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Analytic Theology
Over the past several decades, however, the contents of scholarly journals and anthologies aimed more towards professional rather than student audiences have shown a gradual but marked increase in interest in more tradition-specific topics, like the Christian doctrines of the Trinity, incarnation, and atonement, or the Buddhist doctrines of reincarnation and karma .
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In Christian theology, the term ‘analytic theology’ refers both narrowly to a particular kind of scholarly activity and more broadly to an overall style or approach to doing theology. It may also refer to what some characterize as an intellectual culture – ‘a rough grouping within a particu...
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- Michael Rea
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological methods
Ecotheology
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This article offers a broad overview of Christian ecotheology, a theological movement reflecting on Christian responses to ecological destruction. Any such an overview can hardly cover its spread in different geographical contexts, confessional traditions, theological schools, and languages...
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- Ernst Conradie
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Ethics, Theological movements
Theology and Technology
In Christian terms, God as Trinity implies that relationship is at the heart of God’s very being.
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Technology is a multifaceted reality. It is not merely the tools and machines we use but also the skills and processes with which we use them and the attitudes, culture, and social structures they produce or enhance. Given that the purpose of technology is to transform our environment or ou...
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- Noreen L. Herzfeld
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Philosophy and science, Ethics
The History of Science and Theology
It was compiled from sayings of the Church Fathers, but organized around specific theological topics such as the Trinity, creation , the incarnation, and the sacraments.
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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...
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- Peter Harrison
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Philosophy and science
Disability Theology
In 2023 , Lisa Powell published The Disabled God Revisited: Trinity, Christology, and Liberation , which begins from and extends Eiesland’s proposal.
2.4.2 Stanley Hauerwas
With the publication of The Disabled God , Nancy Eiesland may rightly be credited with the launch of disability theology.
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Disability theology is a field of study that addresses various theological questions in relation to, and through the lens of, disability. Christian theologians have pondered the meaning of disability and developed pastoral responses to it since the patristic period, although the discourse o...
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- Medi Ann Volpe
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological methods
Conversion
For example, the concept of the Trinity fit easily into their cosmos of many divinities.
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Conversion – the turning from one religion, belief, or way of life to another informed by the saving activity of Christ – is a central theme of Christianity. From a theological perspective, conversion, the human experience of salvation, is distinguished from regeneration, the hidden, divi...
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- David W. Kling
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theology of religions
Church Law in the United Kingdom
The Romanian Orthodox Church: ‘Orthodox Christians’ must ‘witness to God in the Holy Trinity, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, based on the Holy Scripture’, and have a right ‘to sustain, strengthen and witness to the faith of the Orthodox Church [and] live according to the teaching of the Orthodox faith’ ( ROMOC, Statutes , Articles 1 and 45).
7.2 The worship of God and liturgical administration
Each church, and those bodies within it competent to do so, may develop liturgical texts or other forms of service for public worship, provided these are consistent with the Word of God and church doctrine.
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This entry examines the laws and other regulatory instruments of a range of Christian churches in Great Britain, many of which also have a global reach. These legal instruments are pervasive in the lives of churches and regulate their ministry and government, doctrine, worship and rites of ...
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- Norman Doe and Stephen Coleman
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Spiritual life and practices
Theology in Latin America
On that subject the books of Leonardo Boff, Trinity and Society (2005) and Ronaldo Muñoz, The God of Christians ( 1990 ), made significant contributions to reconceptualize the Christian God in the process of liberation and option for the poor.
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This article will survey the historical process behind, and the main topics of, Christian theology as it developed and appears today in Latin America. It will first make a historical retrieval of how this theology had, for a large time, a European configuration, reinforced by a strong roman...
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- Maria Clara Bingemer
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
Performing Arts and Embodiment in Christian Theology
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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
Natural Theology
The rise of Deism, which dates from this period, set to one side theological notions that were seen as needlessly abstruse (such as the doctrine of the Trinity), and instead focused on the somewhat minimalist theme of God as creator ( Wigelsworth 2009 ).
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This article explores the biblical foundations and historical development of natural theology, noting in particular its relationship with the emergence of the natural sciences. After considering some questions of definition, the biblical foundations of natural theology are considered, follo...
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- Alister McGrath
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological methods
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