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Evil and Suffering
- Evil and suffering are understood within the framework of divine wisdom and human will. The empirical fact of suffering in God’s world provides a significant and indicative theme for Islamic thought. Already forming part of the Qur’an’s diagnosis of the human condition as exemplified with p...
- Author
- Tim Winter
- Faith tradition
- Islam
- Topics
- Being and existence
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
Justice and Rights
- The aim of this article is to give the reader a synoptic view of justice in the thought of the Christian church and, more briefly, in its practice, over the centuries and today. Scripture is foundational in the thought and life of the church, so the article begins by taking note of ...
- Author
- Nicholas Wolterstorff
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Ethics
Prophecy, Interpretation, and Social Criticism
- Prophetic figures and words are evoked throughout the Old and the New Testaments, from Genesis to Revelation, and they are a foundational resource for liturgy and theology in both Jewish and Christian traditions. The prophets’ most important role, performed in the public eye and sometimes...
- Author
- Ellen F. Davis and Sarah Musser
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Sacred texts
Hell
- In contemporary English, ‘hell’ is almost always used to refer either literally or metaphorically to a place of post-mortem punishment. However, in a longer perspective, the term was once commonly used to allude to the underworld more generally. In the latter sense in the Catholic West it b...
- Author
- David Brown
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Being and existence
Roman Catholic Canon Law
- The Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church is contained in two Codes that legislate on the way the Church is organized and carries out its activities in the world. The Law is understood with reference to a renewed ecclesiology expressed in the texts of the Second Vatican Council, which deeply...
- Author
- Patrick Valdrini
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Law, Spiritual life and practices
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 ...
- Author
- Jung Mo Sung
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
Justice and Corruption
- As the first quarter of the twenty-first century comes to an end, the world continues to witness an increasing and almost unprecedented challenge caused by corruption and the injustices it brings to global society. These challenges are clearly presented both to the global community and the ...
- Author
- Alfred Sebahene
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Ethics, Society and culture
Theology and Poverty
- This article provides an overview of the relationship between theology and poverty in the thought of the Christian church over the centuries, as well as of the interaction between theological and non-theological approaches to the conceptual study of poverty. As biblical texts are authorit...
- Author
- Theodros Assefa Teklu
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Ethics, Society and culture
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