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McEntire, Jeffrey L. "Confessions of ‘the Weak’: The Ecclesiastical Hindrance of Determinism in Silence." Exchange 49, no. 2 (2020): 164–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1572543x-12341560.

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Abstract Christ imagery in Silence represents Endō’s intentional progression from ‘father-religion’ to ‘mother-religion’. This paper explicates the former as a distortive ideological belief—the determinism of the ‘strong’ and ‘weak’—that conveys Endō’s aversion for institutionalized and paternal aspects of Christianity; that sows feelings of superiority toward ‘the weak’ in Rodrigues (revealed especially as he administers confession); and that anthropomorphizes as an internal voice that accuses and haunts with fears of inadequacy. Christ’s immediacy through and sympathy for universal sufferi

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Helleman, Wendy Elgersma. "Marius Victorinus on the Stigmata of the Apostle Paul (Gal 6:17)." Vox Patrum 90 (June 15, 2024): 57–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.31743/vp.16845.

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This discussion of the fourth-century commentary of Marius Victorinus on Paul’s epistle to the Galatians serves as a critical witness to late ancient understanding of Paul’s self-identification with the stigmata of Christ (of Gal 6:17), as the marks of his humiliating death on the cross. Echoing Paul on “being crucified with Christ”, Victorinus exhorted Christians to follow that example in suffering for their faith, warning them that suffering is inevitable. The present textual study uses linguistic, grammatical, rhetorical, and socio-historical analysis, particularly on the key terms, stigmat

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Punt, Jeremy. "The Bible, Its Status and African Christian Theologies: Foundational Document or Stumbling Block?" Religion and Theology 5, no. 3 (1998): 265–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157430198x00183.

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AbstractThe relationship between the Bible and Christianity, including Christian theology, is traditionally strong and undisputed; however, in Christian theology in Africa, as elsewhere, the status of the biblical texts is contested. A brief consideration of the Bible as 'canon' leads to a broader discussion of how the Bible has to a certain extent become a 'problem' in African theology also, both because of theological claims made about its status, and - and in conjunction with - its perceived complicity in justifying human suffering and hardship. The legacy of the Bible as legitimating agent

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Sukru, Burbar. "The Shamanism in Altai and Tuva from past to present: Universal and Local Aspects." Turkic Studies Journal 4, no. 2 (2022): 22–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.32523/2664-5157-2022-2-22-34.

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Shamanism is a system composed of various elements of culture and belief, created by people to understand life and come to grips with what is happening around them. It has an elaborate structure in terms of existing in well-rounded communities. It has various features that have different aspects compared to the different times and conditions of the society. It also adopts local beliefs and the beliefs of the surrounding tribes. Shamanism allows everyone to have a religious concept and to have his or her own God or Gods. The technique of trance, also called «ecstasy», is an essential part. It i

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Derson, I. Ketut Subagiasta, and Ida Bagus Dharmika. "Shifting on Usik Liau game in Wara ceremony towards Hindu Kaharingan society of Dayak Dusun." International research journal of management, IT and social sciences 5, no. 4 (2018): 98–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.21744/irjmis.v5n4.271.

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The Hindu Kaharingan society of Dayak Dusun in South Barito watershed has a very strong divine insight as reflected in the aspects of their lives. The religion was not in the major religions, Islam, Christianity, Catholicism, Buddhism, and Hinduism. It was not limited to the world of its tribal environment. It was related to the essential for its own ancestors. Hindu doctrine that was often seen generally regarding the implementation of the religious ceremonies. It was called yadnya. It defined as the sacred sacrifices were conducted sincerely. Due to the diversity for each activity, it was do

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Park, Cheonghwan, and Kyungrae Kim. "Covid-19 and Korean Buddhism: Assessing the Impact of South Korea’s Coronavirus Epidemic on the Future of Its Buddhist Community." Religions 12, no. 3 (2021): 147. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12030147.

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While the Covid-19 pandemic has altered many aspects of life in South Korea over 2020, its impact on South Korea’s religious landscape has been enormous as the country’s three major religions (Catholicism, Buddhism, and Protestant Christianity) have suffered considerable loses in both their income and membership. Despite these challenges, however, Buddhism’s public image has actually improved since the start of the epidemic due to the rapid and proactive responses of the nation’s largest Buddhist organization, the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism (K. Daehan bulgyo jogyejong). This article critic

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Longkumer, Bendangrenla S. "Bonhoeffer’s Theology of Resistance in the Context of Global Justice." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 8, no. 1 (2023): 249–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.81.31.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German philosopher and theologian whole lived during the Nazi Germany era, was a “lone voice in the wilderness” whose work on the theology of sociality advocated for a community which he calls the “visible community” and was “beyond all earthly ties”. In the Nazi Germany context, it ran counter current to the German nationalist propaganda of the volk which had aggressively made its way into all aspects of the German society including the church. Bonhoeffer’s theology of sociality opens up the possibility of Christianity as not merely a religious institution but a movem

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Rhee, Helen. "Illness, Pain, and Health Care in Early Christianity." Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 75, no. 2 (2023): 130–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.56315/pscf9-23rhee.

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ILLNESS, PAIN, AND HEALTH CARE IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY by Helen Rhee. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing, 2022. 367 pages. Hardcover; $49.99. ISBN: 9780802876843. *"The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head." --William Osler (1849-1919) *Helen Rhee, professor of the History of Christianity at Westmont College, has encapsulated this famous saying in her recent book, Illness, Pain, and Health Care in Early Christianity by demonstrating how partially objective medicine as an early science co-

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Tolstykh, Vladislav. "Cultural Foundations and Mythological Nature of Human Rights." Russian Law Journal 8, no. 2 (2020): 104–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.17589/2309-8678-2020-8-2-104-119.

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The author claims that the concept of human rights arose on European soil as a result of certain cultural, political, and economic factors. Its primary base is formed by Christian ideas, secularized with the dissolution of feudalism and the spread of capitalism. In particular, this concept synthesized the Christian ideas of God’s likeness of man and the omnipresence of God: being god-like, man, like God, may be present in all things, though not in all at once. The main beneficiary was the bourgeoisie, who used personal rights to destroy feudal institutions, political rights to establish contro

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Young, Elijah. "Christianity, Democracy, and Suffering in Burma." International Bulletin of Mission Research 48, no. 2 (2024): 180–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23969393231165248.

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This article explores why and how Burmese Christians have intensely resisted the return of military tyranny, documents the disastrous ramifications of the deepening political crisis and rising violence for Christians, and presents how churches have cared for one another and helped each other to survive. In terms of number, size, and magnitude, this national catastrophe is historically unprecedented. With other Burmese, Christians have resisted the junta, primarily because, after enduring over half a century of viciousness under military rule, they cannot think of a future without democracy and

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Brettler, Marc, and Amy-Jill Levine. "Isaiah’s Suffering Servant: Before and After Christianity." Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 73, no. 2 (2019): 158–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020964318820594.

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The so-called “Suffering Servant” of Isaiah 52:15–53:12 takes on new meaning in each of his settings, from the exilic or early post-exilic community of Deutero-Isaiah, to the repurposing of this figure by the author of Daniel, mid-second century BCE during the persecutions of Jews by Antiochus IV Epiphanes, through the numerous New Testament citations of and allusions to Jesus as fulfilling Isaiah’s predictions concerning this servant, and on to several post-biblical Jewish understandings of this enigmatic figure. In showing how and why the servant receives such numerous readings, we demonstra

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Mijatović, Franjo. "(In)active God—Coping with Suffering and Pain from the Perspective of Christianity." Religions 12, no. 11 (2021): 939. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12110939.

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Colloquially, suffering and pain are usually and exclusively concerned with the human body. Pain and suffering are clearly objective facts, as well as lasting and memorable experiences. Are suffering and pain purely biological phenomena and neurological states, or can they be interpreted by culture, religion, philosophy, sociology, Christianity, etc.? To what extent can it, therefore, be said that the body is sufficiently cognitively, motorically, and sensibly equipped to accept or reject unpleasant situations. Except biological, neurological, and medical, i.e., physical, views about suffering

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Mellor, Philip A. "Self and Suffering: Deconstruction and Reflexive Definition in Buddhism and Christianity." Religious Studies 27, no. 1 (1991): 49–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034412500001311.

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In a study of the religious significance of food to medieval woman, Caroline Walker Bynum argues that the ascetic practices embraced by these women are signs of a commitment to explore the religious potentialities of the body rather than being indications of a hostile attitude to the flesh. She comments that belief in the ‘salvific potential of suffering flesh (both our's and God's)’ differentiates Christianity from other world religions, since it is a ‘characteristically Christian idea that the bodily suffering of one person can be substituted for the suffering of another through prayer, purg

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Weiping, Wang. "Reflections on the Research of Chinese Christian’s View of Suffering Based upon Fusion of Horizons: Understanding and Reviewing “Research on Christian’s View of Suffering”." International Journal of Sino-Western Studies, no. 26 (May 28, 2024): 75–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.37819/ijsws.26.1813.

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Humans have always tried to understand suffering as a condition of existence, and grasping the notion of suffering is central to understanding a culture. "A Study of the Christian Concept of Suffering" employs the method of religious anthropology to explore the Christian understanding of suffering from the dimensions of reason, faith, and reality, revealing that the actual concept of suffering among Chinese Christians is a result of the integration of Chinese traditional culture with Christian cultural perspectives. Comparing the understanding of suffering in traditional Chinese culture with t

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Singgih, Emanuel Gerrit. "Suffering as Ground for Religious Tolerance." Exchange 45, no. 2 (2016): 111–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1572543x-12341396.

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Religions often offered themselves as answers to suffering. Not infrequently the adherents of a certain religion consider the answer of their own religion to suffering to be the best, as it is based on one’s truth-claim. Recently in South-East Asia, this kind of truth-claim can be detected also in the phenomena of ‘commodification of religions’ done by various groups within Christianity, Buddhism and Islam, thus causing rivalry and intolerance. It was Paul Knitter who first describes global suffering, or ‘the pain of the world’ as religious challenge for all religions. In Indonesia, the recent

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Francisco, Jose Mario C. "Challenges of Dutertismo for Philippine Christianity." International Journal of Asian Christianity 4, no. 1 (2021): 145–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/25424246-04010008.

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Abstract This paper concentrates on populism’s functional relationship with religion during times of crisis and how religion is instrumentalized for populist causes. Critical analysis of Philippine populism under President Rodrigo Duterte highlights often-overlooked nuances regarding populism as both disruption and reinforcement of traditional politics and its inherent institutional and religious dimensions. Though Dutertismo disrupts Manila-centric power, it reinforces traditional politics rooted in the Philippine political and cultural ethos. Moreover, because of populism’s institutional and

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Hamilton, Stephen James. "Bonhoeffer’s “Religionless Christianity” and the Evangelical Rejection of “Religion”:A Comparison." Theology Today 75, no. 2 (2018): 167–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0040573618783421.

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The following article compares Bonhoeffer’s writings on “religionless Christianity” with the opinion, common among evangelicals, that Christianity is not about “religion,” based on a study of members of the Vineyard Church in T.M. Lurhmann’s When God Talks Back. While there are important similarities between Bonhoeffer and the evangelical rejection of religion, the article argues that the two theologies part ways on a number of points, most importantly concerning the theology of suffering.

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Bobyreva, Ekaterina, Olga Dmitrieva, Tatyana Gonnova, and Anna Oganesyan. "Suffering in world religions within paradigm of modern information." SHS Web of Conferences 109 (2021): 01010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202110901010.

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Any type of discourse, along with its characteristic concepts, operates with its own values. The basis of religious discourse form universal values providing moral guidelines that represent a standard for people of different cultures and eras, which are associated with the ideals of justice and are timeless. Among the universal are cultural, social and moral values. The bulk of religious values form cultural ones in any modern society. Religious beliefs form inner culture of a person. Some religious values can be referred as social and include: meaningful (meaning of life, happiness), universa

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Dewantara, Agustinus Wisnu. "MANUSIA BERAGAMA MEMAKNAI PENDERITAAN." JPAK: Jurnal Pendidikan Agama Katolik 20, no. 1 (2020): 14–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.34150/jpak.v20i1.252.

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Suffering is the reality of religious people, so suffering is an important theme of almost all religions. The negative and depressed color of suffering invites religions to discuss it. Christianity does not see it as fatalistic, but regards suffering as the constitutive reality of all humans. All human beings must suffer, but faith makes humans have a different perspective in reacting to it. This paper wishes to examine the theme of suffering with hermeneutic studies. The research model used in this paper is a qualitative model with as much as possible using hermeneutics by comparing several t

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Evlampiev, Igor I., and Vladimir N. Smirnov. "Dostoevsky's Christianity." RUDN Journal of Philosophy 25, no. 1 (2021): 44–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-2302-2021-25-1-44-58.

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The article refutes the widespread view that Dostoevsky's Christian beliefs were strictly Orthodox. It is proved that Dostoevsky's religious and philosophical searches' central tendency is the criticism of historical, ecclesiastical Christianity as a false, distorted form of the teaching of Jesus Christ and the desire to restore this teaching in its original purity. Modern researchers of the history of early Christianity find more and more arguments in favor of the fact that the actual teaching of Jesus Christ is contained in that religious movement, which the church called the Gnostic heresy.

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Liu, Qi. "A Close Look into an Immigrant Workers' Church in Beijing." Nova Religio 12, no. 4 (2009): 91–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2009.12.4.91.

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Christianity, although a worldwide religious tradition, is counted as a minority in the People's Republic of China (PRC), both by the Christians themselves and by non-believers. "House churches" in the PRC, being illegal and thus underground, are the "minority in a minority." Based on two years of participant-observation, I give a description of the beliefs and rituals of an immigrant workers' Protestant house church system in Beijing. Belief in the Christian God's ability to provide relief from suffering by performing earthly miracles and by bringing the faithful to eternal life in heaven are

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Eggemeier, Matthew. "Christianity or Nihilism? The Apocalyptic Discourses of Johann Baptist Metz and Friedrich Nietzsche." Horizons 39, no. 1 (2012): 7–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0360966900008513.

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ABSTRACTThis paper explores the apocalyptic discourses of Johann Baptist Metz and Friedrich Nietzsche, examining in particular Metz's juxtaposition of Nietzsche's approach to time as eternal recurrence with biblical apocalyptic's approach to time with an end. While framing his criticism of Nietzsche in terms of these differing approaches to time, Metz's opposition focuses on Nietzsche's affirmation of even the most brutal experiences of suffering in the world as mere moments in the innocence of becoming. In contrast to attempts in Western thought to either justify (Leibniz, Hegel) or affirm (N

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Pieris, Rasika. "Widowhood and Religious Perception." International Journal of Asian Christianity 1, no. 2 (2018): 307–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/25424246-00102008.

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This article is based on the author’s doctoral thesis, Breaking the Barriers: A Reflection on Suffering in Buddhism and Christianity in the Perspectives of War-widows in Sri Lanka. 1 Using theoretical and empirical lines of investigation it attempts to discover the theological possibilities, challenges and relevance of the survival strategies of Buddhist and Christian war-widows by critically describing, analysing, interpreting and exploring an inter-relatedness in their situations, and relating these findings to existing systematic theological concepts. Since the research is also empirical, i

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Correri, Nicole. "Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shi‘ism." American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 35, no. 4 (2018): 56–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajiss.v35i4.470.

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Matthew Pierce’s first book, Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shi‘ism, is a unique scholarly work about Ithnā Ash‘arī Shī‘ism and the development of communal identity. His main argument in this book is that the Shi‘a religious identity was shaped over time based on collective social memory and specific biographical depictions of spiritual leadership centered on the sacredness of the Prophet Muhammad and his family, the ahl al-bayt. While much scholarship on Shi‘ism is centered on the topics of succession, theological doctrines, or the specific rituals of ‘Ashura, Pierce focus

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Correri, Nicole. "Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shi‘ism." American Journal of Islam and Society 35, no. 4 (2018): 56–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i4.470.

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Matthew Pierce’s first book, Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shi‘ism, is a unique scholarly work about Ithnā Ash‘arī Shī‘ism and the development of communal identity. His main argument in this book is that the Shi‘a religious identity was shaped over time based on collective social memory and specific biographical depictions of spiritual leadership centered on the sacredness of the Prophet Muhammad and his family, the ahl al-bayt. While much scholarship on Shi‘ism is centered on the topics of succession, theological doctrines, or the specific rituals of ‘Ashura, Pierce focus

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Lazarus-Yafeh, Hava. "Some Neglected Aspects of Medieval Muslim Polemics against Christianity." Harvard Theological Review 89, no. 1 (1996): 61–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017816000031813.

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Muslim medieval authors were fascinated with religious issues, as the corpus of Arabic literature clearly shows. They were extremely curious about other religions and made intense efforts to describe and understand them. A special brand of Arabic literature—theMilal wa-Niḥal(“Religions and Sects”) heresiographies—dealt extensively with different sects and theological groups within Islam as well as with other religions and denominations: pagan, Zoroastrian, Jewish, Christian, Hindu, and others. Of course, most of the heresiographies were written in a polemical tone (sometimes a harsh one, like

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Corten, André. "Souffrances sociales, parler ordinaire, imaginaires religieux et expression politique." Social Compass 58, no. 2 (2011): 143–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0037768611402609.

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Suffering has always been intimately related to speech and no power has been able to separate it from ordinary language. However, in the last 15 years, be it in the fields of medicine, anthropology, humanitarian work or religious studies, the discourse on social suffering has become an expert’s discourse. Having held together religion in both its popular and learned forms, Christianity has long prevented this separation. Paradoxically, the proselytism that characterizes evangelical movements constitutes a new way of resisting this separation of suffering from ordinary language. Conformist in t

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Morgan, Robert. "Historical and Canonical Aspects of a New Testament Theology." Biblical Interpretation 11, no. 3 (2003): 629–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156851503790507954.

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AbstractIn nineteenth-century discussions of the scope and methods of New Testament theology more attention was paid to the new historical methods than to the reasons for this discipline. Its independence from dogmatics was new, but it was the role of Scripture in the life of the Church which made it important in educating clergy. Theological interpretation of any passage of Scripture might serve as a source of Christian faith and theology, but for Scripture to be a norm, a survey of the whole New Testament is needed. New Testament theologies using historical exegesis and attending to all the

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Singh, David Emmanuel. "Christianity and Islam: Meekness-Servanthood and Faith as Polity-Majesty." International Journal of Asian Christianity 5, no. 2 (2022): 163–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/25424246-05020002.

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Abstract Christianity has had and continues to have elements of physical this worldly majesty, and one can find ample examples of the collusion of the state with faith but, arguably, it is not a polity for power. It is a way that invites people to follow Christ in his redemptive suffering for others. Islam too, has the Meccan phase of powerless witness. Its phase as a polity began in Medina. Muhammad in Mecca was an embodiment of prophetic service, accompanied by suffering. He would have seen himself as a prophet like Moses (and others). This changed with the ensuing battles for the faith and

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Yang, Lucinda. "Aspects of Pentecostal Christianity in Zimbabwe, by Lovemore Togarasei (ed.)." Pneuma 41, no. 2 (2019): 363–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700747-04102030.

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Mary Philip, Daphne. "Christianity and Spirituality in Healthcare." Journal of Quality in Health Care & Economics 5, no. 3 (2022): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.23880/jqhe-16000274.

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According to the American Medical Association, ‘Health care is a fundamental human good because it affects our opportunity to pursue life goals, reduces our pain and suffering, helps prevent premature loss of life, and provides information needed to plan for our lives.’ Christianity is the world’s largest religion and most widely diffused of all faiths stemming from the life teachings of Jesus Christ. Religion, medicine, and healthcare have always been intertwined from history. Dating back throughout the Middle Ages and up to the French Revolution, physicians were often clergy. The first hospi

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Blanes, Ruy Llera. "Remembering and Suffering: Memory and Shifting Allegiances in the Angolan Tokoist Church." Exchange 38, no. 2 (2009): 161–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157254309x425391.

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AbstractIn this article I offer a historical and ethnographic account of the Angolan 'Tokoist church'. I start by underlining the reasons behind its 'forgotten history' in terms of academic debates on African Christianity, and then discuss its place within the 'Congo prophet paradigm'. This historical approach opens ground for the discussion between the different doctrinal and ideological tensions (the place of Bakongo ethnicity and Angolan nationality) that motivated its particular institutional growth — tensions and conflicts that are still in play in the recent developments of the church in

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Kim, Kirsteen. "Christianity’s Role in the Modernization and Revitalization of Korean Society in the Twentieth-Century." International Journal of Public Theology 4, no. 2 (2010): 212–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156973210x491903.

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AbstractThe development of South Korea and its growth to become the world’s eleventh largest economy has been accompanied by the introduction of Christianity and its increase to become the major religious group, to which nearly thirty per cent of the population are affiliated. This article probes the connection between these two spectacular examples of development; economic and religious. By highlighting moments or episodes of Christian contribution to aspects of development in Korean history and linking these to relevant aspects of Korean Christian theology, there is shown to be a constructiv

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Eaton, Heather. "Subjectivity and Suffering: Transgenic Animals, Christianity, and the need to Re-evaluate." Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology 14, no. 1 (2010): 26–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853510x498041.

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AbstractThe many facets of transgenic animals are not addressed by secular or religious voices, and for many reasons; ignorance, absence of public debate, acceleration of the research, and apathy towards animals. There is a need to understand the basic parameters of transgenic animal research. Second, it is important to investigate Christian actual and potential responses, as well as grapple with the strengths and limits. Third, work in transgenic animals comes out of a deprived affective, aesthetic and ethical milieu where there is no rapport with animals as inherent subjects. With new insigh

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Kaunda, Chammah J. "World Christianity as ‘Human Universal Making’ Activity: The Contribution of African Christian Potential." Expository Times 131, no. 11 (2020): 480–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0014524620946978.

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The study engages Alain Badiou’s philosophical concept of ‘immanent exception’ to establish the special potential embedded in African Christianity for engendering human universal (Umuntu). It argues that African Christian experiences inform their interpretations of Jesus Christ as the answer to all human existential concerns. This approach forces them to ‘exceed’ in the locations and spaces of their imaginations of suffering by embracing ambivalent localizations (through a constant oscillation between local and un-local) in search to transcend, not escape, in thought and practice their negativ

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Handaric, Mihai. "Aspects related to the influence of Christianity on the Society." Randwick International of Social Science Journal 2, no. 2 (2021): 58–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.47175/rissj.v2i2.215.

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In this paper the author analyzes the influence of Christianity on society. There will be demonstrated that through its structure, man was created to live in the community. He discovers himself by relating to the world surrounding him, as it is argued by Martin Heidegger, and Martin Buber. Here we also include the relationship with the transcendent. The philosophical and sociological arguments help us understand the influence Christianity had on European society. The religion of the European nations had a strong influence on the civilization of the continent and the world. Researchers have com

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Cahill, Lisa Sowie. "Kingdom and Cross." Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 50, no. 2 (1996): 156–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002096439605000205.

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The Bible guides Christian ethics by showing how Jesus and early Christianity transformed the moral conventions of first-century Greco-Roman society by making them more inclusive and compassionate. This is the one side of the coin. The other side, however, is that the Bible also attests to the problem of the existence of evil and suffering in human life. In Paul's theology of cross and resurrection, Christian ethicists confront the ineradicable nature of this problem and the need to identify with those who must suffer.

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Hurlbut, D. Dmitri. "Review: Aspects of Pentecostal Christianity in Zimbabwe, edited by Lovemore Togarasei." Nova Religio 23, no. 4 (2020): 141–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2020.23.4.141.

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Băncilă, Ionuț Daniel. "Esotericism in Romanian Religious History." Aries 23, no. 1 (2023): 39–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700593-02301003.

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Abstract As an expression of the complex global religious entanglements, esoteric knowledge did appeal also to Eastern Europe, in Romania being particularly imprinted by the local religious discourses and practices characteristic to Orthodox Christianity. This paper attempts to briefly sketch the indigenization of esoteric “currents” such as alchemy, spiritualism, Theosophy, Anthroposophy, Traditionalism etc. in Romania. Apart from these historical formations, various aspects of the contemporary occulture in Romania are also considered, especially the Orthodox occulture.

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Panjaitan, Michael Yoel, I. Nyoman Suarsana, and I. Ketut Kaler. "Tradisi Rabo-Rabo: Sebuah Cerminan Ekspresi Identitas Komunitas Mardijkers di Kampung Tugu, Kelurahan Semper Barat, Jakarta Utara." Sunari Penjor : Journal of Anthropology 8, no. 1 (2024): 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.24843/sp.2024.v8.i01.p04.

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Tugu community settlement are located in Semper Barat District, Jakarta Utara. Tugu community preserve the cultural expressions, specifically cultural activity that connects to Portuguese authentic tradition such as Rabo-Rabo. The uniqueness of the tradition are its existence lies beyond the plurality and modernity of Jakarta. Rabo-Rabo tradition are held occasionally when Christmas and new year celebration, the nuance of this tradition are corresponded with the Christianity and firmly grasp by Mardijkers strong kinship (social aspects), kerontjong music (art aspect), Christianity practices (r

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Yang, Xiaoli. "Contemplative Aspects of Pentecostal Spirituality." Journal of Pentecostal Theology 28, no. 1 (2019): 123–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17455251-02702008.

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How is the dynamic power of the Holy Spirit working through contemplative aspects of Pentecostal spirituality in Asia where Christianity thrives in a hostile environment today? Are there any insights that Pentecostal churches of the Global North can learn and experience deeper transformation through the Holy Spirit in a post-Christian world? This article shares a recent experience of a retreat with a group of Asian Pentecostal pastors. It describes how they, both individually and as a group, encountered God through contemplative practice within the praxis of their spiritual tradition. Drawing

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Appiah, Simon Kofi. "Thinking Africa in Postmission Theology: Implications for Global Theological Discourse." Exchange 51, no. 4 (2022): 343–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1572543x-bja10007.

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Abstract It is necessary to consider the place of Africa in postmission theology, described here as ‘postmissionality,’ because of the high Christian percentage of the African population. This demography means that Africa is now, more than ever before, of great significance to global Christianity. In the same vein, it reveals that Christianity is an important variable in the development of Africa. The relevance of this dialogical relationship between Africa and Christianity extends beyond Africa into global Christianity, which is today experienced as the innovative realization of the Christian

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Engelke, Matthew, and Frans J. Verstraelen. "Zimbabwean Realities and Christian Responses: Contemporary Aspects of Christianity in Zimbabwe." Journal of Religion in Africa 30, no. 4 (2000): 512. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1581596.

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Hughes, Rebecca C. "Expanding the Bounds of Christianity and Feminism." Journal of Religion in Africa 52, no. 1-2 (2022): 22–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340223.

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Abstract As headmistress of the London Missionary Society’s Girls’ Boarding School from 1915–1940 in Mbereshi, Zambia, Mabel Shaw (1889–1973) created an innovative educational programme that embraced local culture and empowered women. Shaw drew from theological, anthropological, and feminist perspectives to guide her understanding of Bemba culture. Shaw built upon fulfilment theology with its premise that all religions had an element of God’s truth in them. In doing so, Shaw differentiated Western culture from Christian culture, creating space to accommodate practices such as ancestor venerati

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Avis, Paul. "Stephen Sykes and the Essence of Christianity." Ecclesiology 15, no. 1 (2019): 34–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17455316-01501006.

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Stephen Sykes chastised English (especially Anglican) theology for its neglect of systematic and doctrinal theology and worked for its revival. He viewed the liberal tendency in English theology in the 1960s and 1970s as attributable, at least in part, to lack of doctrinal rigour and to ecclesiastical woolliness. Sykes contributed to methodological reflection on systematic theology, but his occasional forays into systematics were not his major efforts. However, one systematic theological topic to which Sykes made a significant contribution was the question of the essence of Christianity, which

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Blackburn, Vivienne. "Albert Camus: The challenge of the unbeliever." Scottish Journal of Theology 64, no. 3 (2011): 313–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930611000147.

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AbstractAlbert Camus (1913–60), novelist, essayist, journalist and member of the French Resistance, reflected in his work the turbulent period through which he lived. His powerful portrayal of a world dominated by violence and suffering resonates with us today. An atheist, Camus had been, as a young man, drawn to the Christian faith: his postgraduate thesis was on the development of early Christianity. The thesis reveals the nature of the attraction which the faith held for Camus, and the unresolved problems which prevented him from embracing it. In maturity, Camus sought rather to convince fe

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Olsson, Hans. "Narratives of Change: Healing and Pentecostal Belonging in Zanzibar." Mission Studies 35, no. 2 (2018): 225–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341568.

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AbstractIn the predominantly Muslim context of Zanzibar, Pentecostal Christianity is slowly on the rise as a result of an influx of labor migrants from mainland Tanzania. A paramount feature in these churches is the provision of divine healing and deliverance from spiritual affliction. This article analyses how narratives of healing in one of Zanzibar’s major Pentecostal churches, the City Christian Center, influence how religious belonging is negotiated and manifested. Focusing on Zanzibar-born Pentecostals with Roman Catholic backgrounds, the analysis suggests that healing and practices cond

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Cherenkov, Mychailo. "Human rights, "orthodoxy" and "heresy": philosophical and religious framework of interpretations." Religious Freedom 1, no. 19 (2016): 60–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.32420/rs.2016.19.1.925.

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Post-secularism activates the role of religions in problematic and redefining seemingly inviolable foundations, axial ideas, key modernist concepts, including "human rights." It is worth noting that religious leaders and theologians evaluate "human rights" not only externally - as a political theory, ideology or even a separate religion, but each time they raise the question of the internal connection between Christianity and "human rights", which can acquire forms as "Orthodoxy", and "heresy". Attention to this connection, its forms and interpretations is exacerbated to the extent that the mo

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Kobyliński, Andrzej. "Ethical Aspects of the Prosperity Gospel in the Light of the Arguments Presented by Antonio Spadaro and Marcelo Figueroa." Religions 12, no. 11 (2021): 996. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12110996.

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The main aim of the article is to analyze the Prosperity Gospel as an important element of the contemporary pentecostalization of Christianity. The essence of this global process is the emergence of thousands of new Pentecostal denominations and the transformation of other traditional churches into a single, syncretic variety of charismatic Christianity on a global scale. Pentecostal religiosity is characterized, among other things, by prayer in tongues, miracles, exorcisms, healing services, etc. Another key element of this new syncretic religiosity is the Prosperity Gospel which represents t

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Korostichenko, Ekaterina. "Christian view on treating animals: theological criticism of P. Singer." St. Tikhons' University Review 104 (December 29, 2022): 46–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.15382/sturi2022104.46-67.

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P. Singer is called one of the most influential living philosophers in the world, and one of the most controversial. The author of "Animal Liberation", "Practical Ethics", "Famine, Affluence, and Morality" created his own project of preference utilitarianism, in which he placed animals as moral subjects equal to man. In this, he questions Christian anthropocentrism: a human in his system of ethics is intrinsically no better than a chimpanzee or a dog. He recognizes the uniqueness of all species, speaking out against speciesism (discrimination on grounds of species). Singer's ethics is complete

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