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Theology in India
- This article provides an overview of the structure and content of the various theological streams that have shaped Indian Christianity over two millennia. The theology of the ancient St. Thomas Christians, widely considered the earliest Christian group in India, though embedded in the litur...
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- Jesudas Athyal
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- Christianity
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Systematic Theology in the Nordic Countries after 1945
- Christian systematic theologies in the Nordic countries share common traits in terms of their Lutheran heritage and the close relationship between church and state (‘folk-church’) organizations that have dominated church life and theological reasoning up until the present. Although internat...
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- Jan-Olav Henriksen
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- Christianity
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- Theological movements
Lutheran Ecclesiology
- Lutheran ecclesiology is an outgrowth of a reform movement within the Western church and shares scriptural underpinnings with this broader tradition. The Lutheran reformers’ convictions about the church and the basic contours of an ecclesiology found binding expression in the Lutheran confe...
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- Jonathan Mumme
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- Christianity
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Womanist Theology
- Womanist theology is a theology derived from the context, voice, action, and agency of Black women of the African Diaspora. It is grounded in – but also is a critique of – the failings of Black (overtly male) and feminist (overtly white female) liberation theologies that preceded it. Womanist...
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- Diana L. Hayes
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- Christianity
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- Theological movements
Ismāʿīlī Shīʿism
- Representing the second largest Shīʿī Muslim community after the Ithnāʿasharīs, or Twelver Shīʿīs, the Ismāʿīlīs have had a complex history dating back to the formative period of Islam. In medieval times, the Ismāʿīlīs established states of their own, the Fāṭimid caliphate and the Nizārī Is...
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- Farhad Daftary
- Faith tradition
- Islam
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- Theological movements
Sufism
- Sufism is concerned with a broad trend within Islamicate societies towards expressing how taṣawwuf, as a path of spiritual refinement, has impacted religious, social, and political modes of human endeavour. If we look at taṣawwuf more specifically, we can identify a vibrant discourse of tho...
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- Aiyub Palmer
- Faith tradition
- Islam
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- Theological movements
Hasidism: Its Thought and Theology
- The goal of this article is to present the theological ideas of the Hasidic movement as found in the works of its founders. It delves into the kabbalistic roots of Hasidism from the sixteenth century and explains its place in the world of Kabbalah, as well as its unique innovative ideas. Th...
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- Raphael Shuchat
- Faith tradition
- Judaism
- Topics
- Theological movements
Theology in Australia
- Theology, in Australia’s brief history, has been shaped by its colonial origins, the impact of the changing demographics of the Christian population, and the secular strand in Australian history. This article outlines the historical development of theology in Australia, the institutional fr...
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- Peter Howard
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- Christianity
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- Theological movements
Zaydī Shīʿism
- Zaydī Shīʿism is a tradition of Islamic law and theology with deep historical roots in the Muslim world. This article provides a historical overview, beginning with Imām Zayd b. ʿAlī (d. 122/740), and then tracing the movement’s development in Iraq, northern Iran, and Yemen through to the n...
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- Scott Lucas and Egbal Almahatwary
- Faith tradition
- Islam
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- Theological movements
Theology in Africa
- This article provides a broad overview of key issues that have animated theology in Africa. It thinks of theology in Africa as African Christian theology and engages the key issues from a historical and continental perspective. It shows how Christian theology in Africa has engaged key issue...
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- David Ngong
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- Christianity
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- Theological movements
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