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Editorial: Christianity as Material and Virtual Reality

Studies in World Christianity, 2011
Augustine, writing to Jerome at the start of the fifth century after release of Jerome’s Latin translation of the Christian scriptures: A certain bishop, one of our brethren, having introduced in the church over which he presides the reading of your version, came upon a word in the book of the prophet Jonah, of which you have given a very different ...
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Christian Realism and the New Realities

2008
Are religion and public life really separate spheres of human activity? Should they be? In this book, Robin W. Lovin criticizes contemporary political and theological views that separate religion from public life as though these areas were systematically opposed and makes the case for a more integrated understanding of modern society.
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Charisma and Social Reality in Primitive Christianity

The Journal of Religion, 1974
In contemporary parlance "charisma" is scarcely more than a journalistic term used to explain a leader whose success is attributed, at least in part, to an unusually attractive public personality and style. This devalues a currency first circulated in our culture by the apostle Paul and fixed in the modern sociological imagination by Max Weber.
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Returning to Reality

2015
Could it be that we have lost touch with some basic human realities in our day of high-tech efficiency, frenetic competition, and ceaseless consumption? Have we turned from the moral, the spiritual, and even the physical realities that make our lives meaningful?
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Quantum Reality: Some Implications for Christian Theology

2023
Problem Science (and also the myths concerning science) plays a dom inant role in contem porary society. In this study, the epistemological implications of quantum physics were investigated in order to clear aw ay some of the m yths concerning science. Method Q uantum mechanics was studied.
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MOTHERHOOD IN CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM: Critiques, Realities, and Possibilities

Journal of Religious Ethics, 2010
ABSTRACTCommon experiences of mothering offer profound critiques of maternal ethical norms found in both Christianity and Islam. The familiar responsibilities of caring for children, assumed by the majority of Christian and Muslim women, provide the basis for reassessing sacrificial and selfless love, protesting unjust religious and political systems ...
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African Christian Leadership: Realities, Opportunities, and Impact

Journal of Adventist Mission Studies, 2018
"African Christian Leadership is a well-organized, well-written report on some very significant research about leaders and the practice of leadership in the African church. The methodology allowed the researcher to hear from a broad spectrum of African Christians.
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Muslim-Christian Relations: Historical and Contemporary Realities

2015
Abstract Throughout the nearly fifteen centuries of Muslim-Christian encounter, individual adherents of both traditions often have lived peaceably with each other. At the same time, Muslim expansion into Christian territories and Christian imperialism in Muslims lands have fostered fear and ill-will on both sides.
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The World as Creation and Creation as a Cosmotheandric Reality in Christianity

2001
Every religious tradition is characterized by a specific understanding of the three realms: God, World, and Human. But not every tradition (for example, the religions of the Adivasis, Aboriginals of India) reflects thematically on them. Thus the Adivasi religions speak uninhibitedly of the World, Humans, and of the Highest Mystery.
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Virtual Reality Christianity

Theology Today, 1995
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