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Trauma Theology
- Trauma theology is a theological discipline that seeks to both do theological justice to traumatic experiences and also to reimagine theologies in the light of such experiences. Whilst suffering has always been of interest to Christian theology, trauma theology distinguishes between sufferi...
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- Karen O'Donnell
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- Christianity
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Feminist Theologies
- The entry summarizes and analyses some of the main theological trends within Jewish feminisms. Taking a broader sense of theology as the conceptual religious underpinning that serves as a lens through which new options for interpreting the Jewish canon emerge, it focuses on five main themes: ...
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- Ronit Irshai
- Faith tradition
- Judaism
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- Theological methods
Conciliar Christology
- This article presents the concept of Conciliar Christology, the Christology taught at the first seven ecumenical councils of the Christian Church. It then discusses the motivations for considering Conciliar Christology when theorizing about the incarnation. These motivations include the his...
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- Timothy Pawl
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- Christianity
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Hermeneutical Theology
- Hermeneutical theology is an approach to theological inquiry arising from the work of Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann around the midpoint of the twentieth century. The movement materialized in the works of Gerhard Ebeling, Ernst Fuchs, and Eberhard Jüngel as they engaged with the broader ‘li...
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- C. M. Howell
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
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- Theological methods
Postliberal Theology
- Postliberal theology is an overarching, but not monolithic, narrative-focused theological sensibility that moves beyond the conservative/liberal divide. Not to be confused with political ‘postliberalism’ – a response to liberal, market-driven economics – postliberal theology is a distinct...
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- Ronald T. Michener
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- Christianity
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- Theological methods
Natural Theology
- This article explores the biblical foundations and historical development of natural theology, noting in particular its relationship with the emergence of the natural sciences. After considering some questions of definition, the biblical foundations of natural theology are considered, follo...
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- Alister McGrath
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- Christianity
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- Theological methods
Missiology
- This article highlights key themes from history, current practice, and future directions in missiology. It traces the development of missiology as a discipline, highlighting some of the key voices, groups and movements along the way. It provides a brief overview of the history of missiology, ...
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- James Butler, Harvey Kwiyani, and Cathy Ross
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- Christianity
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- Theological methods
Queer Theology
- This entry establishes the contested nature of ‘queer’ as a term and provides an overview of some significant theoretical perspectives on queerness. It then outlines the emergence of queer Christian theology as it developed from both theological reflections on LGBT+ sexuality and gender var...
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- Jack Slater and Susannah Cornwall
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
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- Theological methods
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...
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- Olli-Pekka Vainio
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
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Missio Dei
- Missio Dei represents a missiological attempt to articulate a theocentric concept of mission with reference to the missionary nature and act of the triune God. This attempt arose as a reaction to the ecclesiocentric understanding of mission which was predominant within the Western global ...
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- Chung-Hyun Baik and Sinwoong Kim
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
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- Theological methods
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