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Climatologists, Theologians, and Prophets: Toward an Ecotheology of Critical Hope

, 2016
As people of faith begin to recognize in larger numbers that our relationship with creation is one of the most important challenges facing us today, I find myself pondering what we have to offer the environmental movement.
Bock, Cherice
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Contextualising Mental Privacy in South Africa: Legal, Ethical, and Socio‐Cultural Considerations With Policy Recommendations

Developing World Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mental privacy is a growing concern as neurotechnologies and digital mental health tools collect and process sensitive brain‐related data. In South Africa, cultural and religious diversity adds complexity to protecting mental privacy, with traditional healing practices, communal decision‐making, and spiritual beliefs influencing mental health ...
Marietjie Botes, Melodie Labuschaigne, Camille Casteleyn, Becky Inkster, Mark Sheppard   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resurrecting Tradition

Black Theology Papers Project
This paper reviews Kelly Brown Douglas’s Resurrecting Hope and brings it into conversation with certain themes in Catholic theology and with the theory of the scapegoat mechanism articulated by the French intellectual, René Girard.
Grant Kaplan
doaj   +1 more source

Quakers and Creation Care: Potentials and Pitfalls for an Ecotheology of Friends (Chapter Five in Quakers, Creation Care, and Sustainability)

, 2019
While Friends have a strong tradition of activism around the social justice issues of each era, we also tend to spiritualize our faith, disconnecting it from the material world. Environmental concerns are arguably one of the most important social justice
Bock, Cherice
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Liberation Theology and Its Critics: Toward an Assessment [PDF]

, 1991
Reviewed Book: McGovern, Arthur F. Liberation Theology and Its Critics: Toward an Assessment.
Cole-Arnal, Oscar
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The Ethics of Authoritarianism in Christian Perspective

Dialog, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We look here at the characteristics of authoritarian government in the context of constitutional democracies and argue that its operative ethical system in public policy is egoism, with its supporters constituting a collective ego complicit in the undemocratic and Machiavellian practices used to sustain power and the authority of leadership to
James M. Childs
wiley   +1 more source

Responding to a Crisis of Hope: Gregory of Nyssa in Dialogue with Contemporary Psychology

Religions
This paper explores the potential of patristic theology to offer therapeutic resources for evangelical Christians who experience a crisis of hope: affirming hope doctrinally while struggling to feel hopeful in daily life.
Leisa Aitken, Ben Myers
doaj   +1 more source

Contextualization: no passing fad [PDF]

, 1982
Originally prepared for an international conference on the churches and China attended by Chinese patriotic Christians, this paper focuses on the processes of indigenization and contextualization.
Hutchinson, Roger C.
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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
wiley   +1 more source

Public Theology as a Theology of Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Public Pastoral Care Contribution

Religions
The negative impacts of COVID-19, the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, political unrest, and natural disasters in sub-Saharan Africa have caused widespread suffering.
Patrick Nanthambwe
doaj   +1 more source