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Democracy
- It is a statement of the obvious to say that Christianity is not necessary for democracy to exist. It is no less true, but perhaps less obvious, to say that democratic politics is intrinsic to the practice of Christianity, and democracy, broadly understood, is a way of enacting fundamental Ch...
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- Luke Bretherton
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- Christianity
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- Society and culture
Film and Christian Theology
- This article puts forward a robust historically-informed analysis of the current state of Christian theology and film discourse, establishing the necessary conditions not only for making sense of how the field has developed over time but also for imagining where it might go in the future. I...
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- Robert K. Johnston and Kutter Callaway
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- Christianity
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- Society and culture
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
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- Christianity
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- Society and culture
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.
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- Thomas Pfau
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- Christianity
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- Society and culture
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...
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- Thomas Pfau
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
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- Society and culture
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
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- Christianity
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- Society and culture
Religious Education
- The article has its focus on Christian religious education and the Christian (theological) understanding of religious education (including the relationship between religious education and moral education), as opposed to a generic (religious studies) understanding of religious education acro...
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- Friedrich Schweitzer
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- Christianity
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- Society and culture
Performing Arts and Embodiment in Christian Theology
- Across the geographical breadth and temporal depth of Christianity, theology and the performing arts have been natural partners, suspect allies, committed enemies, and passionate friends. Performing arts are bodily actions in time and space. Christian worship becomes the embodied actions of...
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- Todd E. Johnson and Shannon Craigo-Snell
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
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- Society and culture
Music in the Western Theological Tradition
- This entry examines the ways in which Christian theology has shaped and elucidated the activities of music-making and music-hearing, and in turn how musical practices have been appropriated to advance the enterprise of theology. Attention is focused primarily (though not exclusively) on textl...
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- Jeremy Begbie
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- Christianity
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- Society and culture
Migration and Christian Theology
- This article provides a comprehensive and in-depth Christian theological account of human migration by drawing on various biblical and theological resources. In so doing, it focuses on five key theological themes that lie at the foundation of migration theologies: the Bible, God, Christ, the ...
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- Ilsup Ahn
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
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- Society and culture
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