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A source of reflection on Christian witness and mission under the action of the Holy Spirit [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
The article studies the relationship which binds together the sacrament of Confirmation with the other two sacraments of initiation, namely Baptism and Eucharist.
Scerri, Hector
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Reading Nietzsche in an Age of Conspiracy Theories

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

La contagion des péchés (xie-xiiie siècle). Aux origines canoniques du biopouvoir

open access: yesTracés, 2011
In the latin and christian world, we find the first regular uses of the words contagium and contagio in the doctrinal and normative literature which severly condamns the heretic groups.
Arnaud Fossier
doaj   +1 more source

Sacramental Exchange: Eschatological Economy and Consumption Ritual

open access: yesReligions, 2020
Contemporary sacramental theology construes the sacraments as a symbolic gift exchange between God and humanity; God initiates in the ministry of Jesus Christ, and human beings acknowledge and respond to God’s gift.
Kimberly Belcher
doaj   +1 more source

2. The Means of Grace

open access: yes, 1958
Central to the medieval Church and the ultimate source of its power, both spiritual and temporal, was its possession of the sacraments. The sacraments were based on the belief that what man could not do for himself God could and would do for him ...
Bloom, Robert L.   +6 more
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Ecclesiology and Ministry as Reflected in Contemporary Ordination Rites [PDF]

open access: yes, 1982
(Excerpt) The ministry is a problem and the doctrine of the ministry has been, for Lutheran theology, an insoluble problem. Perhaps the root of the problem is more ecclesiastical than ecclesiological.
Quere, Ralph W
core   +1 more source

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

open access: yesModern 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
wiley   +1 more source

THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
wiley   +1 more source

Confirmation: Origins and Reform [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
Reviewed Book: Kavanagh, Aidan. Confirmation: Origins and Reform.
Nevile, Donald C.
core   +1 more source

Jungian categories as modes of reading: The case of Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter and Aldous Huxley's Time Must Have a Stop

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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