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Election, Favoritism, and Freedom: Towards a Modern Jewish Theology of Matrilineal Descent

open access: yesModern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 775-795, October 2023., 2023
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
wiley   +1 more source

When confessing sin feels good

open access: yesDialog, Volume 62, Issue 3, Page 259-269, Autumn (Fall) 2023., 2023
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
wiley   +1 more source

Medical assistance in dying and the trust of faith

open access: yesDialog, Volume 61, Issue 4, Page 288-295, Winter 2022., 2022
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
wiley   +1 more source

Religion received: A Lutheran consideration of religion

open access: yesDialog, Volume 61, Issue 3, Page 226-232, Autumn (Fall) 2022., 2022
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
wiley   +1 more source

Rewilding life together: Bonhoeffer, spirituality, and interspecies community

open access: yesDialog, Volume 61, Issue 2, Page 166-176, Summer 2022., 2022
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
wiley   +1 more source

Religious Emotions and Emotions in Religion: The Case of Sermons

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 3-24, March 2021., 2021
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
wiley   +1 more source

Obedient Passion—Passionate Obedience: Ashraf Ali Thanawi's Sermons on the Love of the Prophet

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 25-49, March 2021., 2021
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
wiley   +1 more source

Intellectual Authority and Its Changing Infrastructures in Australian and United States Christianity, 1960s–2010s

open access: yes, 2023
Journal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 511-515, December 2023.
Christopher Mayes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development of homiletics in Kyiv Theological Academy: western influences and the search for its own way

open access: yesНаукові записки НаУКМА: Філософія та релігієзнавство, 2018
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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