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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
Roman Catholic Canon Law
- The Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church is contained in two Codes that legislate on the way the Church is organized and carries out its activities in the world. The Law is understood with reference to a renewed ecclesiology expressed in the texts of the Second Vatican Council, which deeply...
- Author
- Patrick Valdrini
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Law, Spiritual life and practices
Soul-Body Dualism and Science
- This entry begins with a consideration of what a soul is and whether it is reasonable to believe in its existence. It then looks at what, if anything, the Bible teaches about the existence of the soul, and whether there are non-biblical reasons for believing in the soul’s existence. Some bibl...
- Author
- Stewart Goetz
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Philosophy and science
Latin American Liberation Theology
- Born at the end of the 1960s – in a Latin America marked by military dictatorships, a rural exodus that gathered the poor in the peripheries of cities, the Cuban revolution’s impact on popular movements, and the renewal of the Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council – Latin American ...
- Author
- Jung Mo Sung
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
Theology and Praxis in Hasidism
- Hasidism refers to a theological and religious movement within Judaism, which began in eighteenth-century Europe in connection to Kabbalah mysticism. This article provides an overview of major themes in Hasidic teaching. Among them: the notion of divine immanence (melo kol ha-aretz kevodo) ...
- Author
- Aviezer Cohen and Ora Wiskind-Elper
- Faith tradition
- Judaism
- Topics
- Spiritual life and practices, Theological movements
Sovereignty
- The article presents sovereignty within the context of Christian theology, not as an abstract concept of political theory and action but as a complex historical concept which reflects how power can be generated and performatively exercised as a dynamic and relational phenomenon. It presents...
- Author
- Rebekka Klein
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Being and existence
Purgatory in Historical Perspective
- Purgatory is a place, state, or stage in the Christian afterlife where, after death, the soul is purged of minor, unexpiated sin so that it can be fit for heaven. ‘Purgatory’ derives from the Latin purgare (to purge) and hence as the noun purgatorium it is a place of purgation and purific...
- Author
- Isabel Moreira
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Being and existence
Pilgrimage
- Pilgrimage often refers to spiritual journeys and is a topic associated with multifaceted theories and practices in global, historical Christianity. First, this article explores the physical, internal, and allegorical aspects of pilgrimage journeys. This article then examines the scriptural...
- Author
- Melody Bellefeuille-Frost
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Spiritual life and practices
Anglican Theology
- Anglican theology is a distinct tradition which emerged within Western Catholicism during the sixteenth-century Reformation. This article provides an account of Anglican theology as an ecclesial movement formed in the context of the theological and political shifts of sixteenth-century Euro...
- Author
- Stephen Spencer and Joseph Galgalo
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
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...
- Author
- Ian A. McFarland
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Being and existence
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