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The Nature of Christian Doctrine: A Conversation with My Critics

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article opens with a brief account of the six main themes of The Nature of Christian Doctrine, noting in particular the role of the early church as an ‘epistemic community’ of knowledge production, and the significant and helpful parallels between the modern scientific tool of ‘inference to the best explanation’ and early Christian ...
Alister E. McGrath
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'Gnosticism' in fourth century Britain: the Frampton mosaics reconsidered [PDF]

, 2003
Recent years have seen a renewed interest in the significance of the mosaic designs employed in Roman houses. Studies have concentrated on establishing the mythological sources of the images chosen, and on describing the social and architectural contexts
Perring, D
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MERCATI ON CYPRIAN AND IRENAEUS. [PDF]

The Journal of Theological Studies, 1900
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Early Interaction Between Scripture, Rule of Faith, and Evolving Christian Doctrine and Tradition: A Response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine examines the interplay between Scripture, the Rule of Faith, and evolving Christian doctrine and tradition. Focusing on McGrath’s critique of Lindbeck’s presentation of doctrinal modalities, the article explores how doctrinal formation involves primarily synchronic (canonical),
Tomas Bokedal
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Doctrine, Narrative and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Conversation with Alister McGrath

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers a critical and appreciative response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine, exploring the formation of doctrine as a dynamic communal process rooted in Scripture, liturgy and historical context. It highlights McGrath’s analogy between doctrinal development and scientific method, emphasising the search for a ...
Frances Margaret Young
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Understanding the pollen and ovule characters and fruit set of fruit crops in relation to temperature and genotype – a review

Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality, 2014
Plant reproduction is indispensable for maintaining crop productivity and species sustainability which basically involves pollen and ovule. Productivity is influenced by temperature stress in various fruit crops worldwide and important factor for ...
Thingreingam Irenaeus, Sisir K. Mitra
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Does God Have a Body? Rāmānuja’s Challenge to the Christian Tradition [PDF]

, 2018
The Christian tradition’s core theological assertion is the embodiment of God in the person of Jesus Christ. Yet, even while asserting God’s incarnation in space and time, the tradition has usually denied embodiment unto the Godhead itself.
Sydnor, Jon Paul
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The Diremption of Meaning

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining work by Rowan Williams, this essay explores what he often refers to as the ‘difficulty’ of writing theology. The difficulty of theology lies in engaging the ruse of having ultimate answers to ultimate questions. The stakes are high: ‘God‐talk’ must concern itself with truth, with reality.
Graham Ward
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A Critique of Irenaeuan Theodicy in the light of proper Biblical Hermeneutics for 21st Century Interpreters. [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology, 2019
Interpretation of the Christian Bible does not go in line with the ethical saying that “The end justifies the means” but rather, the means is as important also, as the end.
Jeremiah Temitope Adelodun
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The Holy Spirit and the early Church: The experience of the Spirit

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2012
Firstly, the present article explored the occurrence of special gifts of the Holy Spirit (charismata) both in the New Testament and in a number of early Christian writers (e.g. Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian and Augustine).
Johannes van Oort
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