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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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Public Theology in the face of pain and suffering: A proletarian perspective [PDF]
, 2015 A basic understanding of theology is the quest for knowledge of the Divine—the study of God. But why, one may ask, undertake such an endeavour, and to what end? My simple response would be, to know God is to enhance and enrich my life and service.
Juma, Florence
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The King's Evil Without the King: The Royal Touch during the Interregnum
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article examines how far, and in what ways, the traditional belief that English monarchs could cure scrofula (the “King's Evil”) by royal touch survived during the eleven years of the Interregnum (1649–1660). Charles I had been executed and the monarchy abolished, and Charles II was in exile for the vast majority of this period. It might seem that
David L. Smith
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Theologie der Krise und Krise Gottes
Communio ViatorumThe present time can be characterized as an era of multiple crises (polycrisis). This article outlines the basic features of a theology of crisis. In contrast to the conventional crisis rhetoric, a theology of crisis seeks a distinctly theological ...
Ulrich H. J. Körtner
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This essay examines the role of sound in accounts of Methodism in England during the era of the French Revolution. Drawing on religious writings and political tracts, it explores how the conflict between loyalism and radicalism in the 1790s shaped perceptions of the sonic aspects of Methodist piety among both supporters and opponents of the movement ...
Peter Denney
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Black theology in South Africa – A theology of human dignity and black identity
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016 Black theology in South Africa is still relevant 20 years after the apartheid regime ended. It is a theology that gave to Black South Africans human dignity and a black identity.
Timothy van Aarde
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Introduction to the Essays of the Consultation on Preaching and Postcolonial Theology [PDF]
, 2015 The essays that follow were first presented as part of a consultation on preaching and postcolonial theology at Boston University in October, 2014, sponsored by the BU Center for Practical Theology. The consultation was an opportunity to bring together a
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
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Liberation or Inculturation – convergent or divergent trends of African Theology?
Praktyka Teoretyczna, 2013 With the shift of the centres of Christianity towards the South it hasbeen increasingly noticeable that talking about Christian theology characterized bya geographical adjectives different from “European /Western” becomes acceptable.However, Christianity
Stanisław Grodź
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The Emmanuel Hirsch and Paul Tillich Debate: A Study in the Political Ramifications of Theology [PDF]
, 1992 Reviewed Book: Reimer, A James. The Emmanuel Hirsch and Paul Tillich Debate: A Study in the Political Ramifications of Theology. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1989.
Muller, Richard A.
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