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Journal articles on the topic "Christianity - Theology - Christology"
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Ogunlana, Babatunde, and Benjamin I. Akano. "Christology in Contemporary African Christianity: Ontological or Functional?" European Journal of Theology and Philosophy 2, no. 4 (July 31, 2022): 13–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.24018/theology.2022.2.4.71.
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This article examines the practical nature of Christology in contemporary African Christianity. The writers argue that though the religious mindset of the African people does not allow a dichotomy between ontological and functional Christologies, existential challenges have made many Africans tilt towards the functional end. The method adopted in the article is a descriptive approach. Christology is central to the orthodox Christian faith. It permeates all the pages of the Bible. The Old Testament consistently predicts the coming of the Messiah. The New Testament writers focused on Him in the light of His work on earth and the office he came to occupy concerning the Messianic predictions of the Old Testament. In history, the focus of theology has always been on the person and work of Christ. Contemporary African Christianity is not an exception to this trend. Many controversies have emerged in the process of the discussion on Christology. These Christological controversies surround the Person, picture, and deeds of Christ. A tilt towards functional Christology may cause a down-playing of God’s sovereign will to focus on what works. This may lead to syncretic beliefs and practices as people look for what gives a solution. The conclusion is that African Christology should blend ontology and functionality. The Christology that is both contextually relevant and scripturally balanced should be presented to the African people. Therefore, African theologians should make efforts to prepare theology that reflect a balanced Christological presentation intentionally.
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Ngong, David T. "Theology as the Construction of Piety: A Critique of the Theology of Inculturation and the Pentecostalization of African Christianity." Journal of Pentecostal Theology 21, no. 2 (2012): 344–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17455251-02102010.
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This essay argues that an important task of theology is the construction of piety. It draws from a few critical moments in the development of Christianity, such as the development of the doctrine of God and Christology in the early church and the rejection of materialistic Christianity in early modern Europe, to argue that these moments reflect the theological struggle to shape Christian piety. The idea that theology is concerned with the shaping of piety is then used to evaluate African theology of inculturation, which has now flowered in the Pentecostalization of African Christianity. It argues that although the theology of inculturation may be helpful in constructing a viable African theology, uncritically embracing the spiritualized cosmology of African traditional societies in salvific discourses promotes a form of piety that is ill-equipped to overcome the marginalization of the continent in the modern world.
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HEISER, MICHAEL S. "Co-regency in Ancient Israel’s Divine Council as the Conceptual Backdrop to Ancient Jewish Binitarian Monotheism." Bulletin for Biblical Research 26, no. 2 (January 1, 2016): 195–225. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/26371649.
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Abstract Scholars have long wondered what theological and hermeneutical trajectories allowed committed monotheistic Jews to embrace Christianity’s high Christology. How exactly could devoted followers of Yhwh convert to Christianity and still consider themselves innocent of the charge of worshiping another deity? Alan Segal’s seminal work on the “two powers in heaven” doctrine of ancient Judaism demonstrated that Judaism allowed a second deity figure identified with, but distinct from, Yhwh prior to the rise of Christianity. But Segal never succeeded in articulating the roots of this theology in the Hebrew Bible. This essay seeks to bridge this gap by proposing a Godhead framework put forth by the biblical writers in adaptation of the earlier Canaanite (Ugaritic) divine council involving a co-regency of El and Baʿal. The essay suggests that Judaism’s two powers theology had its roots in an ancient Israelite co-regency notion whereby Yhwh and a second, visible Yhwh figure occupied both roles of the co-regency in the biblical writers’ conception of the divine council.
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Hwan Ra, Young. "Christ in Popular Culture in Korea." Journal of Reformed Theology 1, no. 1 (2007): 72–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156973107x182640.
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the way in which the Korean church developed a popular image of Jesus Christ in her own context. Many scholars often refer to Minjung theology in order to find the Korean understanding of Jesus Christ. Yet, if one seeks to understand Korean Christology only through Minjung theology, he or she will not be able to grasp its whole nature. The evangelicals have also developed their own Christology that is rooted in a particular Korean context. As will be discussed in this paper, there are four popular images of Christ in Korean Christianity. These are: Christ as the Gift, the Reconciler, the Transformer, and the Liberator.
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Langhammer, Pavel. "Kritika Harnackovy historické metodologie v díle Podstata křesťanství z pohledu současné biblistiky." TEOLOGICKÁ REFLEXE 28, no. 2 (December 13, 2022): 194–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/27880796.2022.2.5.
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A Critique of Harnack's Historical Methodology in his ‘What is Christianity?’ from a Perspective of Contemporary Biblical Sciences. Adolf von Harnack was a prominent representative of the so-called Liberal theology, and his 120 years old collection of lectures ‘What is Christianity?’ used to be very influential at the beginning of the 20th century. In these lectures, Harnack wants to use a purely historical method to uncover the essence of Christianity. However, his approach seems to neglect not only specific sources, like the Fourth Gospel, but also certain theological concepts, like Christology. After a brief introduction to Harnack himself and his influences, this study critically surveys the collection of lectures focusing on his methodological approach, sources used, and his refusal of Christology. It also shows how certain decisions Harnack makes during his course through the history of Christianity affected the results he yields. Finally, this study critiques his historical methodology and offers different approaches of contemporary that render Harnack’s methodology obsolete.
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Seo, Anna. "Xu Guangqi’s Thought On Supplementing Confucianism With Christianity." Lingua Cultura 6, no. 1 (May 31, 2012): 108. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/lc.v6i1.398.
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Xu Guangqi is one of the most influential Chinese scholars who accepted Christian faith during the late Ming dynasty. His idea of “supplementing Confucianism and replacing Buddhism by Christianity” had great impact on the development of Christianity in China. His idea, however, has often been accused of syncretism, and genuineness of his Christian faith has been put into question. Some argue that his theology lacks Christology. Others suggest that his ultimate goal was to achieve the Confucian political ideals through adopting some of the Christian moral teachings. Through the analysis of Xu Guangqi’ works and life, we find that he accepted all the essential Christian doctrines and Christology is the core of his understanding of “Tianzhu”. His view on Confucianism itself istransformed through Christian perspective. In his new understanding, the ultimate goal of Confucianism is to serve and to worship “Tianzhu”，same as Christianity. The ultimate problem of life is to save one’s soul.Xu Guangqi considered his scientific works as a way to propagate Christian faith,since science was seen as an integral part of Christian thought and practice. His idea of “supplementing Confucianism by Christianity” integrated Confucianism into the overarching framework of Christian thought.
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Xu, Ximian. "The Sage of Sages: T. C. Chao's Christology in Yesu Zhuan." Studies in World Christianity 23, no. 2 (August 2017): 162–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/swc.2017.0182.
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T. C. Chao (Zhao Zichen, 1888–1979) was a leading Chinese theologian of the twentieth century. His Yesu Zhuan is a well-known book in China and accepted by many Chinese people as a way to know who Jesus is. Given this, this article will examine Chao's Christology in Yesu Zhuan. It will first introduce the historical context of Yesu Zhuan, including national crisis, cultural crisis and anti-Christian movements. Then, Chao's purpose and the methodology of writing Yesu Zhuan will be elaborated, which will be followed by a theological appraisal of Chao's methodology and Christology in Yesu Zhuan. By so doing, the article will demonstrate that under the influence of Western liberal theology and with the effort to indigenise Christianity in China, Chao actually portrays a ‘Jesus’ who is the most prominent Sage, the Sage of sages. That means he delineates a possible way in which Christian faith may be understood in Chinese culture. However, the ‘Jesus’ in Yesu Zhuan is a mere human being without divine nature. In the end, the Christology in Yesu Zhuan diametrically contradicts Chalcedonian Christology.
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Sokolovsky, Oleh. "CHRISTOLOGICAL IDEAS IN LIBERAL-PROTESTANT THEOLOGY." Sophia. Human and Religious Studies Bulletin 13, no. 1 (2019): 50–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/sophia.2019.13.12.
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The article deals with the Christological problems of liberal theology, which is determined by the idea of unity of the divine and human origin; recognition of religion as a constituent part of culture; granting the prerogative of the historical method in theology over dogmatic. It was established that in recent times, representatives of the liberal Protestant school of exegesis modernized Christology, paying due attention to the terminology apparatus and the presentation of the New Testament plots on an easy to perceive language. A characteristic feature of modern Christology was the reproduction of the image of Christ as a religious teacher and the removal of supernatural elements from it. These ideas, in the form of theological modernism, were condemned by the Roman Catholic Church, but in the context of Protestantism they long existed in the ideology of religious liberalism. In this regard, liberalization in Christology manifests itself in the subjective reflection of the person of Jesus Christ and his activities, built on the experience of the researcher. The mind in this sense should be open to critical perception of information. Liberal theologians denied the doctrines of the Christian church, the content of which was not subject to scientific substantiation, in particular the embodiment of Christ, the Resurrection, the Ascension, the second coming. However, the correlation of religious faith with the latest scientific achievements, for many theologians, created a kind of challenge to adjust the centuries-old Christian tradition with the advent of time. Protestant theology allows you to adapt to the demands of the present, to introduce new tactics and strategies for its development. Having determined the Christological object of Divine worship as a mentor of morality, liberal theology generated modernist concepts that enhanced the morality of Christianity and formed the image of historical Christ. This position has become dominant in the Christological concepts of the representatives of the Tübingen Protestant School, the theology of mediation and new orthodoxy, and to a large extent reflected on the doctrinal basis of modern models of Christology in Christian theology. Given the bias of representatives of liberal theology in covering key aspects of the Christological doctrine of Jesus Christ, the followers of Protestantism launched a separate line of research, called the theology of mediation. The main task of this movement was to reconcile the ideological paradigm between Christian faith and scientific knowledge.
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Farris, Joshua R., and Ryan A. Brandt. "Ensouling the Beatific Vision. Motivating the Reformed Impulse." Perichoresis 15, no. 1 (May 1, 2017): 67–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/perc-2017-0004.
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Abstract The beatific vision is a subject of considerable importance both in the Christian Scriptures and in the history of Christian dogmatics. In it, humans experience and see the perfect immaterial God, which represents the final end for the saints. However, this doctrine has received less attention in the contemporary theological literature, arguably, due in part to the growing trend toward materialism and the sole emphasis on bodily resurrection in Reformed eschatology. As a piece of retrieval by drawing from the Scriptures, Medieval Christianity, and Reformed Christianity, we motivate a case for the Reformed emphasis on the immaterial and intellectual aspects of human personal eschatology and offer some constructive thoughts on how to link it to the contemporary emphasis of the body. We draw a link between the soul and the body in the vision with the help of Christology as reflected in the theology of John Calvin, and, to a greater extent, the theology of both John Owen and Jonathan Edwards.
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Stinton, Diane B. "Encountering Jesus at the well: Further reflections on African women’s Christologies." Journal of Reformed Theology 7, no. 3 (2013): 267–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15697312-12341309.
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Abstract Under the subtheme of “Christology in the Context of World Christianity,” this article explores recent developments in African women’s Christologies. The aim is twofold: first, to engage critically with the content of these current Christologies, and second, to consider one method for doing contextual theology, namely, the “pastoral circle” or “pastoral cycle.” Its four key dimensions of encounter/insertion, social analysis, theological reflection, and pastoral planning allow a flexible framework for probing the causative factors, the contextual nature, the theological methods, and the central motifs of African women’s Christologies, as well as their contributions to social transformation through the impact of individuals and institutions. The article concludes that interdisciplinary approaches like the pastoral circle, which advocate the integration of biblical, historical, theological and contextual perspectives, hold the greatest potential for constructive Christology today.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Christianity - Theology - Christology"
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Abraham, Shaibu. "Ordinary Indian Pentecostal Christology." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1717/.
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This thesis is an investigation into the nature of Christology among ordinary Pentecostals in India. Pentecostalism is growing rapidly among Tribal-groups, Dalits, lower castes and ordinary people. However, the movement has not articulated its theological identity in order to consolidate and further its development. Therefore, this study aims to analyse the ordinary Christology using qualitative research methods such as interviews, focus groups, and participant observation. It is argued that their Christological understandings have been formed and expressed in challenging circumstances and given extraordinary energy through Pentecostal phenomena associated with revivalism. Ordinary Indian Pentecostals understand Jesus as the healer, exorcist, provider and protector in the context of poor health-care, a spirit worldview, extreme poverty, caste-system and religious persecution. Their Christian experience enables them to acknowledge Jesus as the Saviour, Lord and supreme God. These Christological themes are consonant with the larger Pentecostal tradition, theology and indeed the New Testament testimony. The argument critically engages with scholarship in Pentecostalism and the broader Christian tradition to propose a modification of these Christological categories.
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Ndungu, James N. "An evaluation of John S. Mbiti's Christology." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Ezigbo, Victor I. "Contextualizing the Christ-event : a Christological study of the interpretations and appropriations of Jesus Christ in Nigerian Christianity." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/2586.
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In Nigerian Christianity, many theologians and Christians who do not have any formal theological training perceive Jesus Christ primarily as a solution to the problems that confront humanity. As a solution, they expect Jesus Christ to inspire some theological discourses that will deconstruct and overthrow Western theological hegemony, to rekindle the quest to preserve some indigenous traditions, to liberate the oppressed, poor and powerless, to expose the oppressors and all evildoers, to liberate and protect people from the attacks of the malevolent spirits, and to save people from being eternally separated from God. But what these solution-oriented Christologies have overlooked is that the Christ-Event is a paradox for it creates simultaneously a problem and a solution for the Christian community which confesses that God has revealed God’s self in this event. The contextual Christology that I develop in this study probes the theological, christological and anthropological consequences of this claim for interpreting and appropriating Jesus Christ in the Nigerian contexts. To achieve this task, I will converse with and critique some selected ‘constructive Christologies’ of some key theologians and some ‘grassroots Christologies’ that have been informed by social conditions, indigenous worldview, encounter with some versions of Christianity propagated by the West, and some existential issues that confront many Christians. However we choose to interpret and appropriate Jesus the Christ in our contexts, he remains simultaneously a question and an answer to the theological, cultural, religious, anthropological, political and socio-economic issues that challenge us. Viewed from this perspective, I will argue that the Christ-Event upsets, unsettles, critiques, and reshapes the solution-oriented Christologies of Nigerian Christianity. I will explore this claim within the circumference of the overarching thesis of this study; namely, as both a question and an answer, Jesus Christ confronts us as a ‘revealer’ of divinity and humanity. Thus, he mediates and interprets divinity and humanity for the purpose of enacting and sustaining a relationship between God and human beings.
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Hurtuk, Joseph C. "The theocentric model of Christology in the pluralist theology of Paul F. Knitter." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.
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Dankers, Paul. "The two natures of Christ: A critical analysis of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Christology." University of the Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7285.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhDThis study will contribute to the substantial corpus of secondary scholarship on the life, ministry, and theology of the German theologian, church leader, and modern-day martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945). Bonhoeffer’s legacy has also elicited considerable interest in the South African context, concerning a wide variety of themes such as the Confessing Church movement, secularisation, discipleship, confessing guilt, spirituality, and ethics. The critical question articulated by Bonhoeffer predominantly in his Letters and Papers from Prison, namely ‘Who is Jesus Christ, for us, today?’ has been raised by different generations of South African theologians in rapidly changing contexts. This study will concentrate on Bonhoeffer’s own Christology. The focus will be not so much on the significance of the life and ministry of Jesus Christ within a particular social context, but on how Bonhoeffer understands the person of Christ. More specifically, the problem investigated in this study is how Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s evolving views on the so-called ‘two natures’ of Christ should be understood. The Nicene confession,’ that Jesus Christ is Lord, that he is ‘truly God’ and ‘of one being with the Father, ’ prompted considerable reflection in Patristic Christianity. One crucial question was how the confession of the divinity of Christ reconciles with the humanity of Jesus of Nazareth portrayed so vividly in the canonical gospels. The formulation of the Council of Chalcedon, namely that one may speak of ‘two natures’ and ‘one person,’ has never been satisfactory and prompted further controversy but remains a point of reference in ongoing Christological debates to this day. The question, therefore, raised: How does Bonhoeffer understand the relationship between the ‘divine’ and the ‘human’ nature of Jesus Christ? This question is pertinent given the consistent Christological concentration in Bonhoeffer’s theology (even to the point of a Trinitarian reductionism), his increasing emphasis on a ‘this-worldly’ understanding of God’s transcendence and his consistent Lutheran intuition that the finite can indeed contain the infinite. Bonhoeffer’s Christology has been the subject of much scholarly interest. There is consensus that his Christology remains not only incomplete but also unresolved. A core problem in this regard is his understanding of the divine nature of Christ – which he assumes but of which he does not offer any full account. This study will contribute to the available literature by exploring Bonhoeffer’s understanding of the ‘two natures’ of Christ based on the primary and secondary research with specific reference to Sanctorum Communio (1927/1963), Act and Being (1930/1996), Christology, Discipleship (1937/1959), Ethics (1955, 6th edition and 2005, new critical edition) and Letters and Papers from Prison (2010). There has been considerable controversy in Bonhoeffer scholarship regarding the continuity and discontinuity in Bonhoeffer’s theological thinking from his student years to his death in 1945. It would, therefore, be wise to allow for Bonhoeffer’s ‘evolving’ views on the ‘two natures’ of Jesus Christ to speak for itself. This study will seek to describe and assess (in terms of Bonhoeffer’s sources and secondary scholarship) Bonhoeffer’s views in each of his main works to trace the developments in his thinking.
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Rainbow, Paul Andrew. "Monotheism and christology in I Corinthians 8. 4-6." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bd303c77-567a-48d5-9d2f-cb31b441c14c.
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The thesis is a description of the relationship between the 'one God, the Father' and the 'one Lord, Jesus Christ' in I Cor. 8. 4-6. It analyses Paul's language about God and Christ against the background of contemporary Jewish language about the one God, making use of methodic concepts gleaned eclectically from the structural movement in linguistics and the social sciences. Accordingly, the study falls into two parts: a determination of Paul's Jewish monotheistic presuppositions, and an analysis of I Cor. 8. 4-6 itself. Part one uses the Greek Old Testament, the Apocrypha, the Pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Philo, Josephus, and the New Testament, in particular some two hundred statements of monotheism collected from these sources (presented in an appendix), to illuminate the oblique references to monotheistic belief in Paul's letters. This part of the study concentrates on answering a series of nine questions about Jewish monotheism designed to shed light on Paul's language in our chosen passage. Part two combines the familiar grammatical-historical methods of biblical scholarship with newer, structural methods of exegesis to investigate the doctrinal content of the quasi-confessional language about God and Christ in I Cor. 8 4-6 in the light of our results from part one. The major conclusions of the study can be summarized in three statements. (1) I Cor. 8. 6 contains two classic statements of monotheism using traditional Jewish language, one in reference to the Father and one in reference to Jesus Christ; in each case, the language of monotheism comprehends not only the explicit confession with 'one', but also the prepositional phrases, which contain elements closely associated with belief in one God in Jewish thought. (2) Paul's paradoxical language about God and Christ in this passage certainly expresses the functional subordination of Christ to God, but it very probably presupposes an identity of these two figures at some undefined point, an identity which may well be essential in nature (by comparison especially with Gal. 4.8). (3) The language about Christ in I Cor. 8. 6. is informed not so much by Jewish Wisdom speculation as by Jewish language about the one God: it is best labelled a 'monotheism christology'. Hence the contribution of the thesis to knowledge lies in three areas. (1) It clarifies the nature and associations of Jewish monotheistic language. (2) It provides scientific support for the view, by no means generally accepted, that the New Testament adumbrates the concept of the ontological deity of Christ, using the most current methods of exegesis and working with a comprehensive selection of comparative Jewish materials. (3) It brings to the fore a christological category - the language of monotheism - which has been largely overlooked by researchers in the field of the origins and development of christology in the early church.
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Ranstrom, Erik John. "The Unknown Body of Christ: Towards a Retrieval of the Early Panikkar's Christology of Religions." Thesis, Boston College, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104183.
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Thesis advisor: Catherine CornilleThe purpose of this dissertation is to retrieve the early Panikkar's christology of religions, especially in "Meditacion sobre Melquisdedec" and Le mystere du culte dans l'hindouisme et le christianisme. As opposed to the later Panikkar's pluralist, cosmotheandric christology, the early Panikkar privileges the primacy of Jesus Christ amidst a wider considersation of the value and significance of the religions. This dissertation will also situate the early Panikkar's christology of religions against the background of Dominus Iesus and recent systemtatic theologians seeking to move beyond pluralist christologies. The early Panikkar's understanding of Incarnation meets their criteria for an inclusivist theology of religions, but also challenges the asymmetricality of their christologies, expanding the possibilities for inter-religious learning and transformation. Specifically, Panikkar's early dialogue with karman and advaita illuminates the meaning of Jesus' sacrificial existence and the Church's eucharistic participation in that existence through comparison, shedding light upon the centrality of liturgical and paschal transformation in the Christian tradition. This christocentric comparative theology will be constrasted with Panikkar's later, syncretistic appropriation of Hinduism, influenced by Abhishiktananda's quest for Hindu-Christian synthesis, and will conclude by calling for a renewal of interest in neglected aspects of Panikkar's vast corpus
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Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Theology
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Chow, Alexander. "Theological reconstruction in the People's Republic of China the christology of Bishop K. H. Ting /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p048-0340.
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Olsen, Jørn Henrik. "Kristus i tropisk Afrika : I spændingsfeltet mellem identitet og relevans." Doctoral thesis, Köpenhamns universitet, 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-204215.
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The title of this thesis is Christ in Tropical Africa - in the Tension Between Identity and Relevance. Within a few years Africa will be the greatest Christian continent, and African Christianity will then no longer see itself as a mere continuation of Western Christianity. On the threshold of the 21st Century, this insight challenges Christian theology and missiology which have for a long time answered the helm of the Western missionary movements. This contribution to the scholarly debate on cultural and religions identity issues deals with the question how the recent development ought to be integrated in a systematic reflection, and how Africans - especially African theologians - themselves attempt to highlight the necessity of a relevant and authentic African Christianity and theology. The post-colonial and partly post-missionary era has resulted in a sense of departure and transition which has created space for a renewed and adjusted conception of the question of identity. This dissertation present a critical discourse on African themes and questions concerning identity issues in the perspectives of studies in the areas of theology, anthropology, philosophy, and religion. The discourse shows the complexity of what is called identity, africanity etc. and threw critical light on a tendency of making generalizations and constructions. Dangers of constructions of which Christian African theologians have not always been sufficiently conscious. The interdisciplinary perspective of this study is widening the question of identity while it still constitutes a hermeneutical key to understand the concerns of Christian theology in the tropical part of Africa. African theology is situated in the tension between identity and relevance. This become obvious in African christological proposals. The thesis put a critical test question to the theologians who have contributed with new Christ-titles and -models: Have they both managed to give grounds for the significance of christology for human freedom and identity (the relevance of christology), and at the same time secured the continuity and agreement with the original theological content of christology (the identity of christology in the New Testament)? The question can only partly be answered affirmatively. In some cases the actual understanding of life and conception of reality in a certain context provides the decisive criterion in the interpretation of Biblical concepts and christological titles. This creates hermeneutic problems which are dealt with in the close of the thesis.Contains an English summary
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Kirkpatrick, Matthew D. "Kierkegaard and a religionless Christianity : the place of Søren Kierkegaard in the thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3d3d8d6b-0fa4-41f8-89e9-ded63ac8c291.
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The central aim of this thesis is to analyse the influence of Kierkegaard on Bonhoeffer. This relationship has been almost universally recognized. And yet this area has received no comprehensive study, limited within the secondary literature to footnotes, digressions, and the occasional paper. Furthermore, what little literature there is has been plagued by several stereotypes. First, discussion is often limited to Discipleship. Second, Kierkegaard has been identified as an individualist and acosmist who rejected the church, leading many to consider Bonhoeffer the ecumenist and ecclesiologist as selectively agreeing with Kierkegaard, but ultimately rejecting his overall stance. This thesis will argue that neither stereotype is true, and suggest (a), that Kierkegaard’s influence can be found throughout Bonhoeffer’s work, and (b) that although a more stereotypical perspective may be present in SC, by the end of his life Bonhoeffer had gained a far deeper understanding across the breadth of Kierkegaard’s work. The importance of this thesis is not simply to ‘plug the gap’ of scholarship in this area, but also to suggest the importance of analysing Kierkegaard and Bonhoeffer together. This will focus on three specific areas. First, alongside the influence of Kierkegaard on Bonhoeffer, it will argue for the importance of using Bonhoeffer as an interpretive tool for understanding Kierkegaard. This thesis will show how Bonhoeffer adopted and adapted Kierkegaard’s work to his own situation, forcing Kierkegaard to answer questions that were not present during his own life. In this way, we are led to compare Kierkegaard and Bonhoeffer as individuals, and not simply their static declarations. Secondly, against the tendency to consider Kierkegaard and Bonhoeffer’s final attacks on Christendom as unfortunate endings to otherwise profound careers, it will be suggested that these attacks stand as the fulfilment of their earlier thought. It will be argued that despite their different contexts, both Kierkegaard and Bonhoeffer were led to the same conclusions concerning Christendom. Thirdly, given Kierkegaard’s submission to indirect communication and his somewhat 'prophetic' proclamations concerning one who will come after him and reform, this thesis will ask whether Bonhoeffer stands as something of a fulfilment to Kierkegaard’s thought in the guise of a Kierkegaardian ‘reformer’.
Books on the topic "Christianity - Theology - Christology"
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Daniel, Kendall, ed. Focus on Jesus: Essays in christology and soteriology. Leominster, Herefordshire: Gracewing, 1996.
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Robert, Kahl, ed. Christ and Christianity: Studies in the formation of Christology. Valley Forge, Pa: Trinity Press International, 1994.
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Lüdemann, Gerd. The resurrection of Jesus: History, experience, theology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1994.
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Thomas, Finan, Twomey Vincent, and Patristic Conference (3rd : 1996 : Maynooth, Ireland), eds. Studies in patristic christology. Dublin, Ireland: Four Courts Press, 1998.
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Mark's Jesus: Characterization as narrative Christology. Waco, Tex: Baylor University Press, 2009.
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Batumalai, S. A prophetic Christology for neighbourology: A theology for a prophetic living. Kuala Lumpur: Seminari Theoloji Malaysia, 1986.
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Christ and the end of meaning: The theology of passion. Rockport, MA: Element, 1993.
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Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences., ed. Christ of the Asian peoples: Towards an Asian contextual Christology : based on the documents of Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences. Bangalore: Asian Trading Corp., 1999.
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"Intercultural Theology as the Integration of Ecumenism and Missiology: The Example of Current Latin American Christology." In Crossroad Discourses between Christianity and Culture, 579–98. Brill | Rodopi, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789042028647_033.
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Gacheva, Anastasya G. "DOSTOEVSKY’S THEOLOGY AND THE PROBLEM OF THE MORAL INTERPRETATION OF DOGMA IN RUSSIAN THEOLOGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT IN 19TH–20TH CENTURIES." In Dostoevsky’s Theology, 21–156. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/978-5-9208-0663-5-21-156.
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The chapter analyses Fyodor Dostoevsky’s artistic theology within the context of the tradition of the moral interpretation of dogmas, which developed in Russia during the 19th and the first third of the 20th century. A typical feature of this tradition was the desire to bridge the gap between the temple and the outside of it, between dogmatics and ethics, making the truth of faith the rule of life. The Author shows the development of the idea of the unity of dogmas and commandments in the works of Aleksey Khomiakov, Ivan Kireevsky, Nikolay Fedorov, Vladimir Solov’ev, metropolitan Antony (Khrapovitsky), while simultaneously drawing parallels with Dostoevsky. The work takes into account Dostoevsky’s understanding of two main dogmas of Christianity: the dogma of Trinity and the two-natures dogma. The unconfused and inseparable unity of the Divine hypostases appears in Dostoevsky as an image of perfect interaction between personalities, a rule for social relations, a model of all-encompassing unity of humanity, where the right of personality is reconciled with the right of the whole. Two diary fragments dated 1864 — “Masha is lying on the table…” and “Socialism and Christianity” — are analyzed from the point of view of the Trinitarian question. Dostoevsky holds that when a personality moves towards another and enters in a relation “I” — “you”, considering the other as a face and not as a function, thus giving something to rather than taking something from the other, this personality realizes in his life the mystery of Trinity, professing it in deeds not only in words. Atomicity, antinomy, dualism are corruptions of the Trinitarian principle, while its realization is the idea of “an expanding family, a society-Church, a world that is temple. The Christology of Dostoevsky is analyzed. It is shown that Dostoevsky’s perception of Christ as “the ideal of man in flesh” should be understood not in the context of utopian thought, but as a manifestation of the idea of the deification of man, as expressed in the patristic aphorism: “For the Son of God became man so that we might become God”. The essay shows how the assertion of the equality of Christ’s two natures, Divine and human, affects Dostoevsky’s anthropology and historiosophy. Views of the writer’s contemporaries, as well as of other 20th-Century philosophers and theologians who developed the idea of a moral interpretation of the dogma of Trinity and of the Divine-humanity of Christ (archimandrite Fedor (Bukharev), bishop Ioann (Sokolov), Nikolay Fedorov, Vladimir Solov’ev, archimandrite Antony (Khrapovitsky), Viktor Nesmelov, Sergey Bulgakov, Boris Vysheslavtsev, Nikolay Lossky, Aleksandr Gorsky, Mother Maria (Elizaveta Kuz’mina- Karavaeva)) are considered.
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Zimmermann, Jens. "Bonhoeffer’s Theological Anthropology and the Greater Tradition, Part I." In Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Christian Humanism, 37–78. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832560.003.0002.
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Chapter 2 (together with the subsequent Chapter 3) explores the similarities between Bonhoeffer’s theological anthropology and patristic views of human nature to show that Bonhoeffer’s anthropology is not a reversal of patristic thought but rather its creative continuation. The common root of their humanistic theology is Christology, particularly the recapitulation of humanity in Christ. After discussing the possible extent of patristic influence on his theology, the chapter outlines patristic humanism based on the fathers’ Christological interpretation of the imago dei and then aligns this view with the centrality of the incarnation in Bonhoeffer’s work. The remaining sections unfold further theological parallels between Bonhoeffer and patristic humanism in the Eucharist, the doctrine of the logos, Trinitarian communion, deification, and especially the congruence between Irenaeus’ recapitulation and Bonhoeffer’s Stellvertretung (vicarious representation). Already in earlier works, but particularly in Discipleship and later in Ethics, Bonhoeffer clearly shares Irenaeus’ assumption that Christ summed up and renewed in himself all of humanity, wherefore Christianity is not a belief system or religion but participation in the new humanity of Christ and therefore sharing in a new human reality.
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Rassi, Salam. "Debating Natures and Persons." In Christian Thought in the Medieval Islamicate World, 135–93. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192846761.003.0005.
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Chapter 4 discusses the Incarnation in ʿAbdīshōʿs works. Central to his defence of this doctrine is the argument that Christ possessed a divine and a human nature, each united in a single person. For Muslim polemicists such a notion was further proof of Christianity’s denial of God’s oneness, leading ʿAbdīshōʿ to make a case for the Incarnation’s rootedness in reason and revelation. As in his Trinitarian doctrine, our author appeals to a theological and literary vocabulary shared in by Christians and Muslims. Nevertheless, he explicitly cites Christian authorities, suggesting that it is to the language of Islamic theology rather than its substance that he wishes to appeal. With that said, ʿAbdīshōʿ does not merely instrumentalize this language for the sake of apologetics. By employing poetic and narrative techniques shared between Christian and Muslim literatures, our author supplies renewed meaning and relevance to the mystery of the Incarnation and the biblical story of Christ’s mission. In contrast to his Trinitarian dogma, which appears uniformly directed against external criticisms, aspects of ʿAbdīshōʿ’s Christology are grounded in intra-Christian polemics, since various Christian confessions under Islamic rule were for centuries divided over the issue of Christ’s natures. Later in life, however, ʿAbdīshōʿ skilfully negotiated this vexed theological inheritance to formulate a Christology that was no longer hostile to other Christians.