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Book Review: I. Practical Theology: 3. Preaching and Piety: Lands and Peoples of the Bible [PDF]
, 1915 Geo. B. Eager
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Feelings Within the UK Bahá’í Faith About the Potential Contribution of Their Faith to the Unity of Humankind. [PDF]
This paper is an investigation conducted with members of the Bahá’í Faith (BF) community in the UK. The contributor is not a Bahá’í but has researched Bahá’í literature and practice over the past 8 years and has close links with regional and national ...
Bigger, Stephen
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Marrying the Unbeliever: Gender, Law, and Disparitas Cultus in Early Modern Japan*
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.The marriage between a Christian and a non‐Christian has been a highly discussed topic in the history of the Catholic Church and canon law. This study aims to analyse the construction of knowledge concerning disparitas cultus by using a broad array of sources including moral theology, canon law, and missionaries' cases that circulated in different ...
Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva
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The True (?) Story of Hilbert's Infinite Hotel [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 What is known as "Hilbert's hotel" is a story of an imaginary hotel with infinitely many rooms that illustrates the bizarre consequences of assuming an actual infinity of objects or events. Since the 1970s it has been used in a variety of arguments, some of them relating to cosmology and others to philosophy and theology.
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Book Review: II. Practical Theology: Efficiency in the Sunday School [PDF]
, 1913 B. H. DeMent
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Public Theology in the face of pain and suffering: A proletarian perspective [PDF]
, 2015 A basic understanding of theology is the quest for knowledge of the Divine—the study of God. But why, one may ask, undertake such an endeavour, and to what end? My simple response would be, to know God is to enhance and enrich my life and service.
Juma, Florence
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article examines the interplay of gender, emotions, and material culture in Jesuit conversion accounts in sixteenth‐century Japan. I analyse the rhetorical strategies of missionaries like Luís Fróis to better understand how conversion narratives were crafted to advance the Jesuits' goal of propagating Christianity in Japan and beyond.
Jessica O'Leary
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Book Review: IV. Practical Theology: The Glory of the Ministry: Paul's Exultation in Preaching [PDF]
, 1911 E. C. Dargan
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article expands upon a central aspect of Holiness evangelist Phoebe Palmer's (1807–1874) theology, which has been only tangentially mentioned by scholars: her gendered identity of motherhood. It first considers how Palmer narrated the deaths of her first two sons in her spiritual narrative The Way of Holiness as divine punishment for her ...
Layla Koch
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Cosmology and the Origin of the Universe: Historical and Conceptual Perspectives [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 From a modern perspective cosmology is a historical science in so far that it deals with the development of the universe since its origin some 14 billion years ago. The origin itself may not be subject to scientific analysis and explanation. Nonetheless, there are theories that claim to explain the ultimate origin or "creation" of the universe.
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