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Understanding the Relationship of Humanity to God and to Creation Through God's Love: Tuomo Mannermaa's New Interpretation of Martin Luther's View of the Two Kinds of Love

Dialog, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on Luther's twenty‐eighth thesis in the Heidelberg Disputation, which contrasts God's love and human love, Tuomo Mannermaa offers a detailed analysis of the theme of love in Luther's theology, highlighting its paradoxical character. According to Mannermaa's interpretation, Luther insists that God's love and human love move in opposite ...
Ying Yang, Paulos Z. Z. Huang
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The integration of the pre-Qin Confucian concept of righteousness and profit into primary education theory

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The current moral education component in primary schools faces significant challenges. Many elementary students’ everyday behavior appears excessively self-centered and pragmatic, potentially negatively impacting their future growth and character ...
Da Deng, Chunshan Deng
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Learning with a Warmer World: Climate Change Education for Forms of Life*

Educational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract Climate change poses a threat to young people's capacity to flourish both now and in the future. In response, Aristotelian Climate Change Education (CCE) aims to cultivate radicalized climate virtues in students and give them structured opportunities to contemplate Socrates's question—“How should one live?”—amidst conditions of unprecedented ...
Melissa Diamond, Tomas Rocha
wiley   +1 more source

Another Look at the Prophecy of Habakkuk in the Light of Christian Spirituality [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology
Issues of faith and theodicy which hinges on why the wicked prosper over the righteous dominate Habakkuk's theology and spirituality (Habakkuk 2:1-4). This includes, his expression of faith experience in relation to God, self and others. Habakkuk laments,
Prof. Michael Ufok Udoekpo, Rev. Dr. Alexander G. K. Salakpi, Rev. Dr. Celestine Chibueze Uzondu, Rev. Dr. Michael Kodzo Mensah, Sr. Prof. Mary Sylvia Nwachukwu DDL Godfrey   +4 more
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Social Justice as a Catalyst for Ecumenical Engagement

The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article provides a comprehensive overview of the historical formation of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America (FCC), examining the social and political context in the United States that shaped its adoption of ecumenical practices focused on social justice.
Geneva Blackmer
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Government Financial Reporting: A Study of Nested Controversy

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There are two schools of thought on government financial reporting: one emanating from societal values and accountability to citizens; and one based on investment decisions and a business approach. There are staunch proponents of these different perspectives, which are rooted in economic thought and values.
Sheila Ellwood, Rhoda Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Tao, Virtue, Benevolence, Righteousness and Propriety:On the Core Values of Shu School

Contemporary Social Sciences, 2017
The core concepts of Confucianism were developed over the change of the times by Confucian scholars after Zi Si and Mencius, and have formed their respective structures: The three great principles of "benevolence, wisdom and bravery," and the self ...
Shu Dagang, Shen Shengchao
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Doctrine, Narrative and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Conversation with Alister McGrath

International 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
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Eros as the Meeting of Ecstasies in Christ: The Eucharistic Link between Divine and Human Love in Dionysius the Areopagite

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Dionysius's vision of eros as a meeting of reciprocal ecstasies – where lover and beloved each pass out of themselves and into the other – has often been read as unifying dimensions of love otherwise thought to stand in tension, such as giving and receiving.
Noah Karger
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Understanding the ‘identity of the righteous’ in the Sermon on the Mount

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The Sermon on the Mount is a collection of Jesus’s teachings recorded in Matthew 5–7. It was addressed to the disciples and a large crowd of listeners on a mountainside near Capernaum.
Elma M. Cornelius
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