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Apophasis and System. Dogmatic Theology in Apophatic Perspective

Verbum Vitae, 2023
The subject of the article is the nature of theological apophasis in relation to the systematic aspirations of theological reflection. This relationship is analyzed from the perspective of the three essential truths of Christianity that form the hard ...
Robert Woźniak
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The Nature and Destiny of Niebuhr’s Augustine

Modern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 89-113, January 2023., 2023
Abstract This essay poses a twofold question regarding the Augustine who influenced Niebuhr’s work: to which of the many versions of Augustine was Niebuhr drawn? What has happened to this Augustine across the reception of Niebuhr’s thought? As a first matter, I argue that Niebuhr was helped to resolve long‐standing questions not by Augustine the ...
Martin Westerholm
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“Whether my Body Breaks or the Plum Tree Withers”: Iwanaga Maki, Social Welfare Pioneer, and the jūjikai Women's Religious Order

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Maria Iwanaga Maki (1849–1920) was 23 years old in 1873 when she returned home after a community exile and persecutions of more than 3000 people carried out by the Meiji government. Historians in the public record refer to Iwanaga as otoko‐masari (man‐nish) when she stood up to a representative of the Shogun, while in her public work she became known ...
Gwyn McClelland
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Ulwaluko: A critical site for black theological reflection

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
Ulwaluko is an essential rite of passage for men in the Xhosa community in South Africa. This particular initiation rite of passage is a critical part of the transition from boyhood to manhood.
Ayanda Mdokwana
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Die NHKA op reis na inklusiwiteit II: ’n Holistiese teo-antropologie as voorwaarde vir ekklesiologie

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2011
The NRCA en route to inclusivity II: A holistic theological anthropology as condition for ecclesiology This second article further examines the hypothesis that the fragmentation in the ecclesiology of the Netherdutch Reformed Church (NRCA) is based on a
Tanya van Wyk, Johan Buitendag
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“With Delight and Desire”: Gender and Emotion in the Conversions of Japanese Women in Sixteenth‐Century Southern Japan

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines the interplay of gender, emotions, and material culture in Jesuit conversion accounts in sixteenth‐century Japan. I analyse the rhetorical strategies of missionaries like Luís Fróis to better understand how conversion narratives were crafted to advance the Jesuits' goal of propagating Christianity in Japan and beyond.
Jessica O'Leary
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Mother of Holiness: Phoebe Palmer's Maternal Grief, Silence, and Spiritual Leadership in her Spiritual Narrative

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article expands upon a central aspect of Holiness evangelist Phoebe Palmer's (1807–1874) theology, which has been only tangentially mentioned by scholars: her gendered identity of motherhood. It first considers how Palmer narrated the deaths of her first two sons in her spiritual narrative The Way of Holiness as divine punishment for her ...
Layla Koch
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Elite Status‐Seeking and Class Reproduction in Civil Society: An Analysis of Corporate Elite Appointments to Charity Boards

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between economic elites and civil society by analysing the appointments of corporate elites to the boards of charitable companies in the UK. Whilst previous research has usually focused on who among the corporate elite hold positions in key civil society organisations, and the extent to which these ...
Tom Mills, Narzanin Massoumi
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Kurt Gödel's reception of Charles Hartshorne's ontological proof [PDF]

E. Ramharter (ed.), The Vienna Circle and Religion. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook. Springer. (2021), 2021
In 1962 Charles Hartshorne published a modal logic proof formalizing Anselm of Canterbury's ontological argument for the necessary existence of God. This article presents Kurt G\"odel's notes on this proof which have now been discovered in his Nachlass among other theological material, and discusses possible influences on the development of G\"odel's ...
arxiv  

P vs NP Problem in the field anthropology [PDF]

arXiv, 2009
An attempt of a new kind of complexity anthropology is considered.
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