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  2. Theology and Neuroscience

    Neuroscience, the fastest growing scientific discipline for decades, has affected numerous aspects of Western culture. Thus, one should expect it to have influences on religion as well. This article treats one of the points of intersection with Christianity, the basic metaphysical makeup of...
    Author
    Nancey Murphy and Warren S. Brown
    Faith tradition
    Christianity
    Topics
    Philosophy and science

  3. Immanent and Economic Trinity

    The immanent and the economic Trinity refer to the distinction and relation of the Trinity in its immanent and economic aspects. This is a central concern of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity. This article explores (1) the development of the concepts relevant to this doctrinal locus tha...
    Author
    Mark P. Hertenstein
    Faith tradition
    Christianity
    Topics
    Being and existence

  4. Christian Theology

    This article introduces Christian theology in its substantial, structural, biblical, historical, and contextual dimensions. Section 1 lays out the substance of theology: after an introductory discussion of the term ‘theology’ and its developing meaning within Christianity, the section intro...
    Author
    Judith Wolfe
    Faith tradition
    Christianity
    Topics
    Theological methods

  5. Conciliar Christology

    This article presents the concept of Conciliar Christology, the Christology taught at the first seven ecumenical councils of the Christian Church. It then discusses the motivations for considering Conciliar Christology when theorizing about the incarnation. These motivations include the his...
    Author
    Timothy Pawl
    Faith tradition
    Christianity
    Topics
    Theological methods

  6. European Literature and Christian Theology (1700–1900)

    This entry considers major developments in European literature, from the early Enlightenment to the end of the nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on the relation between literary production and Christian theological inquiry in a rapidly changing cultural and political environment.
    Author
    Thomas Pfau
    Faith tradition
    Christianity
    Topics
    Society and culture

  7. The Theology of the Book of Common Prayer

    This article describes the doctrines that informed and are expressed by the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England, focusing on the 1662 recension, which has been a primary vehicle for theological reflection and debate within the Church of England and Anglicanism more broadly. The a...
    Author
    Drew Nathaniel Keane
    Faith tradition
    Christianity
    Topics
    Spiritual life and practices

  8. Creation

    Popular understandings of the Christian doctrine of creation are subject to two common misconceptions. Firstly, it is often viewed as a scientific hypothesis or historical claim about the origin of the world. Secondly, it tends for this reason to be treated as less a matter of faith (and th...
    Author
    Ian A. McFarland
    Faith tradition
    Christianity
    Topics
    Being and existence

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