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Natural Theology

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2022
This article explores the biblical foundations and historical development of natural theology, noting in particular its relationship with the emergence of the natural sciences.
Alister McGrath
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Teaching Historical Theology at the University of Pretoria – Some introductory remarks

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017
The Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria went through a process of restructuring, resulting in the amalgamation of Dogmatics, Christian Ethics, Church History and Church Polity into one department under the name ‘Systematic and Historical ...
Wim A. Dreyer
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The Implications of ‘Religious Experience’ for Catholic-Pentecosotal Dialogue: A Catholic Perspective [PDF]

, 2010
Pentecostals consider the experience of the Holy Spirit to be at the heart of their movement. In dialogue with Pentecostals, Catholics are challenged to probe the resources of Christian experience for the theological enterprise. After examining different
Del Colle, Ralph
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From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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Christianity and Religious Naturalism

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
This article provides an overview of contemporary religious naturalism, with a specific focus on Christian articulations of this emerging worldview and movement.
Mikael Leidenhag
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Cosmology and the Problem of Evil: God and the Second Law

Zygon
For decades, a discussion has raged over the explanation of the peculiarity of our universe due to its fine-tuned constants. One explanation is that ours is one of an infinite number of randomly produced universes.
Lawrence Cahoone
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General Trends in the Development of Western Christian Theology of the Postmodern Era

Культура України, 2018
The aim of the article is to identify strategies for the development of modern Western Christian theology, which is to find a way out of the crisis of the Christian worldview. Research Methodology.
E. V. Marakhovska
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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
wiley   +1 more source

THE FAULT IN US: ETHICS, INFINITY, AND CELESTIAL BODIES

Zygon, 2016
Catherine Keller's Cloud of the Impossible knits together process theology and relational ontology with quantum mechanics. In quantum physics, she finds a new resource for undoing the architecture of classical metaphysics and its location of autonomous ...
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Sustainability in the theology curriculum [PDF]

, 2010
This is the author's PDF version of a book chapter available in Sustainability education: Perspectives and practice across higher education. Edited by Paula Jones, David Selby, and Stephen Sterling. London: Earthscan, 2010.
O'Loughlin, Rebecca, Smith, Simon M., Stuerzenhofecker, Katja   +2 more
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