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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
wiley   +1 more source

From Title to Religious Symbolism: A Saussurean and Peircean Semiotic Reading of Ghassan Kenefânî’s Umm Saʿd

open access: yesReligions
This study investigates how the title of Ghassan Kenefânî’s Umm Saʿd functions as a conduit for the novel’s religious symbolism. It addresses the question of whether a literary title can symbolically mirror the sacred imagery embedded within a narrative.
Figen Akay
doaj   +1 more source

René Girard, Unlikely Apologist: Mimetic Theory and Fundamental Theology

open access: yes, 2016
Since the late 1970s, theologians have been attempting to integrate mimetic theory into different fields of theology, yet a distrust of mimetic theory persists in some theological camps. In _René Girard, Unlikely Apologist: Mimetic Theory and Fundamental
Grant Kaplan (17552217)
core   +1 more source

Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
wiley   +1 more source

Thomas Reid, Hume and theology

open access: yes, 2014
Joe Houston unfolds the subtlety of some of the fundamental aspects of Thomas Reid’s response to Hume’s scepticism and religious agnosticism. He discusses Hume’s awareness of the tension between scepticism and daily life; his foundationalist notions of ...
Joseph, Houston
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
wiley   +1 more source

The Third World evangelical missiology of Orlando E. Costas

open access: yes, 2012
This thesis examines the missiological writings of Orlando E. Costas (1943-1987), particularly The Church and Its Mission: A Shattering Critique from the Third World (1974); Theology of the Crossroads in Contemporary Latin America (1976); Christ Outside ...
Tippner, Jeffrey E.
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‘Childish’ and ‘Minors’? Deconstructing Prejudice and Identity Transformation Among Spanish Women Religious During the Long Sixties1

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the identity formation process undertaken by Spanish women's religious following the aggiornamento promoted by the Second Vatican Council. Specifically, it seeks to examine the context in which these women lived and acted, analysing the construction of their identities, their capacity for agency and transgression within ...
Verónica García‐Martín
wiley   +1 more source

A CALL TO FIDELITY: ON THE MORAL THEOLOGY OF CHARLES E. CURRAN

open access: yes, 2002
Foreword / James J. Walter -- Introduction: Charles E. Curran: Catholic theologian, priest, prophet / Daniel C. Maguire -- Pt.1: Fundamental moral theology -- Ch.1: The moral person: moral anthropology and the virtues / Timothy E.
O'Connell, Timothy E.   +2 more
core  

Anti‐Protestantism in the Global Catholic Mission, c. 1918–1960*

open access: yes
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Sante Lesti
wiley   +1 more source

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