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Sirens Chanting in Auvergne-Velay: A Story of Exegetical Pilgrimage on the "Via Podiensis"

Ad Limina, 2013
Migrating from Greek mythology to scripture and ecclesiastical writing, sirens are best known for the perils they put on the road of Odysseus, and conversely, on that of the crucified Christ and on that of the pilgrim, two significations that Odysseus ...
Avital Heyman
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God and Philosophy of Time

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
What Christians call ‘creation’ is fundamentally, inescapably, and entirely temporal. Humans, too, are temporal beings. As such, understanding the nature of time has been a philosophical pursuit since the pre-Socratic philosophers.
Emily Qureshi-Hurst
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Immanent and Economic Trinity

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
The immanent and the economic Trinity refer to the distinction and relation of the Trinity in its immanent and economic aspects. This is a central concern of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity. This article explores (1) the development of the concepts
Mark P. Hertenstein
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SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND ETHICS: A RESPONSE TO MICHAEL J. REISS

Zygon, 2019
The respondent agrees with Michael Reiss's general diagnosis of the rudderless state of ethics in our modern society, but not with all of his account of its causes or possible solutions.
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An attempt to identify intertextual connections with the Holy Scripture in the spiritual lyrics of V.D. Fedorov

Неофилология
INTRODUCTION. The article examines the intertextual connections of the spiritual poetry of Vasily Dmitrievich Fedorov, with an emphasis on his poem “Parable” with fragments of the Holy Scriptures of the New and Old Testaments. The purpose of the study is
N. N. Kireev
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Māori Before English: Religious Education in Aotearoa NZ Ko tōku reo tōku ohooho, ko tōku reo tōku māpihi maurea—My Language Is My Awakening, My Language Is the Window to My Soul

Religions
In 2021, the National Centre for Religious Studies in New Zealand published the new religious education curriculum for Catholic schools in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Margaret Carswell, Colin MacLeod, Laurel Lanner   +2 more
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“Setting the Bible out of the Question”—Pursuing Justice: The (Non) Use of Scripture in John Wesley’s Antislavery Argument and Its Relevance for the Contemporary Pursuit of Justice

Religions
One of the core sources for Christian justification or critique of social justice matters is the Bible. One would think that a leading historic Christian figure, like John Wesley, whose theology was closely bound to biblical interpretation, would have ...
David Nugent Field, Wessel Bentley
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Jewish Ethics

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
Before modern times, there was no systematic account of Jewish ethics. This can be attributed to the fact that Jewish tradition never considered ethics an autonomous subject matter or mode of inquiry.
Eugene Korn
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On the Interpretation of Scripture

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University
This article focuses on examining a particular method of Biblical Interpretation. This specific method is that of the Patristic Method of Biblical Interpretation, proposed by Richard Swinburne. The Patristic Method faces a specific issue, ‘the Authority’
Sijuwade Joshua
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Law in the Old Testament

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
In the Bible, legal discourse is often employed for theological purposes. It contributes to the search for an ordered life in the presence of God. While many factors are involved in such a quest, this essay focuses on four primary concepts: divine ...
William S. Morrow
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