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Love in Christian Ethics
- Love is understood in Christian thought, following Jesus’ teaching and New Testament reflection, as the summative category of moral value and obligation, comprehensive and interpretative of all other moral norms. But since love is not a uniform phenomenon, distinctions of types of love have...
- Author
- Oliver O’Donovan
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Being and existence
Participation in the Christian Doctrinal and Philosophical Tradition
- ‘Participation’ or ‘partaking’ has featured in Christian theology since the New Testament, describing a relation of derivation, likeness, or communion. Theologians including Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine of Hippo, Pseudo-Dionysius, Maximus the Confessor, and Thomas Aquinas made this theme a...
- Author
- Andrew Davison
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Being and existence
Suffering
- Suffering is a topic commonly driven by human questions and experience, with Christians facing these challenges in light of their own sacred scriptures and broad tradition. Individuals and communities are consistently faced with painful situations that provoke them to ask nagging questions,...
- Author
- Kelly M. Kapic
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Being and existence
Sovereignty
- The article presents sovereignty within the context of Christian theology, not as an abstract concept of political theory and action but as a complex historical concept which reflects how power can be generated and performatively exercised as a dynamic and relational phenomenon. It presents...
- Author
- Rebekka Klein
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Being and existence
The Natures, Minds, and Wills of Christ in Christian Philosophy
- This article surveys the controversies concerning Jesus’ natures, minds, and wills. It begins with an overview of the debates concerning the exegesis of relevant scriptural passages; the historical controversies leading up to the landmark Chalcedonian Definition (451 CE); and significant ...
- Author
- Andrew Ter Ern Loke
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Being and existence
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
The Problem of Evil
- This article examines approaches to the problem of evil in historical and contemporary Jewish theology. The material is structured conceptually rather than as a chronological survey. The introduction contrasts classical Jewish formulations of the problem of evil with the standard formulations...
- Author
- Michael J. Harris
- Faith tradition
- Judaism
- Topics
- Being and existence
The Perfect Human (al-insān al-kāmil)
- The Islamic mystical doctrine of the perfect human (al-insān al-kāmil) – whose bodily existence is deemed to mark the culmination of the cosmic process of divine self-disclosure – has had a lasting impact on Sufi thought and practice from the late medieval period onwards. It has also filter...
- Author
- Richard Todd
- Faith tradition
- Islam
- Topics
- Being and existence
Primordial Human Nature (fiṭra)
- The concept of fiṭra (primordial human nature or natural disposition) plays an important role in Islamic theological anthropology. It is first and foremost a scriptural concept, being present both within the Qur’an (Q. 30:30) and the Hadith (especially the hadith ‘every child is born upon t...
- Author
- Ramon Harvey
- Faith tradition
- Islam
- Topics
- Being and existence
The Self (nafs)
- This entry provides a comprehensive overview of the major themes, questions, and developments concerning the concept of the self in Islamic thought. Beginning with the Qur’an and then following the various streams of Islamic thought, such as theology (kalām), philosophy (falsafa), and Sufis...
- Author
- Muhammad Faruque
- Faith tradition
- Islam
- Topics
- Being and existence
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