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Post-Holocaust Theology
- The Shoah (Holocaust) has raised a number of questions to which Jewish philosophers, theologians, and historians have given different answers. This article offers a survey of how Jewish thinkers have shaped the memory of the Shoah and how they reimagined Judaism after the catastrophe. In the ...
- Author
- Ephraim Meir
- Faith tradition
- Judaism
- Topics
- Theological movements
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
Justification
- Within Christian theology, justification refers to the act whereby human beings are established as righteous before God. The doctrine of justification is distinct within the history of theology both for the importance ascribed to it – Martin Luther, as one prominent example, asserts that the ...
- Author
- Matthew J. Thomas
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Being and existence
Ecological Ethics
- Challenged to determine the efficacy of Christian theology for addressing human-induced problems that are imperilling species, ecosystems, and the biosphere of Earth, theologians have been responding in a variety of ways for several decades. Some theologians have corrected uninformed interp...
- Author
- Jame Schaefer
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Ethics
Architecture and Christian Theology
- There is an obvious convergence, in the spaces used for Christian worship, between the practice of architecture and the concerns of Christian theology. Even the most utilitarian of spaces – an old warehouse, a community hall, a converted office building – when adapted for use in Christian w...
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- Murray Rae
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Society and culture
Faith
- From its origins, ‘faith’ has been a central category which correlates positively with the high regard for the discipline of theology in Christianity. However, it has been understood in various different ways. Current controversies about faith crystallize around an unusual expression empl...
- Author
- Paul R. Hinlicky
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Spiritual life and practices
The History of Medical Ethics
- Medical ethics has three interrelated but distinguishable meanings: guild etiquette and moral expectations for physicians; moral concerns directly related to treatment protocols (including issues of patients’ rights); and the general moral assessment of health promotion and disease preventi...
- Author
- James Thobaben
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Ethics, Philosophy and science
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