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Snapshots from a Fast‐Moving Train: Religious History 1960–2025

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Alexandra Walsham
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Retrieving Your Concepts: Iris Murdoch on Original Sin

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract In The Sovereignty of Good, Iris Murdoch argues that our moral thinking will be impoverished until it possesses a secular conception of original sin. Such a notion would need to remove unacceptable Christian baggage while retaining a genuine claim to be a descendant of the original Christian concept.
Samuel Filby
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Pentecostal church growth in Nigeria amid Roman Catholicism

African Journal of Pentecostal Studies
Background: The Roman Catholic Church is believed to have the largest membership. However, the recent growth in Pentecostalism tends to show the strategies that have been adopted by Pentecostal churches in drawing members from the Roman Catholic Church ...
Favour C. Uroko
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Cathedral stimulus for the development of religious tolerance and interfaith dialogue

Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2013
The urgency of the chosen topic is due to the situation of multiculturalism and polyconfessionality of the modern world, in which the numerical superiority among the religious population belongs to the Roman Catholic Church, which has more than 1 billion
Iryna Vityuk
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A newly discovered Carolingian text: Candidus' Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti, written for Charlemagne

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
This article presents a newly discovered Latin text: a theological treatise titled Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti that was written by Alcuin’s friend Candidus (Wizo) at the request of Charlemagne. By discussing selected passages from the Heptateuch, Candidus seeks to demonstrate that Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, thus the whole Christian ...
Lukas J. Dorfbauer
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Honouring the Past, Embracing the Future

The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The United Church of Canada, founded in 1925, represents an ambitious experiment in church union that blends Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist traditions. Over the past century, the church has played a pivotal role in shaping Canadian society by advocating for social justice, Indigenous reconciliation, interreligious dialogue ...
Hyuk Cho
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Roman Catholic Church in the System of State-Confessional Relations in Volhynia (1944-1945).

Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2013
Understanding the historical retrospective of state-confessional relations becomes especially relevant in connection with socio-political changes of the XX - the beginning of the XXI centuries.
Iryna Bulyga
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Social Justice as a Catalyst for Ecumenical Engagement

The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article provides a comprehensive overview of the historical formation of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America (FCC), examining the social and political context in the United States that shaped its adoption of ecumenical practices focused on social justice.
Geneva Blackmer
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Ethnicity and Confession in Bukovina in the Sources from the Turn of the 18th century

Науковий вісник Чернівецького національного університету імені Юрія Федьковича. Історія, 2017
In the descriptions of Bukovуna as the new Habsburg province and in the records of the Roman Catholic Church various terms for ethnicity have functioned, sophisticatedly related to the religious denominations.
Melchior Jakubowski
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Roman Catholic Teaching on International Debt: Toward a New Methodology for Catholic Social Ethics and Moral Theology

Journal of Moral Theology, 2015
The contribution of the Roman Catholic Church to global action on debt relief for the poorest of the poor remains an unheralded accomplishment. Largely unknown in U.S.
M. Therese Lysaught
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