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Christian Theology
- Christian theology is a multifaceted discipline that encompasses the study of God, religious beliefs, and the practice of faith within the Christian tradition. This article introduces Christian theology in its substantial, structural, biblical, historical, and contextual dimensions. Section...
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- Judith Wolfe
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Conciliar Christology
- Conciliar Christology is the Christology of the first seven ecumenical councils of the Christian Church. The article presents this, and then discusses the motivations for considering Conciliar Christology when theorizing about the incarnation. These motivations include the historical ground...
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- Timothy Pawl
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- Christianity
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Disability Theology
- Disability theology is a field of study that addresses various theological questions in relation to, and through the lens of, disability. Christian theologians have pondered the meaning of disability and developed pastoral responses to it since the patristic period, although the discourse o...
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- Medi Ann Volpe
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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
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- Christianity
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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
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- Christianity
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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
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- Christianity
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Orthodox Pastoral Theology
- This brief article delineates Orthodox pastoral theology by chiefly emphasizing the organic connection between Liturgical/sacramental life and social/pastoral involvement in the Christian Orthodox tradition. It shows how Orthodox pastoral theology, in encompassing the entire life of the Chu...
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- Razvan Porumb
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- Christianity
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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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Threefold Office of Jesus as Prophet, Priest, and King
- The threefold office (munus triplex) identifies Jesus Christ as prophet, priest, and king, and it draws on these titles to advance theological accounts of his saving work. Although the munus triplex is typically associated with John Calvin and the Reformed tradition, it holds broad signific...
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- Paul Dafydd Jones
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- Christianity
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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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