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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
Dispensationalism
- The theological approach to the Bible called dispensationalism has had a long and controversial history in the Christian church, and its impact on the global church over the last century and a half can hardly be denied (69–100; 9–56; ; ). The movement emerged in the nineteenth century and h...
- Author
- Darrell L. Bock
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
Film and Christian Theology
- This article puts forward a robust historically-informed analysis of the current state of Christian theology and film discourse, establishing the necessary conditions not only for making sense of how the field has developed over time but also for imagining where it might go in the future. I...
- Author
- Robert K. Johnston and Kutter Callaway
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Society and culture
Biblical Criticism and Modern Science
- It is no accident that the birth and growth of the modern sciences took place in tandem with the birth and growth of modern biblical criticism within the context of (largely European and North American) Christian societies from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Both kinds of enterpr...
- Author
- Mark Harris
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Sacred texts, Philosophy and science
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
The Religious Meaning of Language in Judaic Culture
- Judaic cultures have a commitment to language that is exceptional. Language practices – the reading and writing of scrolls and books, their interpretation as commentaries on commentaries, engaged with the letter both of text and as act – is central to Judaic conduct, thought, study, worship, ...
- Author
- Shira Wolosky
- Faith tradition
- Judaism
- Topics
- Society and culture
Experience: A Philosophical View
- The philosophical account of experience presented here considers this ‘most deceitful’ (16) and ‘obscure’ (346) word as an epistemological category, that is, as integral to our access to truth in both its gnoseological and ontological dimensions. Experience, in this sense, is the practical ...
- Author
- Antonio López
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Being and existence
Christian Feminist Theological Ethics
- As Hilde Lindemann has written, ‘Feminist ethics isn’t a branch of ethics – it’s a way of doing ethics’ (7). Likewise, Christian feminist theological ethics is not a branch of Christian theology and ethics, it is a way of doing Christian theology and ethics. The most basic description of Ch...
- Author
- Cristina L. H. Traina
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Ethics
African American Preaching
- This article is a theological analysis of African American preaching as a genre of Christian discourse. After first recognizing the particular influences of African culture, American slavery, other religious traditions, and the role its practitioners have played in defining its traditions a...
- Author
- Kenyatta R. Gilbert, Chelsea Brooke Yarborough, and Larrin Robertson
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Spiritual life and practices
Theological Reflection
- ‘Theological reflection’ is a way of referring to the many ways in which Christians reflect on experience in the light of their faith. At its best, it functions as an educational and formational tool to assist people to explore life’s challenges and to bring the wisdom of theological and bi...
- Author
- Elaine Graham
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Spiritual life and practices, Theological methods
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