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Salvation in the Bible
- Salvation in the Bible has two aspects, which might be called deliverance and blessing. In love, God takes the initiative to rescue human beings from a negative condition – such as illness, danger, death, exclusion, oppression, or sin – and bring them into a positive condition – such as hea...
- Author
- Brenda Colijn
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Sacred texts
Christian Ethics
- Contributed by scholars from diverse traditions and perspectives around the world, this article evidences both unifying and diversifying impulses in Christian ethics and moral thinking. Christian ethics is understood as both lived experience and academic study reflecting upon practice, depl...
- Author
- Esther D. Reed, Dion Forster, and Rudolf von Sinner with Ernst M. Conradie, Jörg Haustein, Daniel Heide, Ángel F. Méndez-Montoya, and Upolu Lumā Vaai
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Ethics
Biblical Hermeneutics
- The changing shape of biblical hermeneutics in Christian theology over the centuries has encompassed an implicit premodern attention to interpretative possibility, an explicit modern response to interpretative disorder, and a postmodern willingness to explore interpretative options and commit...
- Author
- Richard S. Briggs
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Sacred texts
Heaven
- Beyond its basic meaning as the divine dwelling place, the idea in Christian theology of heaven as the ultimate (or penultimate) destiny of human beings is where most reflection has focused, and where most problems arise. The first part of this entry explores conceptual issues, the second...
- Author
- David Brown
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Being and existence
Creation in the Old Testament
- Creation in the Old Testament (or Hebrew Bible) is not limited to the first two creation accounts in Genesis (1:1–2:3; 2:4b–3:24). It is a widespread theme featured not only in Genesis but also in the Psalms, the Prophets, and the Wisdom literature. This article surveys representative creat...
- Author
- William P. Brown
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Sacred texts
Christian Apocrypha
- The article offers an overall introduction to Christian apocrypha. After a discussion of several terminological problems, it provides criteria for a definition of apocryphal literature and related traditions. After that, it discusses aspects of the question of why it may be meaningful to st...
- Author
- Tobias Nicklas
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Sacred texts
Wisdom in the Old Testament
- This article takes a thematic approach to commonalities between the three main wisdom books in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible (OT/HB; sections 1–3), and then looks briefly at apocryphal and New Testament (NT) developments (section 4). The first section covers the acquisition of wisdom; it...
- Author
- Katharine Dell
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Sacred texts
Theology and Science
- This article begins with an introduction briefly sketching the concepts of Western Christian theology and science in a systematic perspective informed by the historical shaping of the terms. It then offers an inquiry into the biblical traditions and their relations to the development of sci...
- Author
- Dirk Evers
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Philosophy and science
Trauma Theology
- Trauma theology is a theological discipline that seeks to both do theological justice to traumatic experiences and also to reimagine theologies in the light of such experiences. Whilst suffering has always been of interest to Christian theology, trauma theology distinguishes between sufferi...
- Author
- Karen O'Donnell
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological methods
Feminist Biblical Interpretation
- This article offers a critical reflection on feminist biblical interpretation that, over the past forty plus years, has contributed greatly to changing the face of Christian biblical scholarship. After offering a definition, as well as an overview of the field of feminist biblical interpretat...
- Author
- L. Juliana Claassens
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Sacred texts, Theological methods
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