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Beck, Andreas J. "Reformed Confessions and Scholasticism. Diversity and Harmony." Perichoresis 14, no. 3 (December 1, 2016): 17–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/perc-2016-0014.
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Abstract This paper discusses the complex relationship of Reformed confessions and Reformed orthodox scholasticism. It is argued that Reformed confessions differ in genre and method from Reformed scholastic works, although such differences between confessional and scholastic language should not be mistaken for representing different doctrines that are no longer in harmony with each other. What is more, it is precisely the scholastic background and training of the authors of such confessions that enabled them to place their confessional writings in the broader catholic tradition of the Christian church and to include patristic and medieval theological insights. Thus proper attention to their scholastic background helps to see that at least in some confessions the doctrine of predestination, for instance, is not as ‘rigid’ as one might think at first sight. In order to demonstrate that the doctrine of the Reformed confessions was much in line with the scholastic theology of Reformed orthodoxy, this paper discusses, after having explained the terms ‘Reformed orthodoxy’ and ‘scholasticism’, the early Reformed scholastic theologians Beza, Zanchi, and Ursinus, who also have written confessional texts. The paper also includes a more detailed discussion of the Belgic Confession and the scholastic background of the Canons of Dordt and the Westminster Confession, thereby focusing on the doctrines of God, providence, and predestination.
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Smit, D. J. "Confessional and ecumenical? Revisiting Edmund Schlink on the hermeneutics of doctrine." Verbum et Ecclesia 29, no. 2 (November 17, 2008): 446–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ve.v29i2.43.
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Confessional and ecumenical? Revisiting Edmund Schlink on the hermeneutics of doctrineConrad Wethmar has always been interested in questions concerning the hermeneutics of doctrine, often concentrating on methodological issues regarding the role of confessions and the challenges of ecumenical theology. For this purpose, he consistently engaged with German-speaking Lutheran theologians. In this essay, the important views and contributions of Edmund Schlink regarding confessional and ecumenical theology are called to mind, as one further potential dialogue partner for South African theologians like Wethmar. A first section reminds readers of Wethmar’s contributions. The second section recalls Schlink’s theological journey and the role of confessions – both Lutheran confessions and the Confessing Church with Barmen – as well as the ecumenical church – several real dialogues between major confessional traditions, including his role during the Second Vatican Council – before the third sections draws some of his major methodological insights and contributions together. A brief final section points to some potential similarities between Schlink’s work and Wethmar’s interests.
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Göcke, Benedikt Paul. "A Scientific Theology? A Programmatic Account of the Problems and Prospects for Confessional and Scientific Theology." TheoLogica: An International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology 1, no. 1 (July 19, 2017): 53–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.14428/thl.v1i1.83.
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There are at least three kinds of arguments against the possibility of scientific and confessional theology: The first kind of argument tries to show that there is no universe of discourse that theology could investigate as a scientific discipline. The second kind of argument is not directed against the existence of theology’s putative universe of discourse. Instead, this kind of argument tries to show that even if there is a universe of discourse theology could investigate, it fails to do so by using scientific methods. The third kind of argument tries to show that even if theology has a universe of discourse and deploys scientific methods, it is still not a scientific discipline because it conflicts with the historical and natural sciences that are supposed to be more reliable than theology. In what follows, I clarify the importance of the scientificness of confessional theology for the plausibility of religious worldviews. I analyse the arguments put forward against the possibility of scientific and confessional theology. I indicate systematic weaknesses in the arguments that the theologian should use to show that they do not stand up to scrutiny and suggest a programmatic list of tasks the theologian has to engage in to demonstrate that scientific and confessional theology is indeed possible, if not already at hand
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Congdon, David. "Jesus and Faith: The Doctrine of Faith in Scripture and the Reformed Confessions." Journal of Reformed Theology 3, no. 3 (2009): 321–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187251609x12559402787119.
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AbstractThis article examines the complicated relationship between church confession and Holy Scripture as it manifests itself in the doctrine of faith expounded in the Reformed confessions of the sixteenth century. I first locate the problem historically in the conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism. I then summarize the New Testament witness to faith, examine whether the Reformed confessions do justice to this witness, and conclude by suggesting some theological possibilities for a fresh doctrine of faith within the context of a confessional and biblical Reformed theology. Along the way, I raise questions about the relationships between divine action and human action and between Son and Spirit in the event of faith.
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Stosch, Klaus von. "Comparative Theology as Liberal and Confessional Theology." Religions 3, no. 4 (October 22, 2012): 983–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel3040983.
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Lillback, Peter. "THE ABIDING LEGACY OF THE REFORMATION’S CONFESSIONAL ORTHODOXY: THE REQUIRED VOWS OF WESTMINSTER SEMINARY PROFESSORS AND NAPARC MINISTERS." VERBUM CHRISTI: JURNAL TEOLOGI REFORMED INJILI 6, no. 2 (October 14, 2019): 109–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.51688/vc6.2.2019.art2.
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This article revisits how Christians since almost two millenniums have made use of creeds and confessions. Especially confessional vows used at Westminster Theological Seminary, also refer to the vows of the churches who are members of NAPARC (The North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council). First, it examines the historical overview of various Reformed confessions, and historical survey of Reformed confessions from the Reformation to the present. Then, Westminster seminary's Presbyterian and Reformed heritage, and finally, authority of and subscription to the confessions. To define Reformed confessional theology which arose in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, this article include the table of the confessions of Westminster seminary or the NAPARC churches.
KEYWORDS: creeds, confessions, Westminster, Reformed.
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Engelhardt, Jan Felix. "Beyond the Confessional/Non-Confessional Divide—The Case of German Islamic Theological Studies." Religions 12, no. 2 (January 21, 2021): 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12020070.
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This article focuses on the cross-disciplinary collaboration of Islamic theological studies, Islamic Studies, and integrative perspectives of professors in Islamic Theology in Germany. Based on extensive interviews with German Muslim professors in theological centers, Engelhardt argues that in Germany, where the Ministry of Education and Research established several centers for Islamic Theology, the theological scholarly community is too small to cover all areas of Islamic knowledge and therefore integrates knowledge from Islamic Studies into their research and teaching to a great extent. As a result, Islamic Studies constitutes the most important neighboring discipline to German Islamic Theology. In this article, he explores the question of how exactly German Islamic Theology negotiates this relation with Islamic Studies. The article will show how the debate between Islamic Theology and Islamic Studies—as articulated by professors from both disciplines—relates to the ongoing question of what constitutes or is understood as ‘apt knowledge’ by current ‘academic knowledge production’ and authority formation about ‘the Islamic’.
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Sexton, Jason S. "Confessional Theology in Public Places." International Journal of Public Theology 10, no. 2 (June 4, 2016): 232–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15697320-12341444.
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This article considers the nature of public theology by assessing essential features of western public space and precisely how Christian confession takes shape in those contexts. In doing so the article argues that instead of understanding theology as something done primarily from the church to the world, perhaps it is best acknowledged that theology is done within the setting of common societal structures, in particular locations and in situations where believers are enabled to confess the hope within them. An understanding of this dynamic nature of Christian confession and the variegated expositions of theological reflection corresponds to the dynamic expressions of faith, in word and deed, which correspond to the Christian missionary impulse.
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Settle, Tom. "In Defence of Confessional Theology." Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 3, no. 2 (1991): 203–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006891x00193.
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Alfeyev, Grigoriy V., and Alexander I. Kyrlezhev. "Theology in the Church and at the secular university: Features and problems." Issues of Theology 3, no. 2 (2021): 130–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu28.2021.201.
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In an interview with Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokolamsk, several topics are touched upon concerning the nature of Christian theology, the differences between the theology of the Church proper, which exists in theological schools and in the Orthodox theological community, and theology in universities, which is recognized in Russia as a field of the humanities and a group of specialties for which degrees are awarded. Theology as a field institutionally unites different confessional theologies — primarily the traditional religious confessions: Orthodoxy, Islam, and Judaism. Metropolitan Hilarion defends the idea that theology in this secular space should be confessional, and therefore it is necessary to approbate theological research by the relevant religious organizations. At the same time, Metropolitan Hilarion supports the principle of academic freedom, meaning freedom of theological research within the framework of religious traditions and referring readers to historical examples that are the subject of patrology. In the second part of the conversation, Metropolitan Hilarion describes his own path in theology — from the first patrological works to the latest large-scale project of New Testament theology, the fruit of which was a six-volume study dedicated to Jesus Christ as a historical character and as a Man revealing God. This conversation, on the one hand, outlines the position of the Church in relation to theology in its ecclesiastical and secular dimensions, and, on the other hand, reflects the personal history of an authoritative Orthodox theologian, who responds to the challenges of the time and offers a modern interpretation of the main theological topics, while remaining faithful to the unbroken church tradition.
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Ollenburger, Ben. "Discoursing Old Testament Theology." Biblical Interpretation 11, no. 3 (2003): 617–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156851503322566976.
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AbstractStephen Fowl has argued that biblical (so Old Testament) theology is too beholden to academic biblical studies, and too far removed from settings in particular communities of faith, to nurture theological interpretation of scripture. Philip Davies has argued that Old Testament theology is inevitably (Christian) confessional and has no place in academic biblical studies, which should practice a self-consciously non-confessional and only "etic" discourse. Traversing Davies's argument and his use of "discourse," this essay makes brief and unassuming reference to Pierre Bourdieu and Michel de Certeau in moving toward Charles Taylor's definition of "self-defining" social theories. It argues that such practices and convictions of certain communities provide the context and purpose of Old Testament theology.
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Pauw, Amy Plantinga. "Looking back, looking forward." Theology in Scotland 26, S (September 11, 2019): 31–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.15664/tis.v26is.1874.
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Professor Plantinga Pauw was invited to give a perspective on the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America’s adoption of a book of confessions rather than a single confessional standard. Her paper speaks of her experience of using the PC(USA)’s Book of Confessions both as a member of the church and as a teacher of doctrinal theology in a Presbyterian seminary. It describes the church’s current Book of Confessions, examines the reasons for its adoption, and provides examples of the benefits she believes it has provided to the church.
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Russell, William R. "The Theological “Magna Charta” of Confessional Lutheranism." Church History 64, no. 3 (September 1995): 389–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3168946.
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The breakup of Western Christendom in the sixteenth century gained momentum when an academic theologian called into question the theology of the church in his day. Martin Luther wanted to discuss theology when he posted his Ninety-five Theses in 1517. In the ensuing years, Luther and the “Lutherans” were forced to forge their theology in the heat of an intensely polemical and conflict-ridden environment. They responded to the theological issues raised by their opponents, as well as to the real pastoral concerns of the emerging evangelical church in Protestant lands.
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Shin, Yoon. "Confessing at the Altar." Pneuma 42, no. 2 (August 24, 2020): 201–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700747-bja10004.
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Abstract This article responds to J. Aaron Simmons’ concerns that James K.A. Smith’s methodology for confessional pentecostal philosophy prohibits philosophical dialogue with the confessional Other. Its responses specifically address Simmons’ proposed personal methodology and his two main concerns about Smith’s methodology: (1) confessional philosophy allows an encroachment of theology into philosophy that threatens the autonomy of philosophy; and (2) confessional philosophy discourages philosophical dialogue with the confessional Other, and promotes insularity and defensiveness by utilizing theologically determinate evidence that act as incommensurable authority structures. The first section of this paper exposits Simmons’ other works that illumine the reasons for his concern. Specifically, it identifies Simmons’ Thomistic view of reason and new phenomenology’s commitment to the hypothetical status of God-talk as the reasons for Simmons’ opposition to Smith’s confessional philosophical method. After clarifying Simmons’ own position, the second section addresses Simmons’ concerns that confessional philosophy promotes epistemic arrogance, defensiveness, and dialogical insularity. Moreover, it provides five responses to Simmons’ concern that confessional philosophy utilizes incommensurate authority structures and that it threatens philosophy’s autonomy through the incursion of theology. The paper concludes with a reflection on the current state and future of pentecostal philosophy
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Gorkusha, Oksana. "Thematic field of confessional theology of Ukraine." Ukrainian Religious Studies, no. 46 (March 25, 2008): 174–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/2008.46.1925.
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Ukraine is a multi-confessional state. Here, various worldview systems coexist, often syncretizing various traditional elements, and the individual worldview is often marked by eclecticism. The colorful worldviews of modern Ukrainians are a consequence of their ambiguous spiritual history and the manifestation of today's world-wide processes in the world. For this reason, we cannot speak of any particular theological system that substantiates one religious concept. Instead, we can trace some common trends in different theological systems that in one way or another attempt to satisfy the contemporary worldviews of believing Ukrainians.
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Platvoet, Jan. "Close Harmonies: The Science of Religion in Dutch Duplex Ordo Theology, 1860-1960." Numen 45, no. 2 (1998): 115–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568527981588359.
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AbstractIn this article, the history of the Science of Religion in the Netherlands in the period 1860 to 1960 is surveyed at the time when it was an integral part of Dutch liberal academic theology as pursued in the faculties of theology at the universities of Leiden, Groningen, Utrecht and Amsterdam. In 1876, these faculties were given a special statute, the so-called Duplex Ordo, in a law that separated the ‘confessional’ theological disciplines from the ‘scientific’ ones. It also introduced the new disciplines of the Science of Religion and the Philosophy of Religion into these reconstituted faculties. I discuss Tiele's plan to make the Science of Religion their central discipline, and why it was ultimately given only a marginal place in them. My main concern, however, is to outline the theology which inspired the Science of Religion of Tiele, Chantepie, Van der Leeuw and Bleeker and to demonstrate its ‘close harmony’ with the liberal theology prevailing in these Duplex Ordo faculties, as also in at least some of the modalities of the Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk whose ministers were trained, again by law, in these faculties. It was that close harmony which allowed Van der Leeuw to disregard the Duplex Ordo and to establish a full harmony between the Science of Religion and confessional theology. I also discuss dissonant voices, Kraemer's especially, calling for the abrogation of the Duplex Ordo and the integration of the Science of Religion into a militantly confessional theology.
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Fergusson, David. "Theology Today – Currents and Directions." Expository Times 123, no. 3 (November 14, 2011): 105–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0014524611423735.
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While more fragmented than in mid-20th century, recent trends and directions in theology reveal some dominant approaches and particular sub-areas that have become the focus of significant attention. Although overlapping and intersecting, these are discernible both methodologically and thematically. Approaches include a commitment to cross-disciplinarity, contextuality, strategies of retrieval, articulation of confessional identity, and the re-appropriation of liberalism. Important sub-areas include the relationship with other religions, public theology, theology and Bible, philosophical theology, and apologetics. In conclusion, a plea for systematic theology is entered.
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Savinov, Rodion V. "Reconstruction of argumentation about the possibility of natural theology in confessional polemics at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries." Issues of Theology 3, no. 1 (2021): 58–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu28.2021.104.
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This article describes the problem of the possibility of natural theology, as it was understood in the discussion between Catholics and Protestants at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. The topic is relevant because on the one hand, the category theologia naturalis by this time accumulated a lot of theological and philosophical values, and it is for some traditions a system-forming category that identifies the relation of certain concepts of early modern science. On the other hand, it formed a point around which arguments for and against fundamental decisions were built in the field of ontology, epistemology, anthropology, etc. Thus, the problem of natural theology, its possibilities, composition, and connection with the theology of Revelation (theologia revelata) is a fundamental factor in the development of confessional thought in the early modern period. In studying this problem, emphasis is placed on the ways to conceptualize the idea of natural theology, since this factor determined some strategy of argumentation, that a thinker chooses, justifying a positive or negative assessment of the significance of this problem. A special attribute of the approach is the consideration of how the problem of the possibility of natural theology was understood within the agenda of a specific strategy of theological and philosophical argumentation (in particular, in William Ames’ theological works). The approach allowed us to reveal an authentic understanding of the scope and structure of the problem of the possibility of natural theology, characteristic of authors at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, as well as to describe ways to systematize various arguments into a single strategy for positive or negative evaluation of the phenomenon of natural theology.
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Mason, Jordan. "Confessional Approach to Disclosure of Medical Error." Christian bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality 27, no. 2 (June 8, 2021): 203–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cb/cbab006.
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Abstract Recent literature on the ethics of medical error disclosure acknowledges the feelings of injustice, confusion, and grief patients and their families experience as a result of medical error. Substantially less literature acknowledges the emotional and relational discomfort of the physicians responsible or suggests a meaningful way forward. To address these concerns more fully, I propose a model of medical error disclosure that mirrors the theological and sacramental technique of confession. I use Aquinas’ description of moral acts to show that all medical errors are evil, and some accidental medical errors constitute venial sins; all sin and evil should be confessed. As Aquinas urges confession for sins, here I argue that confession is necessary to restore physicians to the community and to provide a sense of absolution. Even mistakes for which physicians are not morally culpable ought to be confessed in order to heal the physician–patient relationship and to address feelings of professional distress. This paper utilizes an Episcopal theology of confession that affirms verbal admission and responsibility-taking as freeing and relationally restoring acts, arguing that a confessional stance toward medical error both leads to better outcomes in physician–patient relationships and is more compassionate toward physicians who err.
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Allen, Michael. "Systematic Theology and Biblical Theology—Part One." Journal of Reformed Theology 14, no. 1-2 (March 27, 2020): 52–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15697312-bja10002.
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Abstract Debates about the definitions of and relationship between systematic theology and biblical theology have become commonplace. Institutional and intellectual programs have taken sides and stood over against each other. Even within the relatively small world of confessional Reformed theology, the matter has garnered a good bit of attention and controversy. Matters have only grown more complex with the rise, more recently, of theological interpretation of scripture or theological exegesis, which may or may not overlap with both systematics and biblical theology. This essay seeks to reflect on perhaps the most influential proposals thus far and then to suggest a way forward. To that end, proposals by Geerhardus Vos, John Murray, and Richard Gaffin will be examined at length. In each case, their argument will be traced patiently, with observations and questions raised in a preliminary manner. Deeper analysis and a counterproposal will appear in a second essay.
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Małłek, Janusz. "Weiterführende Fragen zur Erforschung der preußischen Reformationsgeschichte." Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History 99, no. 1 (December 1, 2008): 285–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.14315/arg-2008-0113.
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ABSTRACT In this article, the author characterizes the state of research on the history of the Reformation in ducal and in royal Prussia and formulates research questions for the future. He takes up the organization of the “new” church; the pastorate and elders; church discipline; the culture of confession; the Polish and Prussian Reformations; and confessional identity and confessionalization. He expresses reservations concerning the view that domestic Prussian theology was dominant and points to western influences. He studies the causes for the loose ties between Protestants in both parts of Prussia and the Polish crown despite their common interests.
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Yuzeev, A. N. "THEOLOGY AS MODERN DISCIPLINE IN SECULAR AND CONFESSIONAL ASPECTS." Islam in the modern world 14, no. 4 (January 7, 2019): 173–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.22311/2074-1529-2018-14-4-173-180.
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Theology is a new speciality, approved by the education instututes of Russian Federation., It is related to religion and religious life.. The creation of a new educational standard makes it possible to fi ll the gap of the past, when religion in certain periods of history played a signifi cant role in society and a new look at the possibility of religion in the formation of the spiritual component of modern man. The importance of correlation between secular and religious in the educational process of the new speciality is great. The diff erentiation of the sphere of existence of philosophy and religion took place in medieval Arab Muslim thought, as Ibn Rushd (XII century) wrote. In the same spirit of contradiction of religion and philosophy thought the Tatar thinker of the XIX century S. Mardzhani and at the beginning of XX century R. Fahraddin. The relevance of the new educational standard theology for the formation of modern spiritual personality is considerable.
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Yuzeev, Aydar N. "THE MAKING OF ISLAMIC THEOLOGY: CONFESSIONAL AND REGIONAL ASPECTS." Islam in the modern world 12, no. 4 (January 1, 2016): 193–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.22311/2074-1529-2016-12-4-193-196.
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Lewis, Paul. "Book Review: The Open Circle: Confessional Method in Theology." Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 47, no. 2 (April 1993): 213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002096430004700242.
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Smits, Johan. "The Historical Mediation of God and Man: Vermittlungstheologie’s use of Hegelianism for Constructing a Theological System." Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie 60, no. 2 (May 29, 2018): 282–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/nzsth-2018-0015.
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Summary Despite criticism, the thought of G. W. F. Hegel has been highly influential in theology. This article contributes to the debate on the heritage of Hegel from a historical perspective, by studying the theological movement of Vermittlungstheologie. It is demonstrated how Hegelianism provided these theologians with the tools to transform insights from confessional and “Schleiermacherian” theology into a comprehensive worldview. Special attention is paid to the construction of a system of theology with the incarnation at its heart.
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Cardita, Ângelo. "RECONFIGURANDO A TEOLOGIA EM VISTA DO BEM COMUM." Perspectiva Teológica 44, no. 123 (September 3, 2014): 275. http://dx.doi.org/10.20911/21768757v44n123p275/2012.
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Neste artigo, lançam-se as bases para uma reconfiguração da teologia científica em vista do bem comum. Defende-se que a teologia deve abandonar a intimidade das igrejas e comunidades religiosas e, portanto, o modelo confessional, para se reestruturar como teologia pública com pertinência social. Neste sentido, discute-se o modelo deliberativo de bem comum de Daniel Innerarity e analisamse as duas principais transformações epistemológicas, necessárias para a reconfiguração da teologia em vista do bem comum: a teologia como ciência das religiões, tal como propõe Pannenberg, e a estruturação transcendental do bem humano, integrando a própria questão de Deus, segundo Lonergan.ABSTRACT: In this article, there is an approach at the base levels for a reconfiguration of scientific theology in view of the common good. It is argued that theology should abandon the intimacy of the churches and religious communities and, therefore, the confessional model, to restructure itself as public theology with social relevance. In this sense, it discusses the deliberative model of common good of Daniel Innerarity and it analyzes the two main epistemological transformations required for the reconfiguration of theology in view of the common good: theology as a science of religions, such as proposed by Pannenberg, and the transcendental structuring of human good, integrating the issue of God, according to Lonergan.
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Vroom, H. M. "De Vrije Universiteit en de organisatie van de theologie in Nederland." Verbum et Ecclesia 18, no. 2 (July 4, 1997): 395–414. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ve.v18i2.572.
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Theology at the Free University of Amsterdam: the foundation in 1880 and its relation to the churches. In this second part of the description of the Dutch system of protestant theology the background of the foundation of the Vrije Universiteit at Amsterdam has been described. The foundation of the VU was a reaction on the "duplex ordo" at the state universities. All disciplines of theology have been understood to be fully theological (and not some neutral, some confessional). The views of Abraham Kuyper concerning the relation between the theological faculty and the refonned churches are discussed, and shortly also his conception of theology.
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Koopman, Nico. "Reformed Theology in South Africa: Black? Liberating? Public?" Journal of Reformed Theology 1, no. 3 (2007): 294–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156973107x250987.
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AbstractThis paper discusses the inherent public nature of Reformed theology and demonstrates how Reformed theology informed and enriched the discourses of black theology, liberation theology, and public theology in both apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa. Black, Reformed theologian Allan Boesak emphasized the reign of the Triune God in all walks of life. Reformed theologian John De Gruchy cherished the central notion in Reformed theology that God especially identifies with the poor, wronged, and most vulnerable. Finally, Reformed theologian Dirkie Smit demonstrates how Reformed theology assists the development of public theology by focusing, on the one hand, on the rich Christian confessional tradition, and on the other hand, by participating in pluralistic public debates on the basis of this rich tradition. Based on this discussion, some lessons for the development of public theology from the Reformed tradition are spelled out.
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Malek, George N. "Confessional theology: the way to dialogue between Christianity and Islam." Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs. Journal 8, no. 2 (July 1987): 221–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02666958708716032.
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Paeth, Scott. "Whose Public? Which Theology? Signposts on the Way to a 21st Century Public Theology." International Journal of Public Theology 10, no. 4 (November 22, 2016): 461–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15697320-12341461.
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This article examines the way that public theology addresses the contemporary challenges represented by pluralism, secularization, and globalization. In analyzing how these challenges represent the context in which a 21st century public theory must be done, it attempts to demonstrate how public theology must craft a response that emerges out of a self-consciously theological and moral engagement with them. The question of “whose public” is being addressed necessarily raises the complementary question of with “which theology” we should engage it. Several options, confessional, apologetic, and synthetic, are considered. In the final analysis, each of these options offers promising possibilities, but also carries attendant risks, of which the two most pressing are ossification and dissolution.
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Eunice S. L. Gomes, Virgínia M. de S. Silva. "Imagens da população em situação de rua: A teologia pública na construção da cidadania." REFLEXUS - Revista Semestral de Teologia e Ciências das Religiões 7, no. 9 (March 9, 2015): 161. http://dx.doi.org/10.20890/reflexus.v7i9.196.
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Resumo: Nosso objetivo é abordar a Teologia Pública numa perspectiva da construção da cidadania com a População em Situação de Rua em João Pessoa/PB. Tendo em vista a sociedade vigente ser plural, globalizada e secularizada, consideramos o papel da teologia na esfera pública para interagir com outros setores da sociedade visando romper as barreiras confessionais para contribuir com a justiça social e os direitos humanos. A pesquisa é descritiva e de campo; o instrumento foi a história de vida dos sujeitos e a análise das imagens e do discurso fundamentada na Teoria Geral do Imaginário de G. Durand. Palavras-chave: Imaginário. População em Situação de Rua. Teologia Pública. Abstract: We approach Public Theology from a perspective of citizenship construction in its relationship with Homeless People in João Pessoa/PB. Considering that the current society is pluralistic, globalized and secularized, we take into account the role of theology in the public sphere in order to interact with other sectors of society aiming at overcoming confessional barriers and contributing to social justice and Human Rights. The research is descriptive and based on field observation; the tool is the individuals' life story and the analysis of the images and speech based on G. Durand's general theory of the imaginary. Keywords: Imaginary. Homeless People. Public Theology.
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Crișan, Alexandru-Marius. "Interconfessional (Mixed) Marriage: The Theological Dimension of the “Person” and Pastoral Care in the History of the Holy and Great Council of Crete and Related Documents." Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu 10, no. 3 (December 1, 2018): 373–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ress-2018-0029.
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Abstract In the last century, under the influence of the theological personalism (theology of the Person), the Orthodox Church felt the need of a universal and uniform approach to different pastoral questions. Among those we find also the question of inter-confessional (mixed) marriage. This question was approached during the preparation of the Holy and Great Council of Crete. In 2016 the Great Council of the Orthodox Church, finally convened, specified and confessed that inter-confessional marriages are forbidden according to the traditional canon-law (akriveia), but the salvation of the person must be kept in mind and permission could be given in the spirit of pastoral discernment (oikonomia). The history of the Council shows the struggle for finding a balance between canon law and pastoral care, regarding many pastoral issues nowadays, including inter-confessional marriage.
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Turenko, Vitalii, and Viktoriia Viktoriia. "CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE PANDEMIC PHENOMENON IN PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS." Sophia. Human and Religious Studies Bulletin 15, no. 1 (2020): 27–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/sophia.2020.15.7.
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The article provides a comparative analysis of the pandemic discourse in such areas of human knowledge as philosophy, theology and academic religious studies. The philosophical discourse associated with the pandemic phenomenon aims to reflect on the relationship between the individual and the social, the personal and the political, freedom and non-freedom. Through the concept of "biopolitics" philosophy considers this concept as a factor of modern power, although at the same time the epidemic becomes the basis for seeing the Other in a special way and helping him in the current crisis situation. It has been established that in a theological context, a pandemic is not only God's punishment for the sins of ignorance, but also one of the potential options for self-improvement. Theological discourse examines not only the causes of pandemics in humanity, but also tries to understand its teleological nature in the life of every person. The situation of the pandemic creates a special direction in theology, which has already been referred to as "quarantine theology", "pandemic theology", "virus theology", or "coronavirus theology" in general. It was revealed that in academic religious studies, the phenomenon of a pandemic is revealed in the threat-challenge binary opposition. Accordingly, within the framework of this discourse, the study of the specifics of the implementation of the activities of religious organizations, the characteristics of state-confessional relations, as well as the possible consequences of epidemics is carried out. Also, religious understanding focuses not so much on the study of the causes of epidemics, diseases, etc., but focuses on highlighting the specifics of the functioning of religious organizations in such a crisis situation, the peculiarities of state-confessional relations during a pandemic, and disclosing potential consequences for the spiritual , and the laity.
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Sarot, Marcel. "Aan God recht doen: Systematische theologie tussen analyse en hermeneutiek." NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 67, no. 1 (February 18, 2013): 27–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/ntt2013.67.027.saro.
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In this reply to Schaafsma et al., the author argues that it is inevitable that hermeneutics is part of the enterprise of systematic theology, and that the approach of Schaafsma et al. has the following advantages: (1) It is applicable within secular universities; (2) It appeals to the many who have few religious certainties but are seeking for religious truth; (3) It can be applied in comparative theology and interreligious dialogue. Nevertheless, he argues that the hermeneutical approach that is proposed by itself does not suffice as the method of systematic theology, because (1) It does not enable theologians to go beyond the interpretation of texts and to check their theological proposals against the realities behind these texts, and (2) It no longer takes its starting point in faith, thus assimilating systematic theology to the humanities. If confessional theology would limit itself to this, it would lose its reason for existence.
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Cady, Linell E. "A Model for a Public Theology." Harvard Theological Review 80, no. 2 (April 1987): 193–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017816000023609.
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A small but growing number of theologians have begun to call for the development of a “public theology.” Although the proposals vary, they are fueled by a common desire to counteract the cultural marginalization of contemporary theology. Having lost its former power to influence public debate about our beliefs and actions, theology has increasingly become a privatized form of reflection. Too often theologians have become comfortable with this state of affairs, abandoning all presumptions to speak to or for those outside their narrow communities. Theological arguments have degenerated into dogmatic assertions or confessional accounts of personal beliefs which lack the power or intent to persuade others. As David Tracy so aptly puts it, we have fled to local “reservations of the spirit” where we need not confront the wider indifference to and impotence of our work.
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Thorsen, Jakob Egeris. "“Økumenisk Teologi” anno 2013." Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift 76, no. 4 (May 20, 2018): 312–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/dtt.v76i4.105695.
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In the midst of what has been termed an “ecumenical winter” the publication of a new textbook in Danish on the topic of ecumenical theology is noteworthy. This article first and foremost gives a comprehensive introduction to Peder Nørgaard-Højen’s Økumenisk Teologi – en introduktion [“Ecumenical Theology – an Introduction”]. In his book, Nørgaard-Højen prioritizes an analysis of the multilateral ecumenical dialogues in the Faith and Order-movement as well as the bilateral dialogues between the established confessional families. Thisarticle discusses the strengths and weaknesses of this approach in thelight of the development of world Christianity anno 2013.
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Crisp, Oliver. "The Election of Jesus Christ." Journal of Reformed Theology 2, no. 2 (2008): 131–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156973108x306227.
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AbstractIn modern theology the election of Christ is often associated with the work of Karl Barth. In this paper, I offer an alternative account of Christ's election in dialogue with the Post-Reformation Reformed tradition. It turns out that, contrary to popular belief, there is no single 'Reformed' doctrine of election; a range of views has been tolerated in the tradition. I set out one particular construal of the election of Christ that stays within the confessional parameters of Reformed theology, while arguing, contrary to some Reformed divines, that Christ is the cause and foundation of election.
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Lodberg, Peter. "Grundtvig i økumenisk perspektiv." Grundtvig-Studier 49, no. 1 (January 1, 1998): 157–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/grs.v49i1.16276.
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Grundtvig in an Ecumenical PerspectiveBy Peter LodbergN.F.S. Grundtvig’s theology has often been perceived as a uniquely Danish phenomenon. This has resulted in a failure to appreciate the ecumenical themes in his theology and has precluded a positive consideration of what impulses his comprehensive work may have added to the ecumenical debate about such issues as practical theology, ecclesiology, and the relationship between Scripture and tradition.The article points out that in order to understand Grundtvig’s church view it is absolutely essential to begin with the Danish version of a classical discussion in ecumenical theology: the relationship between justification and church, christology and ecclesiology, as it manifested itself in the discussion between Grundtvig and H.N. Clausen about the nature of Catholicism and Protestantism.In Kirkens Gienmæle (The Rejoinder of the Church), Grundtvig rejects the attempt by modem Protestantism to establish a fundamental difference between the two versions of the understanding of Christianity in the Western Church as far as the question of the relationship between justification and church is concerned. According to Grundtvig, such an attempt is bound to end in heresy, since it fails to appreciate the actual historical church as the bearer of God’s salvation in the world. Instead Grundtvig emphasizes an ecumenical ecclesiology, starting from a common confession of the Apostles’ Creed, Baptism and Communion, which are the unifying elements of all Christians, regardless of differences in theological dogma. Hence follows that there is no fundamental difference between Catholicism and Protestantism, but a shared basic view as far as the content and celebration of faith is concerned.Thus, what Grundtvig achieves is a theological freedom to remain critical of the transformations undergone by the historical church in its many confessional and national versions through the ages. But at the same time this means that there is a decisive systematic-theological point in emphasizing that Grundtvig always speaks about the Christian Church before he speaks about the confessional or national church. It should be stressed at the same time that the all-Christian church is not invisible or an unattainable ideal, but a historical fact when the congreation is gathered for divine service. Here the Gospel and the Holy Communion is administered to people, so the faith must live in their hearts.Grace is thus inseparable from and dependent on the sacramental presence as it is experienced in the church which is the congregation celebrating divine service. Thus the way has been opened for a positive consideration of Grundtvig’s contributions to ecumenical theology.
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Kalimi, Isaac. "Models for Jewish Bible Theologies." Horizons In Biblical Theology 39, no. 2 (October 17, 2017): 107–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18712207-12341350.
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Abstract Against continuing attempts to define “Old Testament theology” or “biblical theology” in exclusively Christian terms, and in light of ongoing methodological diversity and confusion between proponents of Jewish biblical theology, this article suggests three models for the latter. The first one investigates the theologies of the different parts of the Hebrew Bible on their own, diachronically, without interference from later theology or practice. The second one focuses synchronically on the form of the Hebrew Bible as canonized, and is as objective as this basic biblical text allows. The third one is explicitly subjective and confessional, reading the Hebrew Bible in relation to the larger canon of Judaism, that is, the Oral Torah (= talmudic and midrashic literature). All three models have a legitimate place in the construction of a genuinely Jewish biblical theology, but they must not be confused. They all begin with different presuppositions and pursue different goals, but when properly distinguished, they can also complement one another, each exploring different aspects of the theology of the Jewish Bible.
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Neuser, Wilhelm, Paul Casey, and Lyle D. Bierma. "German Calvinism in the Confessional Age: The Covenant Theology of Caspar Olevianus." Sixteenth Century Journal 29, no. 3 (1998): 803. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2543698.
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Mykola, Heletiuk. "Main Aspects of Poly-Confessional Modern Ukraine From the View of Theology." Worldview-Philosophy-Religion 13 (February 13, 2019): 58–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.21272/wpr.2018.13.07.
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Smith, James K. A. "A Principle of Incarnation in Derrida’s ( Theologische? ) Jugendschriften : Towards a Confessional Theology." Modern Theology 18, no. 2 (April 2002): 217–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0025.00185.
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Lundmark, Mikael. "Vocation in Theology-Based Nursing Theories." Nursing Ethics 14, no. 6 (November 2007): 767–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969733007082117.
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By using the concepts of intrinsicality/extrinsicality as analytic tools, the theology-based nursing theories of Ann Bradshaw and Katie Eriksson are analyzed regarding their explicit and/or implicit understanding of vocation as a motivational factor for nursing. The results show that both theories view intrinsic values as guarantees against reducing nursing practice to mechanistic applications of techniques and as being a way of reinforcing a high ethical standard. The theories explicitly (Bradshaw) or implicitly (Eriksson) advocate a vocational understanding of nursing as being essential for nursing theories. Eriksson's theory has a potential for conceptualizing an understanding of extrinsic and intrinsic motivational factors for nursing but one weakness in the theory could be the risk of slipping over to moral judgments where intrinsic factors are valued as being superior to extrinsic. Bradshaw's theory is more complex and explicit in understanding the concept of vocation and is theologically more plausible, although also more confessional.
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Goodwin, Deborah L. "Herbert of Bosham and the Horizons of Twelfth-Century Exegesis." Traditio 58 (2003): 133–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0362152900003019.
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The twentieth century witnessed an efflorescence of interest in medieval exegesis, sparked by scholars across a wide spectrum of intellectual, methodological, and confessional commitments. Thanks in large measure to the work of Beryl Smalley (1905–1984) and Henri de Lubac (1896–1991), to name only two major exponents, the modern study of medieval exegesis achieved a depth and significance that fittingly complements the attention earlier generations had paid to scholastic theology.
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Chornomorets, Yuriy. "Prospects for the development of spiritual education in Ukraine." Filosofiya osvity. Philosophy of Education 26, no. 2 (June 25, 2021): 8–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.31874/2309-1606-2020-26-2-1.
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The article is devoted to a critical study of the vision of Ukrainian theologians of the possible prospects for the development of spiritual education in Ukraine in connection with the general changes expected by various theologians in the position of religion in the national public space, identifying what is really connected with the potential for further positive changes in Ukrainian theology and spiritual education. Ukrainian theologians and their supporters among researchers associate positive prospects for the development of spiritual education with new opportunities that the postmodern or post-postmodern worldview supposedly provides. The present is assessed as a post-secular state of sociality, as religion returns to the public sphere. In this regard, the author criticizes the dualism of the secular and the religious characteristic of modernity, the modern identification of the social with the secular, and the attribution of the religious exclusively to the private sphere of life. Ukrainian theologians and their supporters believe that the crisis of secularization theories and the return of religion to the public sphere themselves legitimize the existence of theology as a science and the recognition of spiritual education as part of the national educational space. Legal recognition of theology in 2014 opened up opportunities for the legitimization of theological ideas in general scientific discourse, but it turned out that even political theology and theology of education can only offer rather limited projects that develop the ideas of Western postmodern neo-Augustinianism. The situation is aggravated by the dominance in a significant number of seminaries and in a large number of specific branches of theology "theology of repetition", due to the inability to offer their own Christian democratic ideas, due to the refusal to create a social teaching that would meet the complex challenges of our time. The analysis shows that today those confessional systems of spiritual education in Ukraine, which are provided by leading research institutes, have sustainable development. These institutes create high-quality scientific products, set the general high level of teaching and learning, and train highly qualified personnel. Thus, it is the modern educational technology of the creation by a certain denomination (or their associations, as in the case of Protestants) of the main scientific and educational center, which acts in accordance with all national and world standards of education and science, that makes it possible to justify theology and create conditions for the development of all ordinary elements of confessional systems of spiritual education.
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Albinus, Lars. "En æstetisk filosofi om sanseoverskridende erfaringer." Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift 77, no. 4 (December 10, 2014): 317–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/dtt.v77i4.105728.
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The full doctoral thesis, The Beautiful Thinking, by the DanishHistorian of Ideas Dorthe Jørgensen, is an impressive and erudite workthat challenges modern theology to learn from philosophical aestheticsor, more specifically, a ‘metaphysics of experience’. Taking her point ofdeparture in Baumgarten’s concept of sensitive cognition, she sets out todevelop a philosophy which, contrary to the erratic strictures of empiricalscience, on the one hand, and superficial tendencies of the modern entertainment culture, on the other, is able to grasp experiences of ‘immanenttranscendence’ or ‘a surplus of meaning’. In this review article, however, I warn against the romanticizing implications of this endeavor inasmuch as the subject matter of theology is a confessional tradition rather than some form of experiential sensitivity.
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Martin, Lucinda. "More than Piety." Church History and Religious Culture 98, no. 1 (April 9, 2018): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18712428-09801024.
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Abstract Histories of Early Modern religion in Europe typically contrast the activities of ordained theologians with those of laity. The thought and writings of the former usually constitute “theology” and those of the latter “piety.” The result has long been a divided history. Confessional church historians have written histories that were essentially genealogies of (male) officer holders, while scholars of folklore, culture or literature analyzed the contributions of laity. Since the so-called cultural turn, the contributions of laity as organizers, transmitters and patrons of Early Modern religious movements are being recognized. What has been less studied are the intellectual achievements of laity, many of whom possessed deep knowledge of theology, history, and ancient languages and played important roles in Early Modern religious history. This article provides an overview of the main issues and the development of lay theology in the period and argues for increased study of the phenomenon.
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Storie, Deborah. "Reading between Places: Participatory Interpretive Praxis." Pacifica: Australasian Theological Studies 18, no. 3 (October 2005): 281–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1030570x0501800302.
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The Bible is often read in ecclesial contexts without considering the wider social and political consequences of biblical interpretations. In this essay, I contend that committed reflective participation is essential for responsible reading. I begin by using an autobiographical narrative to identify obstacles which prevented me from reading responsibly, and, to demonstrate how a range of experiences in Australia and Afghanistan enabled me to read differently. I then engage Francis Moloney's “An Adventure with Nicodemus” to propose that confessional biblical scholars might enhance the reading-capacity of other readers and encourage congregations to embrace the interested and contextual nature of biblical interpretation by sharing explicitly confessional readings which avoid objectivist/subjectivist dichotomies and testify to the authority of Scripture. I conclude by drawing on Stephen Bevans' praxis model of contextual theology and contemporary community development praxis to propose an “Animated Reading Process” which might be used to facilitate responsible reading.
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Chryssavgis, John. "The World as Sacrament: Insights into an Orthodox Worldview." Pacifica: Australasian Theological Studies 10, no. 1 (February 1997): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1030570x9701000104.
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If there exists today a vision able to transcend or transform national conflicts and confessional tensions, it may well be the appreciation of the world seen as sacrament. The earth that we all share reveals to us glimpses of wholeness and holiness. This paper examines, from the perspective of Orthodox theology and spirituality, the notions of sacrament and symbol, the concept of creation “out of nothing”, the doctrine of the Incarnation, and the relationship of the transcendent God to the world around us.
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Ingram, Elizabeth Morley. "Dressed in Borrowed Robes: The Making and Marketing of the Louvain Bible (1578)." Studies in Church History 38 (2004): 212–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400015837.
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This paper examines the transformation of a Protestant Geneva Bible into a widely used Catholic one. This surprising metamorphosis occurred in two stages: first, the publication in Paris in 1566 of a French Bible for Catholics by René Benoist, a member of the Paris Faculty of Theology; second, the marketing of this Bible as a product of the Louvain Faculty of Theology by the famous Antwerp printer, Christopher Plantin. While the relationship between the Paris and Antwerp editions is known to French specialists, the origin of the Antwerp edition has been (understandably) misdescribed in several English reference works. The relationship between the two editions seems worth rehearsing here for it touches on more general issues of Catholic attitudes towards vernacular Scripture, the migration of texts across confessional lines, and the power of printers.