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Formlessness and Image

Ex Fonte
In The Life in Christ, Nicholas Cabasilas uses Paul’s language of “sealing” and “forming” to describe the sacraments of Baptism and Chrismation as means by which the sacramental recipient comes to participate in the life of Christ as a new creation ...
Reginald Lynch
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Interpreting Barth's Eschatology: An Eco‐Theological Reappraisal

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Critical eco‐theologians do not consider Karl Barth's theology of creation helpful in addressing the contemporary ecological crisis. In this article, I explore a way to interpret Barth's theology that could lead to a fruitful eco‐theological perspective.
Othniël de Jong
wiley   +1 more source

Putting the Dutch Reformed Church in Its Place

Ecclesial Futures
The Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) in South Africa faces challenges due to rapid demographic shifts that reduce the proportion of traditional Afrikaner members and threaten the financial viability of its ministries.
Dieter de Bruin
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Identifying Deification: Methodological Reflections in Response to the Oxford Handbook of Deification

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper offers a reflection on methodological issues surrounding the historical study of deification in response to the approach proposed in the Oxford Handbook of Deification. The paper contextualises the OHD's proposal in light of previous attempts to address the question of how to define/identify the concept of deification.
Brendan A. Harris
wiley   +1 more source

Biology and a Theology of Evolution

Zygon, 1999
The challenge and stimulus to theology that is constituted by the scientific version of Genesis which will prevail for the foreseeable future is expounded in relation to the significance of the succeeding stages of the life process and to the general ...
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Why Are Young Men Increasingly Drawn to Christianity? A Study of Finnish Young Men

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent surveys in the Global North suggest a possible reversal in established gender patterns of religiosity, with young men increasingly engaging with Christianity. This study examines this development in Finland, a highly secular country, drawing on qualitative individual and small‐group interviews with 30 men attracted to Christianity.
Kati Tervo‐Niemelä, Pietari Hannikainen   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Religio‐Racial Lines, Intimate Ties: Christian–Muslim Couples, Birth Rituals, and the Bounds of Belonging

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
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Inhabiting the White Church: Divinized Diversity and Antiracist Projects in Progressive Religious Organizations

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on 3 years of qualitative fieldwork at a United Methodist church and a Catholic parish in Minneapolis‐St. Paul, I analyze how White, liberal congregations translated race‐conscious ideals into organizational practice in the wake of the 2020 police murder of George Floyd.
Daniel Cueto‐Villalobos
wiley   +1 more source

The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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Introduction: Complex Situations

Journal of Moral Theology
The articles in the July 2024 issue of the _Journal of Moral Theology_ bring to the fore a series of anomalies for Catholic moral theology or, as one might call them, complex situations.
M. Therese Lysaught
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