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Election, Favoritism, and Freedom: Towards a Modern Jewish Theology of Matrilineal Descent
Abstract This article offers an account of the broad theological contours of the Jewish practice of matrilineal descent. I make the case that matrilineality epitomizes God's contingent preference in favoring and electing Israel. I link Mara Benjamin's recent work to recuperate asymmetrical power relations for feminist theology to the asymmetrical ...
Judah Isseroff
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When confessing sin feels good
Abstract This paper draws on a qualitative study of how young people engaged in two youth ministries in the Church of Norway reflect on sin and shame in relation to their existential dilemmas . The authors analyze this practice through the lens of Hartmut Rosa's concept of resonance, arguing that there is consonance between how young people in the ...
Kristin Graff‐Kallevåg +1 more
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Medical assistance in dying and the trust of faith
Abstract The ethical discussion of end‐of‐life decisions has been with us for some time. This article focuses specifically on medically assisted dying. Representative secular, professional, and faith‐based ethical arguments for and against it are briefly reviewed.
James Merrill Childs
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Religion received: A Lutheran consideration of religion
Abstract This article considers the conception of religion from a contemporary Lutheran perspective. It begins by recollecting the 20th‐century Protestant strife over the concept of religion, and by articulating a deep Protestant ambivalence in regard to religion.
Johanne S. T. Kristensen
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Rewilding life together: Bonhoeffer, spirituality, and interspecies community
Abstract In a time of grave ecological danger, compounding injustices, and resource stresses threatening entire human and ecosystemic populations, we need new forms of life together, an intentional interspecies weirding of inherited religious visions of community. The recent turn toward place‐based thinking orients our gaze back to the actual places we
Lisa E. Dahill
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Religious Emotions and Emotions in Religion: The Case of Sermons
This article examines the challenges posed by combining the categories of religion and emotion in historical studies. It analyses two major ways of framing this: religious emotion and emotions in religion. By taking sermons as a case study, both as a religious practice and a genre of historical source, an approach that retains the useful elements of ...
Stephen Cummins, Max Stille
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Obedient Passion—Passionate Obedience: Ashraf Ali Thanawi's Sermons on the Love of the Prophet
Ashraf Ali Thanawi (1863–1943) was one of the most influential South Asian preachers and authors of the twentieth century. His sermons range from Friday sermons in Arabic to those held before select disciples or at mass rallies in Urdu, and they were printed ever since his lifetime in great number and consistency.
Margrit Pernau, Max Stille
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Journal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 511-515, December 2023.
Christopher Mayes +2 more
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The article is devoted to the review of history of homiletics as a science in the Kyiv theological tradition. On the basis of the analysis of the first domestic work on the theory of the sermon, made by Yoanykyi Haliatovskyi, process of influence of the ...
Volodymyr Bureha
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