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Unitas and concordia in the confessions: significance for fellowship among Lutheran churches [PDF]
, 1981 There is a sufficient basis in the Augsburg Confession for doctrinal and confessional unity among Lutherans. The paper suggests that while sufficient debate has taken place on the theological substance of the Confessions, not enough attention has been ...
Nostbakken, Roger W.
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International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine examines the interplay between Scripture, the Rule of Faith, and evolving Christian doctrine and tradition. Focusing on McGrath’s critique of Lindbeck’s presentation of doctrinal modalities, the article explores how doctrinal formation involves primarily synchronic (canonical),
Tomas Bokedal
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Testimonial for Christ? A Theology of Witness in the Face of Testimonial Studies
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract As a contemporary mode of discourse and basic concept of Christian existence, the concept of witnessing, at the interface of public theology and testimonial studies, is examined with regard to its epistemic dimension: What implications does witnessing as knowledge practice have for theology? To this end, the paper outlines the understanding of
Frederike van Oorschot
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Doctrine, Narrative and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Conversation with Alister McGrath
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article offers a critical and appreciative response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine, exploring the formation of doctrine as a dynamic communal process rooted in Scripture, liturgy and historical context. It highlights McGrath’s analogy between doctrinal development and scientific method, emphasising the search for a ...
Frances Margaret Young
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Pentecostalism and Covenantalism: Towards a Pneumatological Covenant Theology of dealing with Adversity [PDF]
E-Journal of Religious and Theological StudiesCovenant theology seeks to explore the connection between deity and humanity which spans from the time of creation to the time when God sent his son to redeem the world from sin.
Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
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Thinking the World: Gregory of Nyssa on the Definitive Calling of Humanity
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract In this response essay to John Behr’s Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God, Rowan Williams highlights Gregory’s exposition of the complex account of nous and its meaning in relation to sensory embodiment. Nous, in Gregory’s treatise, is the presence of unified divine activity in the diversity of creation.
Rowan Williams
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Scandals of Reason - Literature and Theology in Jorge Luis Borges’s “La otra muerte”
Teoliterária: Revista Brasileira de Literaturas e Teologias, 2015 Borges’s definition of theology as “una parte de la literatura fantástica” has been quoted countless times as an example of borgesian scepticism. Nevertheless, the various relationships which Borges establishes between literature and theology are more ...
Lucas Martín Adur Nobile
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’n Oorsig oor die diakoniologiese rol van die Gereformeerde belydenisskrifte in kerkwees
In die Skriflig, 1991 While theology usually concentrates on the history and content of the Reformational creeds, less systematised information is available about the ministry and service which these creeds should fulfil in the life of the church as believers.
B. Spoelstra
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THE THEOLOGY OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY: SACRED TEXTS AND DOCTRINAL FOUNDATIONS
, 2022 S. Poliarush, Vjlodymyr Lyalyovych
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