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Theology and development: Taking personal responsibility for community development

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
This article is part of an international research group, CODE, to address the inadequacies of the dominant community development theories and models. This is an attempt to deal with personal responsibility for development from a theological perspective ...
John S. Klaasen
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“Donne mi parver, non da ballo sciolte”:Notes on Dance and Perichoresis in the Wise Spirits:Notes on Dance and Perichoresis in the Wise Spirits [PDF]

, 2017
Surprisingly, the Wise Spirits in the Heaven of the Sun are presented as dancing women. Perhaps, because in the Bible Sapientia appears like a dancing girl.
De Ventura, Paolo
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Living the Trinity: Toward a Perichoretic Paradigm

Religions
This essay offers a relational reinterpretation of the doctrine of the Trinity through perichoresis, understood as the mutual indwelling communion of Father, Son and Holy Spirit in which distinction is preserved without separation and unity without ...
Sang Taek Lee
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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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Perichoresis In Gregory Nazianzen and Maximus the Confessor

, 2012
The doctrine of perichoresis applied to Trinity is the mutual coinherence or interpentration of the Persons of the Godhead. Applied to Christology, perichoreo is, first, the reciprocal passing of characteristics and titles between the divine and human ...
Scalise, Brian T
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Perichōrēsis and the South African ideal

Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 2013
The continuing fulfilment of the South African dream of a ‘rainbow nation’ really needs to be based on a valid model; this can be provided by the biblical representation of the ‘image of the Trinity’.
David T. Williams
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A Christian Pluralistic Hypothesis: To Bonhoeffer and beyond—A World Christianity

Religions, 2023
This essay investigates Bonhoeffer’s undeveloped concept of “Unconscious Christianity” and how a protracted understanding of his religionless Christianity in a culture “come of age” points to a viable Christian pluralistic hypothesis—how Christ and the ...
Greg Gorsuch
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Reading the Creed in the Light of Pentecost: An Eastern European Pneumatic Reflection

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 507-524, October 2025.
Abstract Reading the Creed through pneumatic lenses is essential for understanding both humanity's eschatological destiny in the likeness of the Trinity and the consistently triune economy of salvation. In light of this assertion, the essay highlights aspects of the Creed's explicit and implicit pneumatology, offering a reflection from an Eastern ...
Daniela C. Augustine
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Perichoresis ~a dance~ [PDF]

, 2021
Thesis (D.
Kuriyama, Kenji, 1987-
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The Lord of Limits: On Trinitarian Ontology and the Tragic

Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 658-683, October 2025.
Abstract The essay focuses on a dimension of the trinitarian metaphysics of Rowan Williams. It aims to articulate his understanding of the ontological implications of the Trinity, particularly in relation to his theological leitmotif of the tragic, and has a reparative focus of easing some of the tensions that may arise in such relating.
Khegan M. Delport
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