact, and decay of conceptual beliefs: A cultural perspective
Brain and Behavior, Volume 14, Issue 4, April 2024.Believing comprises multifaceted processes that integrate information from the outside world through meaning making processes with personal relevance. Conceptual beliefs can be about autobiographical, political, religious, and other aspects of life and may be encouraged by participation in group rituals.
Rüdiger J. Seitz +2 more
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Hindu‐Christian Comparative Theology in a Decolonial Key
Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 285-306, April 2024.Abstract This article imagines how the discipline of comparative theology might sound in a decolonial key. Focusing on implications for Hindu‐Christian comparative theology, this article puts the sacramental theological approach of Indian Christian artist and theologian Jyoti Sahi into conversation with Michi Saagiig (Mississauga) Nishnaabeg theorist ...
Michelle Voss
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