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Grace in Roman Catholic Theology
- Grace may be described as the gratuitous self-communication of God through Christ in the Holy Spirit. The term also refers to the living, actual, and continuous experience humans have of this saving event. In a wholly unmerited way, the Spirit of the risen Christ becomes present in the chur...
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- Paul O’Callaghan and Catalina Vial de Amesti
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Being and existence
Sacraments and Signs in the Roman Catholic Tradition
- This article works to establish a conceptual definition for sacraments in relation to the concept of sign within the Roman Catholic Christian tradition. In the Catholic tradition, seven sacraments are recognized: baptism, confirmation, Eucharist, penance, anointing, holy orders, and marriag...
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- Reginald Lynch O.P.
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Spiritual life and practices
Music and Orthodox Theology
- The expression of theology by means of music in the Orthodox Church is something that has been discussed and regulated since the Patristic era, which itself takes as its basis the Psalms and the Gospels. The way in which this expression has been achieved practically, however, has varied consi...
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- Ivan Moody
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Spiritual life and practices
Visual Arts and Christian Theology
- Christianity is sometimes described as a ‘religion of the book’, but visual art has long been used by Christians alongside and in addition to words, to express their experiences of and reflections about God. Its particular significance within some Christian contexts has been justified on ch...
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- Chloë Reddaway and Ben Quash
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Society and culture
European Literature and Christian Theology (1900–present)
- This entry considers the relation between literature and Christian theology in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Europe, with attention principally given to those writers whose oeuvre takes up questions central to theology (in particular soteriology, eschatology, ecclesiology, creat...
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- Thomas Pfau
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Society and culture
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
Queer Theology
- This entry establishes the contested nature of ‘queer’ as a term and provides an overview of some significant theoretical perspectives on queerness. It then outlines the emergence of queer Christian theology as it developed from both theological reflections on LGBT+ sexuality and gender var...
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- Jack Slater and Susannah Cornwall
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological methods
Minjung Theology
- This article explores Christian liberation theology in the Korean context, namely minjungsinhak, literally meaning ‘people’s theology’, discussing its history, characteristics, recent developments, and implications. This article shows how the new theology arose as a theological tradition in...
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- Andrew Eungi Kim and Jongman Kim
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
Sin
- In the Christian tradition, sin may refer to an act or state that is contrary to God or God’s purposes, such as God’s commands, laws, covenants, or unitive purposes. When speaking of sin, one could classify sins into sins against God, sins against oneself, and sins against others. Further, ...
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- Parker Haratine
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Being and existence, Ethics
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