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Kairos moments and prophetic witness: Towards a prophetic ecclesiology [PDF]

, 2016
The thirtieth anniversary of the publication of the Kairos Document was celebrated in August 2015. This was the most radical of several theological declarations issued by Christians during the struggle against apartheid.
John De Gruchy
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Doing Justice to Life in All Its Dimensions: Nurturing Humanism as Aesthetic Existence in the Church as a Sphere of Freedom

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this essay the author examines what Dietrich Bonhoeffer meant when he wrote from prison to his friend Eberhard Bethge and said that he wanted to retrieve “aesthetic existence” in the life of the church as a sphere of freedom. This is related to what he also told Bethge, namely, that it is “only as we hold fast to Christ as cantus firmus ...
John W. de Gruchy
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Black Humanism: Sameness and Difference in Being Human and Being Black in the United Kingdom

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay outlines a variety of responses to a central question pertaining to Black humanism: namely, what does it mean to be a Black human, given the existence of systemic racism within the Body of Christ and in many White majority societies in the African Diaspora, in this case, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain?
Anthony G. Reddie
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The Reverb of Divine Revelation: Theological Poetics in John of the Cross

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the theological poetics of John of the Cross, investigating both the conditions under which contemplative experience gives rise to speech and the theological status of that speech within John's account of divine revelation.
Michael C. Costas
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From Protest to Prophecy: Gen Z and the Renewal of Christian Public Witness in the 21st Century

Богословські роздуми: Східноєвропейський журнал богословʼя
Between 2024 and 2026, Generation Z (hereafter Gen Z) raised powerful calls across the world for justice, accountability, and reform. From Kenya to Mongolia, Peru to Serbia, their activism, whether on the streets or online, emerged from periods of ...
Alfred Sebahene
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The Transmission mechanisms of the position and Functions of Prophets in Abrahamic Religions [PDF]

Comparative Theology, 2013
Prophethood, possesses a profound significance in the Abrahamic religions. Prophets act as mediums, through whom the message of God is received and delivered to people, and thus fulfill two kinds of epistemological and Responsible functions: one related ...
S. Roohollah Shafiee, Mohammad Reza Vasfi   +1 more
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Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
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The Evolution of Venezuelan Evangelical Involvement in Politics: The Case of the 2024 Presidential Elections

Religions
After his questionable re-election in 2018, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Moros (NMM) began a campaign to attract the attention of evangelical leaders, apostles, prophets, pastors, and church members to secure their votes for the 2024 campaign. The
Fernando Adolfo Mora-Ciangherotti
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Why Liberalism Might Last

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Can Liberalism Last?’ Anomaly and Faria (2023) argue that liberal societies tend to undermine their own long‐term survival, chiefly by fostering conditions—urbanization, mass migration from culturally distant regions and sub‐replacement fertility—that erode social trust and grant a demographic advantage to illiberal groups, whereas ...
Bouke de Vries, Maarten Boudry
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Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
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