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The Nature of Christian Doctrine: A Conversation with My Critics

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article opens with a brief account of the six main themes of The Nature of Christian Doctrine, noting in particular the role of the early church as an ‘epistemic community’ of knowledge production, and the significant and helpful parallels between the modern scientific tool of ‘inference to the best explanation’ and early Christian ...
Alister E. McGrath
wiley   +1 more source

From the mother’s arms to the holy table. On the influence of the iconography of the presentation of Christ in the temple on the programmatic evolution of altar paintings in Byzantine churches [PDF]

Zograf, 2019
This research explores the relationship between iconographicprogrammatic innovations in altar wall paintings of post-Iconoclastic churches intended to facilitate liturgical interpretation and depictions of the Theotokos (with Christ) usually ...
Mitrović Todor
doaj   +1 more source

Snapshots from a Fast‐Moving Train: Religious History 1960–2025

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Alexandra Walsham
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: The Rationale for This Special Issue☆

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This introduction outlines the rationale and scope of our special issue examining Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine (2024). It contextualizes McGrath’s work within ongoing debates about doctrine’s nature since George Lindbeck’s influential typology, then presents six critical responses from scholars in historical theology ...
Michael Borowski, Gijsbert van den Brink
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

From Shared Meal to Interreligious Shared Communities: Interpretation of Eucharist in Luke 22:14-20, Tradition of Makan Patita and Fayatat as a model for Peace Maintenance of Maluku [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology
The Maluku conflict from 1999 to 2004 provides valuable data for building interreligious shared communities. In the pursuit of peace, religion and the local culture of Maluku played a significant role.
Yohanes Parihala, Rachel Iwamony, Olivia R. Sekewael   +2 more
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On Not Being Stuck: Changing Humanities in 20th‐ and 21st‐Century Britain: The Lorna Sage Lecture, 2025

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Helen Small
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Insights on the Eucharist in the Iberian Peninsula: Theological and Pastoral Challenges from the life and thought of Mercedes Carreras Hitos (Madre Trinidad)

Acta Universitatis Carolinae Theologica
Like the rest of the Christian world, the Iberian Peninsula has seen different ways of approaching and living the faith over the centuries, particularly of living the Eucharist.
Susana Vilas Boas
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Trauma Theology

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2023
Trauma theology is a theological discipline that seeks to both do theological justice to traumatic experiences and also to reimagine theologies in the light of such experiences.
Karen O'Donnell
doaj