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Theology in Latin America
- This article will survey the historical process behind, and the main topics of, Christian theology as it developed and appears today in Latin America. It will first make a historical retrieval of how this theology had, for a large time, a European configuration, reinforced by a strong roman...
- Author
- Maria Clara Bingemer
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
Theology in India
- This article provides an overview of the structure and content of the various theological streams that have shaped Indian Christianity over two millennia. The theology of the ancient St. Thomas Christians, widely considered the earliest Christian group in India, though embedded in the litur...
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- Jesudas Athyal
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
Theology in Africa
- This article provides a broad overview of key issues that have animated theology in Africa. It thinks of theology in Africa as African Christian theology and engages the key issues from a historical and continental perspective. It shows how Christian theology in Africa has engaged key issue...
- Author
- David Ngong
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
Systematic Theology in the Nordic Countries after 1945
- Christian systematic theologies in the Nordic countries share common traits in terms of their Lutheran heritage and the close relationship between church and state (‘folk-church’) organizations that have dominated church life and theological reasoning up until the present. Although internat...
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- Jan-Olav Henriksen
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
Womanist Theology
- Womanist theology is a theology derived from the context, voice, action, and agency of Black women of the African Diaspora. It is grounded in – but also is a critique of – the failings of Black (overtly male) and feminist (overtly white female) liberation theologies that preceded it. Womanist...
- Author
- Diana L. Hayes
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
The Theology of the Council of Nicaea
- The Council of Nicaea in 325 was a critical theological and institutional watershed between the local and often diverse theologies of one God as Trinity in the second- and third-century Christian communities and the universal or catholic credal statements of the ancient imperial church th...
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- Rebecca Lyman
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
Post-Holocaust Theology
- The Shoah (Holocaust) has raised a number of questions to which Jewish philosophers, theologians, and historians have given different answers. This article offers a survey of how Jewish thinkers have shaped the memory of the Shoah and how they reimagined Judaism after the catastrophe. In the ...
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- Ephraim Meir
- Faith tradition
- Judaism
- Topics
- Theological movements
Caitanya Vaiṣṇavism
- This article examines various aspects of the Caitanya Vaiṣṇava tradition, a Hindu devotional tradition that centres on devotion to the deity Krishna (Kṛṣṇa). First, the entry provides a historical overview, followed by a description of how the tradition views Krishna as an omnipotent, omnib...
- Author
- Akshay Gupta
- Faith tradition
- Hinduism
- Topics
- Theological movements
Sufism
- Sufism is concerned with a broad trend within Islamicate societies towards expressing how taṣawwuf, as a path of spiritual refinement, has impacted religious, social, and political modes of human endeavour. If we look at taṣawwuf more specifically, we can identify a vibrant discourse of tho...
- Author
- Aiyub Palmer
- Faith tradition
- Islam
- Topics
- Theological movements
Chinese Christian Theology
- This article offers an overview of some of the major Christian theological themes that have arisen from the concerns of Chinese Catholic and Protestant Christians since the seventeenth century. It explores contextual factors that have shaped competing categories of loyalty, from differing c...
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- Alexander Chow and Stephanie Wong
- Faith tradition
- Christianity
- Topics
- Theological movements
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