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Meaning to be human: Conversations with George Lindbeck‘s The Nature of Doctrine

, 2010
In his The Nature of Doctrine (1984), George Lindbeck offered a culture-theoretical approach to doctrine over against liberal and conservative approaches.
Fletcher, Douglas
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‘By the Very Rivalry’: On Some Necessary Tensions in Newman's Epistemological Formulations in the Idea of a University and the Grammar of Assent

The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Newman's educational writings can present an apparent contradiction or rupture, with the ‘intellectualist’ Idea of a University opposed to the ‘commonsensical’ Grammar of Assent. An appeal to the imagination—to imaginative and implicit reasoning—has sometimes been made in order to reconcile these apparent contradictions. While Newman's thought
Austin Walker
wiley   +1 more source

Embodied Hermeneutics and the Challenge of Intercultural Understanding: Insights from Chinese Traditions

The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Efforts to understand unfamiliar philosophical and religious traditions are often constrained by hermeneutical limitations rooted in the dominance of Western conceptual frameworks. This paper advances embodied hermeneutics as a general model for intercultural understanding—one that grounds interpretation in lived and material expressions of ...
Victoria S. Harrison
wiley   +1 more source

Can Systematic Theology Be Saved? Doctrine and Its Discontents

Religions
This paper explores recent discussions on the nature and character of Christian doctrine and doctrinal arrangement within leading accounts of systematic theology, that is, the attempt to offer an integrated and cohesive account of the central commitments
Andrew Clark-Howard
doaj   +1 more source

African Christian theology: utilizing social media

, 2021
[One day in early 2020, before we knew about the coming pandemic, my friend Wakakuholesanga Chisola and I were lamenting the lack of a forum for discussing the concerns of African theologizing and for networking with likeminded individuals.
Barron, Joshua Robert
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An Alien Word? Cosmic Salvation within a Rahnerian Framework

The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The possibility of life beyond our planet raises serious theological questions for Christians, particularly in the realm of soteriology. How would Jesus of Nazareth relate to such creatures? Is he the ‘universal’ saviour, in the cosmic sense? Or are there other incarnations of the Logos, the Word or Son of God?
Brandon R. Peterson
wiley   +1 more source

Towards a new paradigm of pastoral theology in the social context of Japan [PDF]

, 2001
This thesis, by investigating modem pastoral theologies in the United States and the United Kingdom, explores a new perspective of pastoral theology in Japan.
Nakamura, Andrew K.
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‘To Gather Up All Things in Christ’: John Betz's Christ, the Logos of Creation as an Exercise in the Relation of Doctrines

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article considers John Betz's book Christ, the Logos of Creation as an exercise in the relation of doctrines within Christian systematic theology.
Andrew Davison
wiley   +1 more source

In search of a timeless God

, 2013
In contemporary discussions it is often assumed that God cannot be timeless if presentism is true, but that God can be timeless if four-dimensional eternalism is true.
Mullins, Ryan
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Lay Christian Views of Life After Death: A Qualitative Study and Theological Appraisal of the ‘Ordinary Eschatology’ of Some Congregational Christians [PDF]

, 2011
The thesis investigates the life after death (hereafter LAD) beliefs of members of my Congregational church via in-depth semi-structured interviews. Complementary criteria of critical reflection and visible effect on behaviour are used to identify these ...
Armstrong, Michael Robert, ARMSTRONG, MICHAEL,ROBERT   +1 more
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