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Desire: A Theological Reappraisal

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 3-23, January 2025.
Abstract Desire and its cognates—longing, yearning—do a lot of hard work in modern theology, the work grounded in philosophical precedents going back at least as far as the early German Romantics. These precedents helped to inaugurate the twentieth century explorations of psychoanalysis.
Graham Ward
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Reception of Paul’s eschatological teaching in Ghana: A contextual study of 1 Thess. 4:13-18

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
Paul’s teaching on the Parousia and resurrection of the dead has been a subject of contention with the culture of some Ghanaian contexts. The belief in life after death in Ghanaian culture requires the performance of certain rituals for the dead which ...
Godfred Nsiah
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1 Thessalonians 4:1-8: The Thessalonians should live a holy life

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2007
The author argues that 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 should be considered as one coherent pericope. It shows that the term “holiest” does not refer to the god “Kabeiros”, neither that the Greek word “skeuos” means either “spouse” or referring to the male sexual ...
Eduard Verhoef
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The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy and Lutheran Book of Worship: What Was Renewed? [PDF]

, 2003
(Excerpt) Missing first four pages of the 1970s there were those who objected to the idea of liturgy as action because they thought it placed an undue emphasis on human activity instead of on God\u27s work through the means of grace.4 Obviously ...
Senn, Frank C
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Living on This Earth as in Heaven: Time and the Ecological Conversion of Eschatology

Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 833-858, October 2024.
Abstract Eschatological and apocalyptic patterns of thought are today prominent in environmental discourse, across multiple disciplines and media. Yet some theologians criticise these thought patterns for their role in perpetuating and even causing the environmental degradation we now witness. This article argues that the construal of salvation and the
Gunnar Gjermundsen
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Das Verständnis von Arbeit im Neuen Testament im Horizont der Naherwartung

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1989
Understanding labour in the New Testament against the backdrop of the delay of the parousia What is central in the New Testament: industriousness (cf 2 Th 3: 10) or labour evasion (cf Mt 6: 25)?
D. Dormeyer
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Radicalization to the right, secular (ish) pandemic politics and the normalization of the Greek Cypriot far right

Nations and Nationalism, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 441-457, July 2024.
Abstract One of the many dimensions of the global tussle surrounding the Covid‐19 pandemic has been the rise of right‐wing radicalization. In this article, we investigate whether the pandemic offered an opportunity for the Greek Cypriot far‐right party, ELAM, to increase its visibility as an opposition force and in what ways.
Yiannos Katsourides, Leandros Savvides
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Tema nou-testamentară a apropierii și întârzierii parusiei în gândirea creștină a secolelor 17-19

TheoRhēma, 2018
Between the 17th and the 19th century, the tension between the nearness and the delay of the parousia widens, as millenarian views reappear and rationalism is brought about by the Enlightenment.
Laurențiu Florentin Moț
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Die verhouding tussen indikatief en paraklese in die Nuwe Testament, toegelig vanuit die eerste brief aan die Tessalonisense

In die Skriflig, 1990
The leaching on eschalology is of utmost importance in the first epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians. Regarding the parousia of Christ, Paul presents a number of instructions concerning the process of sanctification.
L. Floor
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Occasions for Scarcity: From Ecology towards Theology by Way of Poetry

Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 133-146, January 2024.
Abstract This article begins with an examination of the contested term ‘scarcity’, tracing it through its signal presence in economics, then mutating within ecology, eventually appearing on the margins of theology. If poetry is to offer some degree of mediation, the article considers what would be the basis of an appropriate poetics, one which must be ...
Peter Larkin
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