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Protestant Theology in Korea
- This article deals with the landscape of Korean Christianity, focusing on the development of Protestant theology in socio-cultural contexts and the main issues of theological discourse. This article consists of mainly three parts: first, it illustrates the dawn and rise of Korean Protestant C...
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- Meehyun Chung
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
The Church in the Christian Bible
- The theme of ‘church’ in the New Testament raises four central questions, the answers to which are essential for Christian theology. The questions are there for all, because of the text; but the answers are of different importance, due to the different traditions: (1) what is the relationsh...
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- Thomas Söding
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Sacred texts
Christian Year
- The Christian, or liturgical, year sets human lives within God’s story of creation and salvation, sanctifying moments, days, years, and lives. Calendar and hourly time become God’s time as the Christian year encompasses and intermingles past, present, and future. Following the key...
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- Robin Knowles Wallace
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Spiritual life and practices
Anglican Theology
- This article provides an account of Anglican theology as it emerged as a distinct tradition and ecclesial movement from within Western Catholicism, in the context of the theological and political shifts of sixteenth-century Europe. The pragmatic needs of a succession of English monarchs, al...
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- Stephen Spencer and Joseph Galgalo
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
Ordained Ministries
- This article treats ordained ministries in the historic church traditions, East and West, which engage the ecumenical conversations, explorations, and emerging consensus on church-dividing issues on Christian ministry. The topics in this article include the development of structures of orda...
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- John St-Helier Gibaut
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Spiritual life and practices
Baptism
- Baptism (from the Greek baptizo: to immerse, to submerge) is a ritual that is practised in practically all Christian churches and communities. It involves a person being immersed in water – or having water poured over them – along with the spoken trinitarian formula. This article outlines the...
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- Dagmar Heller
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Spiritual life and practices
Christian Ethics
- Contributed by scholars from diverse traditions and perspectives around the world, this article evidences both unifying and diversifying impulses in Christian ethics and moral thinking. Christian ethics is understood as both lived experience and academic study reflecting upon practice, depl...
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- Esther D. Reed, Dion Forster, and Rudolf von Sinner with Ernst M. Conradie, Jörg Haustein, Daniel Heide, Ángel F. Méndez-Montoya, and Upolu Lumā Vaai
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Ethics
Quaker Theology
- Originating amid the religious and political upheavals of seventeenth-century England, Quakers are now a geographically widespread and theologically diverse group, often best known for their peace work and for their social and political activism. Although Quakers have often not valued, and ...
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- Rachel Muers
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
God and Philosophy of Time
- What Christians call ‘creation’ is fundamentally, inescapably, and entirely temporal. Humans, too, are temporal beings. As such, understanding the nature of time has been a philosophical pursuit since the pre-Socratic philosophers. Theologians have not been exempted from this interest, an...
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- Emily Qureshi-Hurst
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Being and existence
Christianity and Graeco-Roman Paganism
- Through the efforts of Peter, Paul, and the other apostles, the gospel of Jesus Christ was transmitted to those who worshipped the many gods of the Greeks, Romans, and other Mediterranean peoples. This article offers an overview of Graeco-Roman polytheism and the complex relationships betwe...
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- Mattias Gassman
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Philosophy and science
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