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Lost in Communication? Beyond the Aporia of Kenosis

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Contemporary kenoticist Christologies reach an impasse when they conflate metaphorical and analogical predication. Interpreting divine “self‐emptying” in analogical terms—as divine self‐divestment—generates ethical concerns as well as philosophical, exegetical, and doctrinal difficulties.
Ligita Ryliškytė SJE
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The Doctrine of the Imago Dei in the Soteriology of Julian of Norwich [PDF]

, 2008
The soteriology of the English 14th century mystic Julian of Norwich moves in the direction of a hope for universal salvation. The ground for this hope is established through Julian’s appropriation of the doctrine of the soul’s creation in the image of ...
Wiens, Ryan Kade
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Chosen by God: Providential Suffering and Divine Writing in the Morisco Diaspora

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay reconsiders the anonymous sonnet ‘Y Dios, que a los suyos padeciendo mira’ preserved in the Prologue of MS 11/9394 S‐2 (Biblioteca de la Real Academia de la Historia), a Morisco codex produced near Tunis between 1630 and 1650. As a key yet subtle rhetorical hinge in the text's Prologue, the sonnet establishes MS 11/9394 S‐2 within ...
Andrea Pauw
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The Converso Diaspora and Iberian Empires

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Whereas there is no consensus among contemporary scholars in defining the Converso diaspora and its criteria of belonging, most of them highlighted its geographical, economic, cultural and political dependence on early modern Iberian empires.
Claude B. Stuczynski
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Servant leadership and power

Scandinavian Journal for Leadership & Theology, 2019
This is an explorative study of the relationship between power and servant leadership from a theological perspective. It is argued that Robert K.
Karl Inge Tangen
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The keys to the garden: Capital, class, and the repurposing of Persian mystical poetry in Los Angeles

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.
Abstract This article traces the social life of medieval Persian poetry as it is repurposed within Los Angeles's Iranian diaspora. Based on 5 years of immersive ethnography in private erfān classes and mystical assemblies, I argue these gatherings function as contemporary diasporic courts, mobilizing core texts within a spiritual marketplace structured
Zia Khoshsirat
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The Development of Augustine's Early Soteriology

, 2018
Thesis advisor: Boyd CoolmanThis study considers the development of Augustine's early soteriology in the years leading up to and including his writing of Confessions. Central to that inquiry is a treatment of his increasing use of the term humilitas. Yet
Monroe, Ty Paul
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Reconstructing Evangelical Soteriology and Missiology: A Theology of Human Flourishing

Religions
Contemporary Evangelicalism faces a paradox: despite its historical and demographic vitality, a soteriological imbalance in many (though by no means all) of its expressions—an overemphasis on afterlife-centred salvation relative to present flourishing ...
Aristo Purboadji
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‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London

Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 807-817, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
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Aspects of Arminian Soteriology in Methodist-Lutheran Ecumenical Dialogues in 20th and 21st Century [PDF]

, 2009
The aim of this thesis is to analyse the key ecumenical dialogues between Methodists and Lutherans from the perspective of Arminian soteriology and Methodist theology in general.
Satama, Mikko
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