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Theology and Cultural Evolution
- Cultural evolution is a broad theoretical framework that is applied to several disciplinary fields to stress the role that non-genetic information plays in configuring processes of evolution and adaptation, for animals, humans, and societies. Given the interrelationship between genes and...
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- Lluis Oviedo
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Society and culture
African American Preaching
- African American preaching is a distinctive form of Christian discourse that has evolved from the historical and cultural experiences of the African American community, particularly shaped by the legacies of slavery and African cultural traditions. This article is a theological analysis of ...
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- Kenyatta R. Gilbert, Chelsea Brooke Yarborough, and Larrin Robertson
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Spiritual life and practices
Sacraments and Signs in the Roman Catholic Tradition
- This article works to establish a conceptual definition for sacraments in relation to the concept of sign within the Roman Catholic Christian tradition. In the Catholic tradition, seven sacraments are recognized: baptism, confirmation, Eucharist, penance, anointing, holy orders, and marriag...
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- Reginald Lynch O.P.
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Spiritual life and practices
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.
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- Thomas Pfau
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Society and culture
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
European Literature and Christian Theology (1900–present)
- This entry considers the relation between literature and Christian theology in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Europe, with attention principally given to those writers whose oeuvre takes up questions central to theology (in particular soteriology, eschatology, ecclesiology, creat...
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- Thomas Pfau
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Society and culture
Pilgrimage
- Pilgrimage often refers to spiritual journeys and is a topic associated with multifaceted theories and practices in global, historical Christianity. First, this article explores the physical, internal, and allegorical aspects of pilgrimage journeys. This article then examines the scriptural...
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- Melody Bellefeuille-Frost
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Spiritual life and practices
René Girard and Mimetic Theory
- René Girard is not a theologian; he is best described as fundamental anthropologist and culture theorist. His versatile system of hermeneutical and heuristic thinking is known to its author as ‘the Mimetic Theory’. Girardian ‘mimesis’ denotes, in a myriad of particular forms, a stru...
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- Paul Gifford
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Philosophy and science
World Christianity
- World Christianity as a historical phenomenon emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century, showing the global reaching of Christianity physically, numerically, and characteristically. Even though the number of Christians at the beginning of the twenty-first century (around thirty-t...
- Author
- Lalsangkima Pachuau
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
Arabic Christian Theology
- Arabic Christian theology is a rich and diverse field of theological thought that has developed among Christian communities in Arabic-speaking regions of the Middle East and North Africa. It encompasses various denominations, including Melkite, Maronite, Coptic, and Syriac Orthodox, each co...
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- Najib George Awad
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
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