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Law and Theology in the Western Legal Tradition
Particularly the great synthetic texts of Roman law – the Codex Theodosianus (438), the Corpus Iuris Civilis (529–534), and Justinian’s Novellae (534–565) – legally established Christian teachings on the Trinity, the sacraments, liturgy, holy days, Sabbath observance, sexual ethics, charity, education, and much else.
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The term ‘law’ does not admit of easy or universal definition. In its broadest sense, law consists of all the written and unwritten norms that govern human conduct – moral commandments, state statutes, church canons, family rules, commercial habits, communal customs, and others. It includes...
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- John Witte Jr.
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Law
God and Philosophy of Time
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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
Science-Engaged Theology
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Over the last seventy years, the field of science-and-religion has become an interdisciplinary area of study, concerned with the relationship between the natural and psychological sciences and religious faith. Within science-and-religion, scientific and theological research have sometimes b...
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- Joanna Leidenhag
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Philosophy and science
Protestant Theology in Korea
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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
Love in Christian Ethics
Early Christian writing faithfully preserved the vis-à-vis of divine and human love, but the synthesis of the two to form a unified conceptual organizing structure of theology and ethics had to wait until Augustine of Hippo (fifth century CE), for whom love was the major principle of dogmatic as well as moral theology, accounting for the divine life of the Trinity, the work of grace, the hermeneutics of scripture, the organization of the church, and much else: ‘Here is our natural philosophy!
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Love is understood in Christian thought, following Jesus’ teaching and New Testament reflection, as the summative category of moral value and obligation, comprehensive and interpretative of all other moral norms. But since love is not a uniform phenomenon, distinctions of types of love have...
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- Oliver O’Donovan
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Being and existence
Jesus Christ as Ancestor
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One of the recurring themes in African Christian theological discourse is that of Christ as ‘an ancestor’. This article considers the meaning of Jesus Christ as an ‘ancestor’, first by introducing African ancestral belief and then examining perspectives from African theologians who apply an...
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- Reuben Turbi Luka
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theology of religions
Embodiment and Liturgy
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People assembled in worship and prayer constitutes one of the most common images of the Christian religion; indeed, it is often what people have in mind when they say ‘church’. While Christian worship has developed patterns and content specific to its beliefs from the New Testament period...
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- Bruce T. Morrill
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Spiritual life and practices, Being and existence
Witness and Evangelism
Third, it is trinitarian and sacramental, inviting people to enter a relationship with the community of the faithful as well as with all three Persons of the Trinity through baptism ( Bosch 1983 : 233 ). Fourth, it is accompanied by a promise: that Jesus would be with his disciples and support them with supernatural power as they undertake this evangelistic mission ( Bosch 1983 : 240–241 ).
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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...
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- Mark R. Teasdale
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Spiritual life and practices
Sacrifice and the Eucharist
Far from standing in isolation, the Eucharist and its sacrificial dimension interact with other major dogmatic loci concerning God (Trinity), Christ (Christology), the Holy Spirit (pneumatology), humanity (anthropology), sin (hamartiology), and the church (ecclesiology).
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As the uniquely Christian form of worship, the Eucharist is studied by ‘systematic’ theologians in terms of its coherence with revelation as a whole, and by ‘dogmatic’ theologians in light of historic definitions that still impact the churches of today. Examination of ‘eucharistic sacrifi...
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- John Stephenson
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Spiritual life and practices
Suffering
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Suffering is a topic commonly driven by human questions and experience, with Christians facing these challenges in light of their own sacred scriptures and broad tradition. Individuals and communities are consistently faced with painful situations that provoke them to ask nagging questions,...
- Author
- Kelly M. Kapic
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Being and existence
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