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Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.Recent scholarship often sees high‐born monastics and clerics in early Christian England as part of the aristocratic class. Modern identity theories, however, suggest that social identity could be dynamic, situational, processual and discursive. In light of this concept, the present article reads Felix’s Life of Guthlac as a text that constructs an ...
Lek Hang Chan
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Sawwa: Jurnal Studi GenderIslam encourages women to achieve the highest intellectual and spiritual abilities and does not prioritize men over women. The early generation of Islam, known as the Ṣaḥabiyyah (companions of the Prophet), played a significant role in narrating hadith ...
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Scripture: Tool of Patriarchy or Resource for Transformation? [PDF]
, 2004 If feminism is a major resource for the transformation of humanity and history in the direction of wholeness and hope, it is also a serious challenge to organized religion and e specially to Christianity because it calls into question the traditional ...
Schneiders, Sandra Marie
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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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The Life of Jesus According to Paul
Богословські роздуми: Східноєвропейський журнал богословʼя, 2016 It is widely accepted in modern biblical scholarship that Paul has little interest in the historical Jesus because he rarely refers to the events of Jesus’ life.
Viktor KALASHNIKOV
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The Quiddity of the Anfosi Exegesis of the Holy Quran [PDF]
آموزههای قرآنی, 2018 The gnostic (irfani) exegesis of the holy Quran is a type of the exegeses in ijtehadi method which has different types, itself. Anfosi (inward) exegesis with the gnostic method interprets the divine verses which in the trend of human perfection after ...
Akram Husseinzadeh, Muhammad Sharifi
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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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International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the doctrine of Christ’s two states of humiliation and exaltation in Herman Bavinck’s and John Calvin’s thought, with the aim of illuminating Bavinck’s use of Calvin. The article begins by exploring Calvin’s use of the two states and argues that his treatment of Christ’s descent into hell is an important though ...
Sarah Killam Crosby
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Kant on Bullshit Jobs—Mere Means and True Means
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Following David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs, there has recently been academic and public discussion about useless work. Immanuel Kant maintains that we ought to be means for others and that there is a duty to be useful. Graeber and Kant are both concerned with a form of harm often overlooked in contemporary ethics and political philosophy, namely,
Martin Sticker
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