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Conciliar Christology
- This article presents the concept of Conciliar Christology, the Christology taught at the first seven ecumenical councils of the Christian Church. It then discusses the motivations for considering Conciliar Christology when theorizing about the incarnation. These motivations include the his...
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- Timothy Pawl
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological methods
Messianic Jewish Theology
- This article explores Messianic Jewish theology, the theological foundation and doctrinal basis for Messianic Judaism. Messianic Jews live as Jews whilst accepting Jesus (Yeshua) as Messiah and Lord, forming Messianic congregations and synagogues. Messianic Jewish theology refers to the eme...
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- Richard Harvey
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
Bishops
- This article examines the phenomenon of bishops in Christian theology, church history, and the present role, work, and identity of a bishop. The article tries to answer the questions: ‘what does a bishop do?’ and ‘what is a bishop for?’ The approach to answering this question assesses scr...
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- Paul Avis
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Spiritual life and practices
European Literature and Christian Theology (1700–1900)
- This entry considers major developments in European literature, from the early Enlightenment to the end of the nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on the relation between literary production and Christian theological inquiry in a rapidly changing cultural and political environment.
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- Thomas Pfau
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Society and culture
Ecumenism and Church Relations
- Ecumenism refers to the wide and multifaceted movement to advance Christian fellowship and the unity of the church. The contemporary ecumenical movement was preceded by nineteenth-century missionary and youth movements mobilizing Christians from various church backgrounds. Ecumenical pray...
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- Minna Hietamäki
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
Performing Arts and Embodiment in Christian Theology
- Across the geographical breadth and temporal depth of Christianity, theology and the performing arts have been natural partners, suspect allies, committed enemies, and passionate friends. Performing arts are bodily actions in time and space. Christian worship becomes the embodied actions of...
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- Todd E. Johnson and Shannon Craigo-Snell
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Society and culture
Music in the Western Theological Tradition
- This entry examines the ways in which Christian theology has shaped and elucidated the activities of music-making and music-hearing, and in turn how musical practices have been appropriated to advance the enterprise of theology. Attention is focused primarily (though not exclusively) on textl...
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- Jeremy Begbie
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Society and culture
Systematic Theology in the Nordic Countries after 1945
- Christian systematic theologies in the Nordic countries share common traits in terms of their Lutheran heritage and the close relationship between church and state (‘folk-church’) organizations that have dominated church life and theological reasoning up until the present. Although internat...
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- Jan-Olav Henriksen
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
The Theology of the Book of Common Prayer
- This article describes the doctrines that informed and are expressed by the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England, focusing on the 1662 recension, which has been a primary vehicle for theological reflection and debate within the Church of England and Anglicanism more broadly. The a...
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- Drew Nathaniel Keane
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Spiritual life and practices
Creation
- Popular understandings of the Christian doctrine of creation are subject to two common misconceptions. Firstly, it is often viewed as a scientific hypothesis or historical claim about the origin of the world. Secondly, it tends for this reason to be treated as less a matter of faith (and th...
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- Ian A. McFarland
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Being and existence
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