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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

open access: yesInternational 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Theological Poetics of Pauline κένωσις in Patristic Authors: A Dialogue with Michael C. Magree☆

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This review engages in dialogue with Magree's methodological assumptions (literary, rhetorical, philosophical and theological) and approach to the history of reception of this critically important Pauline passage (Philippians 2:7) and then provides a critical assessment of the textual evidence for his contention that Origen of Alexandria ...
Margaret M. Mitchell
wiley   +1 more source

DIVINE AND HUMAN AGENCY IN SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM AND PAUL: A COMPARISON OF SIRACH, HODAYOT, AND ROMANS 7–8 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Recent scholarship on Second Temple Judaism and Paul has maintained that both held “salvation” to be through God’s grace not human obedience. This study challenges this claim.
MASTON, JASON
core  

Understanding Judaism: A guide for teachers

open access: yes
This book is not available on ChesterRep.This book explores the beliefs and practices of Judaism as a lived religion in the United Kingdom and addresses issues of representation.
Holt, James D.
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“Me and God, We're Good”: Abortion Morality and Protestant Women Having Abortions in the South

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how 84 Protestant women in the South understand the morality of their abortion decisions, offering a nuanced perspective on the complex relationship between religion and abortion and revealing that many women navigate abortion decisions with theological depth, moral reasoning, and a profound sense of responsibility.
Rebecca Todd Peters
wiley   +1 more source

REFLECTIONS ON THE DISTINCTNESS OF JUDAISM AND THE SCIENCES

open access: yesZygon, 2011
.  The object of this essay is to explain what there is about discussions of Judaism and the sciences that is distinctive from discussions about religion in general and the sciences.
doaj   +2 more sources

Religio‐Racial Lines, Intimate Ties: Christian–Muslim Couples, Birth Rituals, and the Bounds of Belonging

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
wiley   +1 more source

How Economics Helped Shape American Judaism [PDF]

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This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century.
Chiswick, Carmel U.
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“A Person's God Should Look Like Them”: African Traditional Religions Among Black Queer Millennials and Gen Z Americans

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are young Black Americans practicing spirituality contemporarily? Today younger generations of Black Americans are more likely than older Black Americans to identify as religiously unaffiliated or as practicing a non‐Christian faith. Drawing on 109 interviews with Black Millennial and Gen Z Americans, I examine how some of these younger ...
Terrell J. A. Winder
wiley   +1 more source

Judaism and Emotion - Texts, Performance, Experience

open access: yes, 2013
Judaism and Emotion breaks with stereotypes that, until recently, branded Judaism as a rigid religion of laws and prohibitions. Instead, authors from different fields of research discuss the subject of Judaism and emotion from various scholarly ...

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