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THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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Peter as character in the Gospel of Matthew: complexity and inversion

Horizonte, 2014
This article focuses on the apostle Peter as a character in the Gospel of Matthew.  It aims at identifying the nuances and changes of the character Peter in the Gospel.
João Leonel
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Revisiting justice in the first four Beatitudes in Matthew (5:3-6) and the story of the Canaanite woman (Mt 15:21-28): A postcolonial reading

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2005
Reading the Gospel of Matthew from the perspective of postcolonial theory means taking the context of the Gospel seriously. The political and religious circumstances of Palestine under Roman colonization influenced Matthean redaction.
Lazare S. Rukundwa, Andries G. Van Aarde
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Lonergan, Decolonization and First Nations Peoples: An Apologetic from an Insider on the Outside

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The purpose of this article is to respond critically to a research project initiated out of the Board of the Lonergan Research Institute that seeks to expose colonialist assumptions in Lonergan's thought. Some of the initiatives seek to link Lonergan with complicity in Canadian residential schools, spiritual violence, and cultural genocide ...
John D. Dadosky
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Ensiklopedie van die Evangelie van Matteus: Transtekstuele eggo’s

In die Skriflig, 2016
Encyclopaedia of the Gospel of Matthew: Transtextual echoes. This article argues that the Gospel of Matthew should be interpreted as a commentary on Mark in light of Derrida’s notion ‘difference’, Barthes’ understanding of ‘fictional encyclopaedia’ en ...
Andries G. van Aarde
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City of God and the Duty of Just Memory

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In a recent essay, Richard Miller claims that Augustine presumes a duty to remember justly in his City of God. However, Miller's brief reference to a presumed duty of “just memory” does not fully explain how Augustine conceptualizes this duty or how it relates to his theological concerns.
Zachary J. Taylor
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Duplicitous Remembrance: Confessing Self‐Deception with Augustine

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract While self‐deception has long been a topic of interest in psychology and analytic philosophy—and increasingly in the academic study of theology and religion—direct engagement with Augustine on self‐deception remains underexplored in contemporary scholarship.
Abraham S‐C Wu
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Christian Humanism in the Black Atlantic: The Case of Olaudah Equiano

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores Olaudah Equiano as a pivotal figure in the emergence of a Christian humanism forged within the Black Atlantic. Building on the analyses of Sylvia Wynter and Paul Gilroy, it examines how Equiano's The Interesting Narrative contests the racial figuration of the human that underwrote the development of racial capitalism and ...
Luke Bretherton
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The Matthean community according to the beginning of his gospel

Acta Theologica, 2006
The social setting of the Gospel according to Matthew remains a much debated issue. The theory of a gentile setting with historical roots within Judaism was met with much opposition in recent times. The expression “the parting of the ways” as introduced
F. P. Viljoen
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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