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Parthian-India and Aksum: A geographical case for pre-Ezana early Christianity in Ethiopia

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
The narrative of Indian Christianity that is compositely based on Thomine tradition derives significantly from the reality of Parthian-India geo-economics and geopolitics.
Rugare Rukuni
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Contemporary Christian spirituality: a worldly embodiment

open access: yesKoers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 2008
Contemporary renascent spirituality secures for itself a motif of materiality and physical embodiment. This embodiment pertains to renascent spirituality both as lived-life experience and particularly as contemporary academic discipline.
C. Kourie, T.J. Ruthenberg
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Early Ethiopian Christianity: Retrospective enquiry from the perspective of Indian Thomine tradition

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
Ethiopian Christianity’s narrative is aggregately established with an explicit aversion to the account of the Ethiopian Eunuch in the Lukan Acts (Ac 8). The preceding practise neglects a cardinal record in Christian history, as arguably the Book of Acts ...
Rugare Rukuni
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Towards Ecumenical Dialogue between African Pentecostalism and Roman Catholic [PDF]

open access: yesPharos Journal of Theology, 2022
There are undoubtedly differences between Roman Catholic and African Pentecostalism such as doctrinal issues and salvific conceptualisations. Besides non-Catholics, specifically Pentecostal churches have always been perceived as non-churches and lacking ...
Mookgo Solomon Kgatle   +1 more
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On teaching Christian history in the postmodern world

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
Is there truth in history? Historians are commonly expected to produce ‘facts’ and to be ‘objective’. If they teach the history of Christianity, their audience sees in them the depositors of the ‘truth’ on the history of church.
P. Denis
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Christianity and \u27Other Religions\u27: Contributions from the Work of F. Max [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
The history of Christian Thought in the West is not notable for its efforts to come to grips with the claims of other religious traditions, except for the purpose of proselyizatioin, i.e. the concern to save souls.
Neufeldt, Ronald
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American Indians and Christian Missions: Studies in Cultural Conflict [PDF]

open access: yes, 1982
Reviewed Book: Bowden, Henry Warner. American Indians and Christian Missions: Studies in Cultural Conflict. [S.l.]: Univ of Chicago Press, 1981.
Temme, Jon M.
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Public Theology: Historical Milestones [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Humanistic and Social Studies, 2020
Public theology is a relatively new theological field, but its themes and concerns are as old as the interaction between the Christian community and society. Different ages prompted different emphasis and approaches.
Teofil Stanciu
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Augustine’s Paradigm ’ab exterioribus ad interiora, ab inferioribus ad superiora’ in the Western and Eastern Christian Mysticism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
I argue that St. Augustine of Hippo was the first in the history of Christian spirituality who expressed a key tendency of Christian mysticism, which implies a gradual intellectual ascent of the human soul to God, consisting of the three main stages ...
Alexey, Fokin
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Conversion

open access: yesSt Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2022
Conversion – the turning from one religion, belief, or way of life to another informed by the saving activity of Christ – is a central theme of Christianity.
David W. Kling
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