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Liturgy of the Byzantine Rite
- The present entry deals with the Byzantine rite, a term employed here in its broad meaning to refer to the liturgical tradition of Eastern Chalcedonian Christians. These are Eastern Orthodox and various Eastern rite Catholics, who share a common liturgical tradition shaped in the Eastern pa...
- Author
- Damaskinos Olkinuora
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Spiritual life and practices
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...
- Author
- Lluis Oviedo
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Society and culture
Christian Apocrypha
- The article offers an overall introduction to Christian apocrypha. After a discussion of several terminological problems, it provides criteria for a definition of apocryphal literature and related traditions. After that, it discusses aspects of the question of why it may be meaningful to st...
- Author
- Tobias Nicklas
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Sacred texts
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
Magisterial Teaching of John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis
- This chapter offers an overview of the magisterial teaching of the pontificates of John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis. This includes a summary of the content of their encyclicals and their other most significant magisterial documents. Summaries are also provided of the major theologica...
- Author
- Tracey Rowland
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
Jewish Ethics
- Before modern times, there was no systematic account of Jewish ethics. This can be attributed to the fact that Jewish tradition never considered ethics an autonomous subject matter or mode of inquiry. There is no indigenous Hebrew word for ethics, describing what ancient Greek thinkers used t...
- Author
- Eugene Korn
- Faith tradition
- Judaism
- Topics
- Ethics
Jesus Christ as Ancestor
- One of the recurring themes in African Christian theological discourse is that of Christ as ‘an ancestor’. This article considers the meaning of Jesus Christ as an ‘ancestor’, first by introducing African ancestral belief and then examining perspectives from African theologians who apply an...
- Author
- Reuben Turbi Luka
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theology of religions
Substance Dualist Theological Anthropology
- This article explores a conception of the human from a substantival perspective of the wider Christian tradition. After a general survey of substance dualist theological anthropology, the article focuses on the interplay between human constitution and the imago Dei (image of God). By focusi...
- Author
- Joshua Farris
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Being and existence
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
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
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