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When confessing sin feels good
Abstract This paper draws on a qualitative study of how young people engaged in two youth ministries in the Church of Norway reflect on sin and shame in relation to their existential dilemmas . The authors analyze this practice through the lens of Hartmut Rosa's concept of resonance, arguing that there is consonance between how young people in the ...
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Qualifying Mediterranean connectivity: Byzantium and the Franks during the seventh century
In the last two decades, historians researching the seventh century ce have increasingly emphasized mobility, communications and connectivity across the Mediterranean world that supposedly included close contacts between the Franks and Byzantium. These studies, however, rely often on optimistic, maximum interpretations of the comparatively sparse ...
Mischa Meier, Steffen Patzold
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Simon of Tournai's Stroke: The Image of an Irate Unbeliever
For centuries after his death in the late twelfth century, Simon of Tournai, a master of theology in the Parisian schools, had a reputation for being an unbeliever punished by God with a stroke. This article gathers the eight known medieval sources for his stroke and examines them from a mythogenetic perspective to demonstrate how different authors ...
Keagan Brewer
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Of Signs: Matter and Revelation in the Liturgies of William Durand and John Calvin
Abstract This article seeks to set aside what we might call Cartesian physics to revisit William Durand's conception of sign as set forth in the Rationale divinorum officiorum and John Calvin's as set forth in the Institutio christianae religionis. Reading the two works through the lens of medieval physics reveals commonalities – both held signs to be ...
Lee Palmer Wandel
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Erich Przywara’s Late Reception of Luther
Abstract Erich Przywara’s late career writings have to this point received little attention in English. While Przywara’s earlier writings include both significant dialogue with Protestant theologians (most prominently Karl Barth) and occasional references to Martin Luther, Luther takes on a new prominence in his work after the Second World War.
Adam T. Morton
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Becoming society again: Reimagining new social contracts through Scandinavian creation theology
Abstract This article focuses on bodily care as the basis of economy. Drawing on Luther and Scandinavian Creation Theology, with an emphasis on shared situatedness and society, I discuss contemporary threats to welfare states. Conservative arguments in favor of family and small communities, combined with charity, provide a cultural/religious alibi for ...
Elisabeth Gerle
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Being, belonging, and borders: Scandinavian creation theology as political theology
Abstract Desire for life and protecting lives has come to the fore during the pandemic. Borders have been closed to stop the spread of Covid‐19. The virus does not respect borders, yet physical distance is crucial. Three things have become clear. One is the level of uncertainty about which measures are most efficient.
Elisabeth Gerle
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The 500 anniversary of the event that marks the beginning of the Reformation is an opportunity to revisit some of its radical claims. Among them is that liberation and salvation are related but distinct.
Vítor Westhelle
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Godsbegrippe en die funksie van metafore in die rousmartproses1
Grief, metaphors and images of God. This article atempts to give new meaning to the discussion of "grief," "metaphors's" and "images of God" in such a way that new meaning of life within grief becomes a spiritual way of living, a life coram Deo.
W. Smith, T. F.J. Dreyer
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The Solitary Mind in the Anatomy of Melancholy
Critical Quarterly, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 5-24, July 2023.
Angus Gowland
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