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2. 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

3. Truth and Reality (ḥaqq and ḥaqīqa)

   This entry investigates the singular Islamic theme of al-ḥaqq and al-ḥaqīqa (truth and reality), with particular attention being given to the mystical tradition of Islam. Since there are numerous meanings underpinning al-ḥaqq, including truth, reality, fact, rightness, established, and nece...

   ​Author

   Mukhtar H. Ali

   ​Faith tradition

   Islam

   ​Topics

   Being and existence

4. Religious Disagreement in Analytic Theology

   Religious disagreement means holding incompatible views of the truth or of the plausibility of some position that is religiously relevant. It is well known that many religious and non-religious worldviews make apparently incompatible claims about ultimate reality. This poses both theoretica...

   ​Author

   Olli-Pekka Vainio

   ​Faith tradition

   Christianity

   ​Topics

   Theological methods

5. The Nyāya School of Indian Philosophy

   The Nyāya school of philosophy deals with questions of logic, causation, epistemology, and soteriology. These topics are grounded in, and have implications for, concepts of cognition, perception, and the self. Nyāya philosophy is concerned with attaining liberation through knowledge: for th...

   ​Author

   Nirmalya Guha

   ​Faith tradition

   Hinduism

   ​Topics

   Philosophy and science, Theological methods

6. Caitanya Vaiṣṇavism

   This article examines various aspects of the Caitanya Vaiṣṇava tradition, a Hindu devotional tradition that centres on devotion to the deity Krishna (Kṛṣṇa). First, the entry provides a historical overview, followed by a description of how the tradition views Krishna as an omnipotent, omnib...

   ​Author

   Akshay Gupta

   ​Faith tradition

   Hinduism

   ​Topics

   Theological movements

7. 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

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