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Religious Poetry in Tajik Badakhshan

open access: yes, 1998
One of the customs of the Ismailis of Tajik Badakhshan is the performance of a specific genre of religious poetry, called madah. In madah, literally meaning praise, the veneration of 'Ali, the holy family of the Prophet Muhammad, the Ismaili imams, and the 11th century Ismaili poet-philosopher, Nasir-i Khusraw, is expressed in combination with mystical
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The Nature of Christian Doctrine: A Conversation with My Critics

open access: yesInternational 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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Qumran Prayer and Religious Poetry [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
null Nitzan, Jonathan Chapman
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Janet Malcolm's Self‐Portrait

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Jerome Boyd Maunsell
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Doctrine, Narrative and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Conversation with Alister McGrath

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers a critical and appreciative response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine, exploring the formation of doctrine as a dynamic communal process rooted in Scripture, liturgy and historical context. It highlights McGrath’s analogy between doctrinal development and scientific method, emphasising the search for a ...
Frances Margaret Young
wiley   +1 more source

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