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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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Theology of culture in a Japanese context: a believers' church perspective [PDF]
This thesis explores an appropriate relationship between Christian faith and culture. We investigate the hallmarks of authentic theology in the West, which offer us criteria to evaluate Christianity in Japan.
Fujiwara, A., Fujiwara, Atsuyoshi
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On Saving Theology in Public Universities in South Africa [PDF]
The status of theological education is declining in public universities in Africa. This article focused on the decline of theology in South African public universities.
Collium Banda
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Teaching New Religious Movements Historically: Distance, Empathy, and Cults in the Classroom
ABSTRACT Resistance to understanding the beliefs of modern New Religious Movements (NRMs) is well‐known to those who teach in the area. This paper builds on Eugene Gallagher's repurposing of “methodological belief” for college classes on NRMs by suggesting that scholars and teachers in the field of religious studies engage methods and content drawn ...
Douglas FitzHenry Jones
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Voices carry: An archaeology of the Hervormd approach
From the investigative premise of a Foucauldian archaeology of knowledge, this article attempts to unearth the layers of ideas which constituted the Hervormd approach to doing theology over the past century. Digging into seemingly disassociated bodies of
Johann Beukes
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Learning to Treat Other Ways of Being Generously Through the Biblical Studies Classroom
ABSTRACT This article outlines an approach to teaching the biblical texts that helps students develop the transferable cognitive skill of understanding the other on their own terms. It appeals to research on threshold concepts, deep and surface approaches to learning, and student centered/conceptual change approaches to teaching to combine the role of ...
John Van Maaren
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Reading Nietzsche in an Age of Conspiracy Theories
Abstract This essay considers Friedrich Nietzsche's critique of Christian morality as a template for interpreting the epistemology of modern conspiracy theorists. The first section elucidates Nietzsche's notion of ressentiment as it can be applied to contemporary conspiracism. The effectiveness of this comparative assessment thus raises the question of
J.W. Olson
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THE PRINCIPALS OF THEOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE [PDF]
The author of the article undertakes an eff ort to formulate a defi nition of theology that could take account of all key positions of that kind of activity — scientifi c as well as spiritual.
P. MIKHAYLOV
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Anabaptist theology is the expression and communication of theological convictions that have sustained the ordinary life of faith communities within the Anabaptist tradition of Christianity.
Jamie Pitts, Luis Tapia Rubio
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Modern Theology of the Nation: The Tasks, Requirements, and Methods of Its Formation
The article points to the need for the theology of the nation and the prospects for its development, as well as its potential to provide the church and society with meanings that can contribute to a positive solution of both inter-confessional issues ...
Viacheslav HORSHKOV
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