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Election, Favoritism, and Freedom: Towards a Modern Jewish Theology of Matrilineal Descent
Modern 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
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When confessing sin feels good
Dialog, 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 ...
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Medical assistance in dying and the trust of faith
Dialog, 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
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Religion received: A Lutheran consideration of religion
Dialog, 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
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Rewilding life together: Bonhoeffer, spirituality, and interspecies community
Dialog, 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
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Religious Emotions and Emotions in Religion: The Case of Sermons
Journal 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
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