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Post-Holocaust Theology
- The Shoah (Holocaust) has raised a number of questions to which Jewish philosophers, theologians, and historians have given different answers. This article offers a survey of how Jewish thinkers have shaped the memory of the Shoah and how they reimagined Judaism after the catastrophe. In the ...
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- Ephraim Meir
- Faith tradition
- Judaism
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- Theological movements
Lutheran Confessionalism
- This article understands the term ‘confessionalism’ as ‘defining the church by confessional document’ (5). The authors of the Lutheran Confessions (for the historical and theological background cf. ) were deliberately conscious of the contemporary character of the confessional writings in t...
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- Werner Klän
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
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- Theological movements
Pentecostal Theology
- A Pentecostal theology distinct from other Christian traditions was evident from the start of the modern-day Pentecostal revivals that occurred worldwide at the turn to the twentieth century. Yet, initially, Pentecostals viewed themselves as an ecumenical movement and did not develop an i...
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- Wolfgang Vondey
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
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- Theological movements
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
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
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- Theological movements
Millenarianism
- The word ‘millenarianism’ is used narrowly to describe the idea, expressed in Rev 20:1–10, of a thousand-year kingdom of the saints before the last judgment, and broadly to describe general expectations of imminent radical betterment on Earth that this idea has sparked throughout Christia...
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- Jayne Svenungsson
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
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- Theological movements
Methodist Theology
- Methodist theology is elusive. When John Wesley attempted to describe The Character of a Methodist (), he began by telling the reader what a Methodist is not. The distinguishing marks of the Methodist, he observed, are not a peculiar set of opinions, notions, doctrines, actions, or customs.
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- Paul Chilcote
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
Magisterial Teaching of John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis
- This chapter offers an overview of the magisterial teaching of the pontificates of John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis. This includes a summary of the content of their encyclicals and their other most significant magisterial documents. Summaries are also provided of the major theologica...
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- Tracey Rowland
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
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- Theological movements
Minjung Theology
- This article explores Christian liberation theology in the Korean context, namely minjungsinhak, literally meaning ‘people’s theology’, discussing its history, characteristics, recent developments, and implications. This article shows how the new theology arose as a theological tradition in...
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- Andrew Eungi Kim and Jongman Kim
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
Latin American Liberation Theology
- Born at the end of the 1960s – in a Latin America marked by military dictatorships, a rural exodus that gathered the poor in the peripheries of cities, the Cuban revolution’s impact on popular movements, and the renewal of the Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council – Latin American ...
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- Jung Mo Sung
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
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