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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2015 A holy, universal church. The Nicene Creed and the Apostolicum went through different processes of growth and development. In the early development of both creeds, it is noticeable that articles about ‘the church’ are absent.
Wim Dreyer
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The Echo of Nicene Faith: A Decolonial Pentecostal Back-gaze
African Christian Theology[Editorial Article] The Nicene faith reverberates through the annals of Christian history, its sacred truths proclaimed with unwavering clarity and solemn authority.
Chammah J. KAUNDA
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Theological Doctrines as Scientific Theories? Thinking along with and beyond McGrath
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract McGrath's recent analysis of the parallels between scientific theory formation and the development of theological doctrine in The Nature of Christian Doctrine (OUP, 2024) is insightful and largely compelling, but also raises some questions and areas for further exploration. First, there is a remarkable back‐and‐forth between uses of ‘doctrine’
Gijsbert van den Brink
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1999 Deconstructing dogma: Tracking the pathways of the creed concerning Jesus' two natures from a present-day perspective. The article presumes that religious language develops according to four phases: a movement from foundational religious expeience to ...
Andries van Aarde
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Eastern Church Fathers on Being Human—Dichotomy in Essence and Wholeness in Deification
Religions, 2021 The article traces the formation of Eastern Christian anthropology as a new religious and philosophical tradition within the Early Byzantine culture. The notion “Patristics” is reasoned as a corpus of ideas of the Church Fathers, both Eastern and Western.
Olga Chistyakova
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Flint's 'Molinism and the Incarnation' is Too Radical [PDF]
, 2015 In a series of papers, Thomas P. Flint has posited that God the Son could become incarnate in any human person as long as certain conditions are met (Flint 2001a, 2001b). In a recent paper, he has argued that all saved human
Mullins, R. T.
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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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Johannine Revelation, Nicene Witness
ReligionsOn its seventeenth centenary, I seek to reassess the theological significance of the Nicene Creed, drawing inspiration from Athanasius, who came to see the Creed as a privileged transmission of the apostolic teaching based on the Revelation granted by ...
Joseph S. O’Leary
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Conciliar Christology and the Consistency of Divine Immutability with a Mutable, Incarnate God [PDF]
, 2018 [paragraph 3 of the article] The goal of this article is to flesh out that initial understanding of incarnational immutability. The method I employ to attain this goal is to consider cases of predications from the texts of conciliar Christology.
Pawl, Timothy
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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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