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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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Are Religious Experiences Immediate Revelations? A Study of Pentecostal Hermeneutics

Verbum et Ecclesia
Religious encounters are essential to every religious tradition in which the worshipper encounters the divine. Although religious experiences have been reported in many religious traditions, they occupy a premium place in Pentecostalism.
Aku S. Antombikums
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Alcuni elementi della formazione sacerdotale nei discorsi e scritti quaresimali di beato Paolo VI

Seminare, 2022
Priestly formation was always an important issue for Paul VI, therefore, being the head of both Milan and Universal Church, he annually addressed his paternal words to the priests during the Lenten time.
Janusz Bartczak
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Enduring After God: An Anatheistic Reframing of Augustine on Suicide

The Heythrop Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper proposes a retrieval of Augustine's argument on suicide in De Civitate Dei I.17–27, rearticulating its ethical core for a post‐theistic age through the hermeneutic lens of Richard Kearney's anatheism. Confronting the dual reality of persistent suicide and declining religiosity, I argue that Augustine's pastoral case against ending ...
Kornelius Lumbanbatu
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Priestly Christology and Holiness: Christ’s Priesthood and the Sanctification of Believers

Religions
This article attempts to provide a systematic account of Christ’s priesthood and the sanctification of believers. Approaching Scripture from a systematic perspective, the study focuses on the Epistle to the Hebrews, which is the only document in the NT ...
Adriani Milli Rodrigues
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Conceptualising holiness in the Gospel of John: The en route to and character of holiness (Part 2)

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017
In a previous publication, this author investigated the code as well as the objectives of holiness in the Gospel of John. This research deals with the en route to and character of holiness. The research starts with a concise characterisation of Jesus for
Dirk van der Merwe
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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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Anabaptist discipleship : progressive sanctification and the role of community [PDF]

, 2021
MTh (Dogmatics), North-West University, Potchefstroom CampusThis thesis examines whether Christian discipleship, as conceived by Anabaptists, can be understood in connection with a doctrine of sanctification.
Kim, Hyoungjin
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Rethinking Merit in Calvin's Doctrine of the Atonement: Beyond Possessive Individualism

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Joan Lockwood O'Donovan argues that the Reformation doctrine of grace entails a rejection of the proprietary anthropology of self‐owning individuals and its attendant notion of justice – what C. B. Macpherson termed the “theory of possessive individualism.” Although O'Donovan praises Calvin's anthropology and his account of law for its non ...
John Walker
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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
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