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Honouring the Past, Embracing the Future
The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.Abstract The United Church of Canada, founded in 1925, represents an ambitious experiment in church union that blends Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist traditions. Over the past century, the church has played a pivotal role in shaping Canadian society by advocating for social justice, Indigenous reconciliation, interreligious dialogue ...
Hyuk Cho
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Social Justice as a Catalyst for Ecumenical Engagement
The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article provides a comprehensive overview of the historical formation of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America (FCC), examining the social and political context in the United States that shaped its adoption of ecumenical practices focused on social justice.
Geneva Blackmer
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International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This paper is a response to John Betz's book, Christ, the Logos of Creation: An Essay in Analogical Metaphysics (Emmaus Academic, 2023). The essay confines itself to answering two methodological questions, namely: Does Przywara's approach to analogy indeed represent the basic form (‘Denkform’) that analogy has ‘always assumed’ in Catholic ...
Archie J. Spencer
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Law and gospel as hermeneutic: Martin Luther and the Lutheran tradition [PDF]
, 1983 It is difficult or impossible to use the Lutheran idea of \u27Law and Gospel\u27 as a guide to the theological content of the Bible. The idea has poor biblical support and accounts for a number of ambiguities in Lutheran theology relating to ...
Hordern, Richard P.
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Palamism Does Not Disfigure the Gospel: A Reply to Thomas Weinandy
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract In a 2024 article in the IJST, Fr. Thomas Weinandy argues that the theological system of Gregory Palamas is in grave error, especially with respect to its commitment to an objective ontological distinction between God's essence and His energies. In his concluding paragraph Fr.
Travis Dumsday
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Theological Doctrines as Scientific Theories? Thinking along with and beyond McGrath
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract McGrath's recent analysis of the parallels between scientific theory formation and the development of theological doctrine in The Nature of Christian Doctrine (OUP, 2024) is insightful and largely compelling, but also raises some questions and areas for further exploration. First, there is a remarkable back‐and‐forth between uses of ‘doctrine’
Gijsbert van den Brink
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Prosperity gospel: A missiological assessment
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014 The article attempts to establish that prosperity gospel is rooted in the faulty interpretation of several biblical passages. The prosperity gospel portrays wealth and riches as a covenant and the fulfilment of the divine promise of God to his people ...
Eric Z.M. Gbote, Selaelo T. Kgatla
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3. Jerusalem: Jesus Christ and St. Paul
, 1958 What we know of the actual life of Jesus comes almost exclusively from the four gospels, primarily from the first three. The earliest of these, believed to be Mark, was written about thirty years after the death of Jesus.
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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
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Analyzing Professions of Faith in the Fourth Gospel: is Everyone Who Believes Saved?
Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel UniversityThis study will examine the different formulae used in the Fourth Gospel to see if they are the key indicator to whether a character being described has adequate or inadequate belief in Jesus.
Croteau David A.
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