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Eros as the Meeting of Ecstasies in Christ: The Eucharistic Link between Divine and Human Love in Dionysius the Areopagite

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Dionysius's vision of eros as a meeting of reciprocal ecstasies – where lover and beloved each pass out of themselves and into the other – has often been read as unifying dimensions of love otherwise thought to stand in tension, such as giving and receiving.
Noah Karger
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BLUE THEOLOGY AND WATERSHED DISCIPLESHIP IN SOUTH AFRICA

Acta Theologica, 2019
In an era increasingly shaped by escalating water crises, Ched Myers calls the church to watershed discipleship, arguing that watershed discipleship is a faithful response to Christian mission amidst a looming environmental catastrophe.
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Theological training in Pentecostal-Charismatic Churches: A necessity for discipleship

In die Skriflig
Theological education is downplayed by many Pentecostal-Charismatic Churches (PCCs), resulting in church leaders who lack theological proficiency.
Ronele M. Prince, Johannes J. Knoetze
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Educating Anglicans: A case study investigating group work in the Church of England

In die Skriflig, 2014
The dominant form of group work in the Church of England is educational and directive. An investigation was carried out to determine whether other forms of group work could be valuable for the Church in addition to this approach.
Roger Grainger
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Grace: Free, costly, or cheap?

, 2011
This thesis examines the concept of cheap and costly grace in Discipleship within the context of Bonhoeffer’s theological, and historical background. I shall argue that cheap grace is not grace but rather an ironic statement that Bonhoeffer created in ...
Ingram Btheol, Virginia
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Religion and Black/White Residential Segregation: The Influence of Religious and Regional Context

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on religious tradition and residential segregation focuses on “open” versus “closed” civic orientations, but ignores the structural effects of religious fields as well as other relevant differences, such as Catholic immigrant parishes and the communal role of Black Protestantism in response to racial hostility in large northern cities
David Sikkink, Michael Emerson
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Be Fruitful and Multiply? Complementarianism, Pronatalism, and Suppression of Reproductive Rights

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT At least since the second wave of the feminist movement, policy issues related to gender have generated deep social and political divisions. Past work has analyzed the role of general religious variables or gender worldviews (such as various forms of sexism), but not the two in combination.
Brooklyn Walker, Paul A. Djupe
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The Church Discipleship: Real Praxis

, 2019
This paper presents a holistic model for effective discipleship. Definitions of discipleship used by several ecclesiastical denominations as well as a secular perspective are examined, but biblical examples and principles of discipleship serve as the ...
Rojas, Omar
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Christian discipleship and interfaith engagement

, 2009
Ever since the famous 1910 Edinburgh World Mission conference Christian individuals and the Christian Church have been increasingly challenged to relate in new ways to people of other faiths.
Douglas, Pratt, Douglas Pratt
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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