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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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Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History: A Comment on Becker and Woessmann [PDF]
This comment makes a contribution to Becker and Woessmann’s paper on a human capital theory of Protestant economic history eventually challenging the famous thesis by Max Weber who attributed economic success to a specific Protestant work ethic ...
Benno Torgler, Christoph A. Schaltegger
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A Reading of French Protestantism through French Historical Studies [PDF]
, 2012 Contribution au colloque "Historiography of Religion : New approaches to origins of narrating a religious past", Norrköping (Sweden), 10-14 September 2012This presentation aims to explore the particulat relationship between Protestantism and History in ...
Krumenacker, Yves
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INDIVIDUALISM AS A CONSEQUENCE OF PROTESTANT ETHIC IN PHILOSOPHICAL AND LEGAL TEACHINGS OF M. LUTHER
, 2020 P.B. Pylypyshun
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The Nature of Christian Doctrine: A Conversation with My Critics
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article opens with a brief account of the six main themes of The Nature of Christian Doctrine, noting in particular the role of the early church as an ‘epistemic community’ of knowledge production, and the significant and helpful parallels between the modern scientific tool of ‘inference to the best explanation’ and early Christian ...
Alister E. McGrath
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RADICAL ORTHODOXY AND PROTESTANTISM TODAY: JOHN MILBANK IN CONVERSATION
, 2017 John Milbank
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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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The Relationship between Christian Religiosity and Adolescent Substance Use in China. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Li S, Lu J, Chen Y.
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Testimonial for Christ? A Theology of Witness in the Face of Testimonial Studies
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract As a contemporary mode of discourse and basic concept of Christian existence, the concept of witnessing, at the interface of public theology and testimonial studies, is examined with regard to its epistemic dimension: What implications does witnessing as knowledge practice have for theology? To this end, the paper outlines the understanding of
Frederike van Oorschot
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