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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
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Sacramental Spirituality for Free Churches? Pilgram Marpeck Considered
In light of the currently resurgent search for spiritual wisdom within both ecclesial and secular societies, this article proposes a rethinking of the often marginal role of sacramental theology in contemporary free-church traditions.
Daniel Napier
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Introduction: Complex Situations
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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Reading Nietzsche in an Age of Conspiracy Theories
Abstract This essay considers Friedrich Nietzsche's critique of Christian morality as a template for interpreting the epistemology of modern conspiracy theorists. The first section elucidates Nietzsche's notion of ressentiment as it can be applied to contemporary conspiracism. The effectiveness of this comparative assessment thus raises the question of
J.W. Olson
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What reasons and resources can Christian theology find for developing a panentheist position that is also able to engage with contemporary science?
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This article proposes a re-examination of the institution of marriage in light of the eschatology of the Eastern Church and the theological discourse on the topic developed by three thinkers of the Reformed tradition, namely Kierkegaard, Barth, and ...
John Panteleimon Manoussakis
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Abstract This essay advocates renewed attention toward Jungian literary criticism, emphasizing its unique and creative perspectives on both fictional worlds and on reading. A fresh turn to Jungian criticism offers, in particular, valuable insight for texts on the peripheries of the canon.
Edsel Parke
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse
ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
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