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2. Secularization in Modern Jewish Thought

   This article discusses the main challenges that secularization presented to Judaism and to Jewish thought, and maps the key strategies and central thinkers who responded to this challenge, from the eighteenth century up to the turn of the twenty-first. Attention is also given to some secular ...

   ​Author

   Zohar Maor and Ori Werdiger

   ​Faith tradition

   Judaism

   ​Topics

   Society and culture

3. Postmodern Philosophy and Theology

   This article offers an overview of some of the key themes and motifs in postmodern philosophy which have influenced contemporary Christian theology as well as a survey of some of the theological responses to these philosophical ideas and methods. The first section of the article examines th...

   ​Author

   King-Ho Leung and John Milbank

   ​Faith tradition

   Christianity

   ​Topics

   Philosophy and science

4. Stoicism and Christian Ethics

   It is widely accepted that the Stoics had a decisive influence on historical Christian thought, particularly Christian ethics. But the nature of this influence is contested among contemporary scholars. Moreover, even those historical and contemporary theologians who engage with Stoic writin...

   ​Author

   Elizabeth Agnew Cochran

   ​Faith tradition

   Christianity

   ​Topics

   Philosophy and science

5. 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

6. Systematic Theology in the Nordic Countries after 1945

   Christian systematic theologies in the Nordic countries share common traits in terms of their Lutheran heritage and the close relationship between church and state (‘folk-church’) organizations that have dominated church life and theological reasoning up until the present. Although internat...

   ​Author

   Jan-Olav Henriksen

   ​Faith tradition

   Christianity

   ​Topics

   Theological movements

7. 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

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