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  2. Theology and Cultural Evolution

    Cultural evolution is a broad theoretical framework that is applied to several disciplinary fields to stress the role that non-genetic information plays in configuring processes of evolution and adaptation, for animals, humans, and societies. Given the interrelationship between genes and...
    Author
    Lluis Oviedo
    Faith tradition
    Christianity
    Topics
    Society and culture

  3. Secularization in Modern Jewish Thought

    This article discusses the main challenges that secularization presented to Judaism and to Jewish thought, and maps the key strategies and central thinkers who responded to this challenge, from the eighteenth century up to the turn of the twenty-first. Attention is also given to some secular ...
    Author
    Zohar Maor and Ori Werdiger
    Faith tradition
    Judaism
    Topics
    Society and culture

  4. The Religious Meaning of Language in Judaic Culture

    Judaic cultures have a commitment to language that is exceptional. Language practices – the reading and writing of scrolls and books, their interpretation as commentaries on commentaries, engaged with the letter both of text and as act – is central to Judaic conduct, thought, study, worship, ...
    Author
    Shira Wolosky
    Faith tradition
    Judaism
    Topics
    Society and culture

  5. 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...
    Author
    Thomas Pfau
    Faith tradition
    Christianity
    Topics
    Society and culture

  6. Film and Christian Theology

    This article puts forward a robust historically-informed analysis of the current state of Christian theology and film discourse, establishing the necessary conditions not only for making sense of how the field has developed over time but also for imagining where it might go in the future. I...
    Author
    Robert K. Johnston and Kutter Callaway
    Faith tradition
    Christianity
    Topics
    Society and culture

  7. 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.
    Author
    Thomas Pfau
    Faith tradition
    Christianity
    Topics
    Society and culture

  8. Architecture and Christian Theology

    There is an obvious convergence, in the spaces used for Christian worship, between the practice of architecture and the concerns of Christian theology. Even the most utilitarian of spaces – an old warehouse, a community hall, a converted office building – when adapted for use in Christian w...
    Author
    Murray Rae
    Faith tradition
    Christianity
    Topics
    Society and culture

  9. 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...
    Author
    Todd E. Johnson and Shannon Craigo-Snell
    Faith tradition
    Christianity
    Topics
    Society and culture

  10. Democracy

    It is a statement of the obvious to say that Christianity is not necessary for democracy to exist. It is no less true, but perhaps less obvious, to say that democratic politics is intrinsic to the practice of Christianity, and democracy, broadly understood, is a way of enacting fundamental Ch...
    Author
    Luke Bretherton
    Faith tradition
    Christianity
    Topics
    Society and culture

  11. Migration and Christian Theology

    This article provides a comprehensive and in-depth Christian theological account of human migration by drawing on various biblical and theological resources. In so doing, it focuses on five key theological themes that lie at the foundation of migration theologies: the Bible, God, Christ, the ...
    Author
    Ilsup Ahn
    Faith tradition
    Christianity
    Topics
    Society and culture

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