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Duplicitous Remembrance: Confessing Self‐Deception with Augustine

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract While self‐deception has long been a topic of interest in psychology and analytic philosophy—and increasingly in the academic study of theology and religion—direct engagement with Augustine on self‐deception remains underexplored in contemporary scholarship.
Abraham S‐C Wu
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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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Christian Humanism in the Black Atlantic: The Case of Olaudah Equiano

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores Olaudah Equiano as a pivotal figure in the emergence of a Christian humanism forged within the Black Atlantic. Building on the analyses of Sylvia Wynter and Paul Gilroy, it examines how Equiano's The Interesting Narrative contests the racial figuration of the human that underwrote the development of racial capitalism and ...
Luke Bretherton
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The Reverb of Divine Revelation: Theological Poetics in John of the Cross

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the theological poetics of John of the Cross, investigating both the conditions under which contemplative experience gives rise to speech and the theological status of that speech within John's account of divine revelation.
Michael C. Costas
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Sacramental Spirituality for Free Churches? Pilgram Marpeck Considered

Kairos (English Ed.), 2011
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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This (Mortal) Christian Life: Growth in Grace and the Problem of Senescence

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Theological accounts of the Christian life attempt to describe the manner in which the Holy Spirit's communication of Christ's redemptive work engenders new ways of being in the world. Such descriptions normally entail, in one form or another, the conclusion that the Christian life is marked by progressive growth in grace, an upward spiral in ...
Daniel Lee Hill
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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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Noah's Raven, Noah's Son: The Metamorphoses of Blackness in Early Modern Readings of Genesis 8‐9

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past half‐century, scholars have offered various theories to explain when and how an aetiology for black skin became part of the reception history of the so‐called Curse of Ham in Genesis 9—a text that does not include any reference to skin colour.
Ashleigh Elser
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Performing Papal Supremacy: Niccolò Cieco's Capitoli for Martin V and Eugenius IV

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses two poems performed by the blind oral poet (or canterino) Niccolò Cieco of Arezzo for the first two popes elected after the Great Schism, Martin V and Eugenius IV. It argues that Niccolò's characterisation of the papal office must be understood in relation to both medieval canon law and contemporary ecclesiological ...
Isaac Figliuoli
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Theology as a Sacrament of Hope

Lumen et Vita, 2015
In his exegesis of the Transfiguration, Thomas Aquinas says that the vision of divine glory was given to Peter, James, and John in order to prepare them for Christ’s imminent Passion and Resurrection (Cf. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae III, Q.45). The brilliance of Christ’s face shining like the sun (cf. Mt.
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