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2. African American Preaching

   This essay 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 and...

   ​Author

   Kenyatta R. Gilbert, Chelsea Brooke Yarborough, and Larrin Robertson

   ​Faith tradition

   Christianity

   ​Topics

   Spiritual life and practices

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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...

   ​Author

   Thomas Pfau

   ​Faith tradition

   Christianity

   ​Topics

   Society and culture

6. 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...

   ​Author

   Paul Gifford

   ​Faith tradition

   Christianity

   ​Topics

   Philosophy and science

7. Arabic Christian Theology

   This entry starts by exploring the meaning of the term ‘Arabic Christian theology’ to explain its oxymoronic nature. It then introduces the form of Christian theological thought that one can find in the Arabic-speaking regions of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). It offers a brief hi...

   ​Author

   Najib George Awad

   ​Faith tradition

   Christianity

   ​Topics

   Theological movements

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