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Witness and Evangelism
- Witness and evangelism are concepts related to how Christians participate in the mission of the triune God (missio Dei). As stated in Together Toward Life, a document published by the World Council of Churches Commission on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME), God’s mission is to share th...
- Author
- Mark R. Teasdale
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Spiritual life and practices
Bhakti
- At the heart of many forms of Hinduism is a multiple-layered vision of becoming concentred in the divine reality. Across three millennia of Hindu socioreligious history, various texts, teachers, and traditions have envisioned a world suffused with divine presence within which individuals ar...
- Author
- Ankur Barua
- Faith tradition
- Hinduism
- Topics
- Being and existence, Spiritual life and practices
Caitanya Vaiṣṇavism
- This article examines various aspects of the Caitanya Vaiṣṇava tradition, a Hindu devotional tradition that centres on devotion to the deity Krishna (Kṛṣṇa). First, the entry provides a historical overview, followed by a description of how the tradition views Krishna as an omnipotent, omnib...
- Author
- Akshay Gupta
- Faith tradition
- Hinduism
- Topics
- Theological movements
The History of Science and Theology
- This entry offers a history of the different ways in which the formal study of the natural world has been related to theological considerations in the Western Christian tradition. Because what counts as science and what counts as theology has changed over time, it begins with a history of t...
- Author
- Peter Harrison
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Philosophy and science
The Last Judgment
- The last judgment is widely understood in Christianity as something which will take place in the eschata or eschaton (sometimes called ‘the end times’), with only marginal significance for everyday life. A closer look reveals this notion to be misguided. Understanding the last judgment as a...
- Author
- Markus Mühling
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Being and existence, Law
Jewish Ethics
- Before modern times, there was no systematic account of Jewish ethics. This can be attributed to the fact that Jewish tradition never considered ethics an autonomous subject matter or mode of inquiry. There is no indigenous Hebrew word for ethics, describing what ancient Greek thinkers used t...
- Author
- Eugene Korn
- Faith tradition
- Judaism
- Topics
- Ethics
Christian Feminist Theological Ethics
- As Hilde Lindemann has written, ‘Feminist ethics isn’t a branch of ethics – it’s a way of doing ethics’ (7). Likewise, Christian feminist theological ethics is not a branch of Christian theology and ethics, it is a way of doing Christian theology and ethics. The most basic description of Ch...
- Author
- Cristina L. H. Traina
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Ethics
Angels in Christian Theology
- The doctrine of angels is not the heart of the gospel. However, it is also not extrinsic cultural symbolism borrowed from the surrounding culture, purely accidental, as a means through which the Christian faith expressed itself in the past, and which it could – or even should – abandon today ...
- Author
- Serge-Thomas Bonino
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Being and existence
Ecological Ethics
- Challenged to determine the efficacy of Christian theology for addressing human-induced problems that are imperilling species, ecosystems, and the biosphere of Earth, theologians have been responding in a variety of ways for several decades. Some theologians have corrected uninformed interp...
- Author
- Jame Schaefer
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Ethics
Theology and the Cognitive Science of Religion
- Cognitive science of religion (CSR) is the study of how mental processes interact with and influence the formation and transmission of religious concepts. In this article, we examine how CSR may contribute to theological research and ministry practice. We begin with both an overview of CSR ...
- Author
- Tyler Greenway and Justin L. Barrett
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Philosophy and science
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