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Browsing Research Articles (Dogmatics and Christian Ethics) by Title
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Benjamins, Rick
(AOSIS, 2023-08)
The relationship between theology and the sciences can be studied from a hermeneutical point of view. Essential to religion are experiences in which reality calls or addresses us. Ingolf Dalferth and John Caputo have ...
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Kroesbergen, Hermen
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-07-30)
Leadership in Africa is inextricably connected to the spirit world. Leaders may be chosen
through elections or other human processes, but ultimately, they are seen as appointed by
God. Leaders may base their decisions ...
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Orogun, Daniel; Pillay, Jerry
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2021-08-19)
This article engaged in critical analyses of the capitalistic nature of the practices of African
Neo-Pentecostal leaders with a focus on a few but most popular Nigerian and South African
Neo-Pentecostal leaders. Using ...
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Huber, Wolfgang
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2012-12-06)
Etienne de Villiers, more than other theologians, elaborates on basic elements of a Christian
ethics of responsibility. He distinguishes between retrospective and prospective responsibility.
The prospective aspect attracted ...
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Garbacea, Radu
(AOSIS, 2022-12-15)
Through the efforts of the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (IRHT), a list of manuscripts is available that preserves homilies on the healing of the paralytic. Included in this list is the codex Athonensis, ...
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Du Toit, Barend J.
(AOSIS, 2021-12-10)
How do we know that we can trust our viewpoints, our dogmatic principles and our
religious convictions to constitute veracity, if not truth? Where can an arbiter be found for
our deliberations to establish the trustworthiness ...
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Simion, Marian G.
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-04-28)
This article demonstrates that ritual plays an ambivalent role in the interaction between
religion and violence. Ritual triggers and gives meaning to violence, or it enforces peace and
coexistence. The first part of the ...
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Antombikums, Aku Stephen
(AOSIS, 2024-10)
The task of interpreting the Holy Scriptures has been a daunting enterprise throughout the
history of the Church. This article explores how analytic philosophy could be promising in
biblical interpretation. Notwithstanding ...
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Simut, Corneliu Cristian
(Biblioteca Centrala Universitara/Babes-Bolyai University, 2017)
This paper is an attempt to identify common factors which constitute the foun-dation of decolonization in indigenous African religions. Since such aspects need to be essentially constructive in order to effectively and ...
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Buitendag, Johan
(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)
The article's departing point is the conviction that contemporary micro-biology and gene-technology have confronted Christian ethics with a reality for which it is not sufficiently equipped. The whole debate on human cloning ...
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Murray, Montagu
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2022)
This article explores a novel perspective on Andrew Murray Jr, namely his
entrepreneurial spirit and characteristics. Instead of building on the view that he was
a mystic who gained his energy to contribute to the practical ...
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Schlebusch, Jan Adriaan
(Africa Journals, 2022)
The prominent Anti-Revolutionary philosopher and theologian, Philippus Jacobus Hoedemaker (1839–1910) operated in the Dutch politico-ecclesiastical scene. He achieved renown primarily because of his dispute with Abraham ...
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Antombikums, Aku Stephen
(AOSIS, 2024-01-20)
Religious encounters are essential to every religious tradition in which the worshipper
encounters the divine. Although religious experiences have been reported in many
religious traditions, they occupy a premium place ...
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Delport, Khegan M.
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2023-11)
The Christian doctrine of theosis teaches that the natural end of creatures is union with the Holy Trinity, the supernatural end of nature – both human and non-human. However, through certain developments in modernity, ...
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Morariu, Iuliu-Marius
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-04-23)
An important personality of the Swedish cultural space and of the world diplomatic space,
Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961), left to posterity, besides his literary works, his economic and
diplomatic contributions, the most ...
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Morariu, Iuliu-Marius
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-08)
By resorting to the spiritual autobiography of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, an important religious
and cultural personality of the 20th century, the author tries to emphasise the aspects of
political theology that defined ...
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Morariu, Iuliu-Marius
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-05-02)
Despite its importance for the understanding of ideas and the genesis of Nicholas Berdiaev’s
works, his spiritual autobiography, written at the end of his life, has not been fructified enough
by contemporary research ...
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Morariu, Iuliu-Marius
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-07-24)
It has been often said nowadays that since the fall of Constantinople, the Eastern-Orthodox
Church has not been concerned with political theology. In this research, we will try to show
that aspects of the aforementioned ...
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Morariu, Iuliu-Marius
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2021-08-18)
An important personality of the Catholic space of the 20th century and, at the same time, of the
ecumenical and the inter-religious, Thomas Merton (1915–1968) is one of the most important
authors of spiritual autobiographies ...
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Peters, Ted
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2021-08-26)
Public theology is conceived in the church, reflected on critically in the academy and addressed to
the world for the sake of the world. The development of a theology of nature is included in the
public theologian’s list ...