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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
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 ...
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- Ephraim Meir
- Faith tradition
- Judaism
- Topics
- Theological movements
Dispensationalism
- The theological approach to the Bible called dispensationalism has had a long and controversial history in the Christian church, and its impact on the global church over the last century and a half can hardly be denied (69–100; 9–56; ; ). The movement emerged in the nineteenth century and h...
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- Darrell L. Bock
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
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 ...
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- Matthew J. Thomas
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Being and existence
Christian Theology
- This article introduces Christian theology in its substantial, structural, biblical, historical, and contextual dimensions. Section 1 lays out the substance of theology: after an introductory discussion of the term ‘theology’ and its developing meaning within Christianity, the section intro...
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- Judith Wolfe
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological methods
Experience: A Philosophical View
- The philosophical account of experience presented here considers this ‘most deceitful’ (16) and ‘obscure’ (346) word as an epistemological category, that is, as integral to our access to truth in both its gnoseological and ontological dimensions. Experience, in this sense, is the practical ...
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- Antonio López
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Being and existence
The Theology of the Council of Nicaea
- The Council of Nicaea in 325 was a critical theological and institutional watershed between the local and often diverse theologies of one God as Trinity in the second- and third-century Christian communities and the universal or catholic credal statements of the ancient imperial church th...
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- Rebecca Lyman
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
African American Preaching
- This article 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 a...
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- Kenyatta R. Gilbert, Chelsea Brooke Yarborough, and Larrin Robertson
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Spiritual life and practices
Conversion
- Conversion – the turning from one religion, belief, or way of life to another informed by the saving activity of Christ – is a central theme of Christianity. From a theological perspective, conversion, the human experience of salvation, is distinguished from regeneration, the hidden, divi...
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- David W. Kling
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theology of religions
Economics
- This article is about the relationship between economics and Christian theology. It is concerned with economics in the modern sense (distinguished from the ancient art of oikonomia or household management, and personal financial decision making). Economics is about systems of provision for ...
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- Paul Oslington
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Society and culture
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