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Deification in the Baptist Tradition: Christification of the Human Nature Through Adopted and Participatory Sonship Without Becoming Another Christ

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2019
Some contemporary Baptists (Medley and Kharlamov) argue that the conservative Baptists in North America need to incorporate the concept of deification into their traditional soteriology because they failed to present the continual and transforming nature
Cho Dongsun
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Pauline and Johannine Theosis

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
This article looks at Colossians 2–3:17 and John 17:13–26 as the base texts to see the commonalities between Johannine and Pauline conceptions of Theosis.
Ryan A.R. Ferries
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Ecumenical Convergences: Romanian Evangelicals Exploring Orthodoxy

Religions, 2021
Historically, in Romania, the relations between the Romanian Orthodox Church and the evangelical communities have been characterized by tension and mutual distrust.
Cristian Sonea
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Toward the philosophy of creation: Maximus the confessor [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2011
The article aims to present the philosophical argumentation in favor of the Christian idea of the creation of the world exposed in the work of the seventh century author Maximus the Confessor.
Cvetković Vladimir
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Demarcating Deification and the Indwelling of the Holy Spirit in Reformed Theology

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2020
The recent interest in exploring whether authoritative figures of the Reformed tradition employed a concept of theōsis or deification in their soteriology continues to grow.
Leidenhag Joanna
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From Yeezus to Pablo: An Existential Theology between God, Blackness, and Being [PDF]

, 2018
Kanye West has transformed and transfigured from a young rapper representing the Southside of Chicago, to an icon, a rap genius, a god. His persona has continually evolved from his arrival on the Hip Hop scene, leading to his emergence as, Yeezus. This
Watts, Shea
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Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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God Making in China

Temenos, 2022
Some religious leaders tend to gravitate towards claims of increasingly greater holiness. This sometimes results in the assumption of explicitly prophetic roles or in more extreme cases, claims of divinity.
James R. Lewis, Magrethe Løøv
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Alasdair MacIntyre as a Marxist and as a critic of Marxism [PDF]

, 2014
This essay reconstructs Alasdair MacIntyre's engagement with Marxism with a view both to illuminating the co-ordinates of his mature thought and to outlining a partial critique of that thought.
Blackledge, PR
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Schleiermacher's reduction of incarnation to deification

Scottish Journal of Theology, 2023
Schleiermacher's theological champions like Kevin Hector contend that his Christology is ‘high’ and is Chalcedonian in spirit. I offer a number of objections to this view, suggesting that Schleiermacher offers a distinctive, early modern account of ...
Jared Michelson
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