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Identity, Prejudice, and Mysticism: Exploring Sustainable Narratives of Peace Across Religious Borders
This chapter contests that “mystics” provide common ground for harmonious coexistence. Those identified as “mystics” across Buddhist, Christian, and...
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Transcending the Letter, Awakening the Mind: Maximos the Confessor and Tsong kha pa and the Challenge of Textual Supersessionism
The goal of this chapter will compare and contrast two allegorical traditions of lectio divina, focusing on the Byzantine author Maximos the...
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Introduction
Introduction of the key research questions, research methodology, and sources and sco** of the research.
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The Fourth Category: Traditional Jewish Monotheism , Christological Monotheism , and Oneness Pentecostalism
Oneness Pentecostal perspectives of Jewish and Christian Monotheism are central to this chapter, which establishes why Oneness theology can no longer...
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Eschatology Now: The Catholic Case
Eschatology emerged as a focal concern following eventual papal approval of the historical-critical approach to biblical interpretation and the...
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Taha Abd al-Rahman’s Islamic Worldview and the Spirit of Modernity
Arab-Islamic thinkers voice much objection to Western thought. Yet, being in modern times faintly related to philosophy in general, they are in a...
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Randomness in the Cosmos
After an introduction of the concepts of randomness and determinacy, I present simple definitions of ‘random number or variable’ or ‘random event’,...
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John Milbank (1): A Deeper Critique of the Secular
This chapter introduces the work of John Milbank and contains a comparison of the work of Milbank and Charles Taylor, specifically looking at their...
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Randomness and Providence: Defining the Problem(s)
In this chapter, we outline the various problems that ontological randomness is supposed to present to God’s providence, as understood by traditional...
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Katie Geneva Cannon’s Cross-Cultural and Bridge-Building Womanist Ethics
The central focus of this chapter is on the concept of the human person as deserving dignity and respect, a theological claim upon which Katie Geneva...
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Pope John Paul II on Church, State, and the Ground of Religious Freedom
John Paul II devoted much of the time and energy of his papacy (1978–2005), 27 years long, to addressing practical issues in concrete situations...
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Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: The Catholic Church’s Position on Abortion
Since the time of its institution, the Catholic Church has consistently and unequivocally condemned direct, intentional termination of pregnancy at...
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Theology
Theology and theological ideas have shaped the study of Global Christianity. This chapter introduces three areas of theological reflection that have...
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Forsaken by God
The author surveys Christian interpretations of the book of Job and the nature of suffering in general before turning to a comparison of the...
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Lockdown and Sexual Exploitation
This chapter uses the theological concept of sanctuary in order to unpack the assumptions of the “stay at home” approach. This is partly aimed at...
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Christendom’s Constitution: “The Clashing Swords of Church and State in History”
The medieval world is often conceived as a world of autocrats and injustices, a volatile interlude between the more sophisticated political and legal...
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“The Epistemic Significance of adbhutarasa: Aestheticized Wonder as a Virtue of Inquiry”
This analysis holds that just as wisdom is good for its own sake, the effervescent perfuming of aesthetic pleasure in rasa , camatkāra , need not be...
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Caught in the Crossfire: Toward Understanding Medieval and Early Modern Advocates of Church Union
This chapter critically engages modern historical research on a series of Later Medieval and Early Modern intellectuals and ecclesiastics who...
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Salvation or Damnation: From Paul to Augustine
Paul wrote that salvation rests on God’s power of election. Against the common teaching, Origen argued that everyone would eventually be saved...