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From:Leadership Journal (Vol. 36, Issue 2)THE NEGLECTED POWER OF BLESSING In her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Gilead, Marilynne Robinson's fictional narrator is an elderly pastor named John Ames living in the small Iowa town of Gilead. His best friend,...
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From:Mennonite Quarterly Review (Vol. 77, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Yoder placed the nonviolent earthly Jesus at the center of his theological enterprise, offering a sharp critique of Constantinianism and constructing an ethics of nonviolent discipleship. But his legacy leaves...
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From:Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge (Vol. 11, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the wake of the "war on terror" and the emergence of a global surveillance regime shrouded in secrecy during the first part of the 21st century, notions of "empire" and the "white man's burden" (including "saving"...
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From:Interpretation (Vol. 57, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAccording to Luke, Jesus commends in word and action a vision of God's domain as one defined by grace--welcoming, inclusive grace received and, in turn, extended to others. Grace is a central and persistent biblical...
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From:Theological Studies (Vol. 61, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed[The author argues that despite real diversities among different kinds of liberation theologians, they are all on a common journey, heading along different paths toward the same destination. A common element, their...
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From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Issue 198)Judaism is not a doctrine but a life--the continuation of the lives of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Or so Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) often said. To learn Jewish theology, then, is to relive the history of God's...
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From:Cross Currents (Vol. 67, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOver the course of the last few decades, questions surrounding what encompasses a minimally Brazilian religion (MBR) have been discussed and debated in conjunction with the consolidation of the religious studies field....
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From:Theological Studies (Vol. 57, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe relationship between the human and divine natures of Jesus Christ is accurately expressed in the 'anhypostasis-enhypostasis' formula. These linked Greek terms, originally developed by Leontius of Byzantium, show how...
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From:Theological Studies (Vol. 74, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTheologians disagree on whether Christians can know what in particular God wills. Appropriate decisions often conflict with decisions God seems to want us humans to make. Methods of discernment are numerous and...
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From:Journal of Psychology and Theology (Vol. 39, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCommunity psychology and liberation theologies share an emphasis on personal and social transfor-mation through a process of liberation. Emerging in the 1960s in the climate of social change movements, both fields serve...
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From:Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought (Vol. 50, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"Are you not like the Ethiopians to me, O people of Israel?" saith the Lord. "Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir? - Amos 9:7 LET US...
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From:Interpretation (Vol. 57, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Reformed witness to grace may be even more needed today than it was in the sixteenth century, since now Pelagianism seems comfortably at home in the Reformed churches. But the question is whether "sovereign grace"...
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From:Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought (Vol. 54, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedJUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY ARE INEXORABLY LINKED WITH one another. We share a common scripture, we believe in the same God, we have similar moral values, Jesus was Jewish, and, for better or for worse, we have lived...
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From:Cross Currents (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI am grateful to Warren Zev Harvey, Susannah Heschel, Judith Kates, and Catherine Madsen for stimulating conversations on these issues over the years. Needless to say, they bear no responsibility for my views or errors....
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From:The Ecumenical Review (Vol. 52, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedUnity, Mission and Social Responsibility as Inescapably Inter-related Challenges An epistle from the Cape of Good Hope I am writing this article in the city of Cape Town. As long ago as 1806 William Carey...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 62, Issue 18)Religion and tenure, it seems, have a challenging relationship. Over time, the statements of faith that some Christian colleges require their faculty members to sign as a condition of employment have run up against...
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From:The Review of Metaphysics (Vol. 72, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe Knowledge of God's Quid Sit in Dominican Theology: From Saint Thomas to Ferrariensis, IGOR AGOSTINI In this article, the author argues that although the prevailing interpretation within the Thomistic contemporary...
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From:European Judaism (Vol. 50, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract In a paper given at the Von Hugel Institute in Cambridge the author introduces the document recently issued by the Vatican, 'The Gifts and the Calling of God are Irrevocable'. He outlines the streak of...
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From:Alternatives: Global, Local, Political (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Religion has been used by many scholars as an analytical category and an independent variable to account for the variances in governance and political violence. Very often, religion is decontex-tuafized,...
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From:International Bulletin of Missionary Research (Vol. 33, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFor two days in September 2006, at a conference in Tehran, I was immersed within Iranian Shi'ite Mahdist eschatology. About four thousand were present; five were Christian, with three of the Christians invited to make...