In a series of three articles, presented at the Goshen Annual Conference on Science and Religion in 2015, with the theme ‘Interdisciplinary Theology and the Archeology of Personhood’, J. Wentzel van ...Huyssteen considers the problem of human evolution – also referred to as ‘the archaeology of personhood’ – and its broader impact on theological anthropology. This trajectory of lectures tracks a select number of challenging contemporary proposals for the evolution of crucially important aspects of human personhood. These are aspects that were all of great significance for Darwin: the evolution of cognition, the evolution of imagination, music and language, the evolution of morality, and the evolution of the religious disposition.
Kabbalah and Ecology is a groundbreaking book that resets the conversation about ecology and the Abrahamic traditions. David Mevorach Seidenberg challenges the anthropocentric reading of the Torah, ...showing that a radically different orientation to the more-than-human world of nature is not only possible, but that such an orientation also leads to a more accurate interpretation of scripture, rabbinic texts, Maimonides and Kabbalah. Deeply grounded in traditional texts and fluent with the physical sciences, this book proposes not only a new understanding of God's image but also a new direction for restoring religion to its senses and to a more alive relationship with the more-than-human, both with nature and with divinity.
In this dissertation, I contend that Indigenous Peoples of Traditional Spiritualities and Indigenous Christians share epistemological reverberations that can refute the hegemony of a specific form of ...US settler colonial Christianity. This Christianity of Empire places sin at the center of its theological anthropology, applying it disproportionately onto the bodies of Indigenous Peoples. Narratives of sin, to the detriment of their communities, especially target Native women. By untangling these white supremacist narratives linking a theological anthropology of sin to Indigenous bodies, Traditional and Christian Native communities are empowered to create dialogical, relational praxes and languages for spiritual and practical liberation, which dynamically resist settler colonial domination.
This dissertation emerges from interviews with parents who care for children living with a gastrointestinal ostomy. This project contributes to theological anthropology with the use of pastoral ...theological and narrative qualitative methods and methodologies. This dissertation develops upon the theological construct of the imago Dei as irreducible, embodied, and relational. The central argument suggests that the imago Dei is a corrective to normalcy discourses. A normalcy discourse is a subjective, context-specific way of constituting what or who is “normal.” Normalcy discourses have the potential to marginalize some and include others. Normalcy discourses also have the potential to render as abject (disgusting, other, or fear-inducing) the bodies of children with gastrointestinal ostomies. This project evaluates the constraints and the creative potential of anxiety in understanding finite and vulnerable bodies and their historical, social, and ideological contexts. Finally, this dissertation proposes practices of care for pastors, chaplains, and lay leaders who accompany families through chronic illness and embodied differences.
This article highlights the critical distinction between Bonhoeffer’s theology of private confession of sin set forth in the collection of working papers from 1940–45, with that found in his other ...writings. I compare and contrast Bonhoeffer’s “normative account” of private confession with several distinctive aspects of his treatment of the theme in the essay, “The Best Physician,” and other remarks on confession from the same period. In these papers Bonhoeffer restated—albeit in attenuated form—some key points made in his other works on confession of sin and then, departing from his usual christological and ontological depiction, introduced a psychosomatic element not found in his other writings. I argue that the differences do not of necessity constitute a shift in his thinking, but in essence express a common perspective: Christ draws close to the weak. The apparent differences between the texts reflect more the context in which the papers were written than a change in Bonhoeffer’s position. Both the normative and divergent texts emphasize the high priority Bonhoeffer afforded private confession and give insight into the role this concept played in his ecclesiology and theological anthropology.
Kingdom tok is an expression that is increasingly used in Honiara. It describes a set of ideas and practices related to what Solomon Islanders see as a recent 'season' in their history. Such a season ...is characterised by the reappropriation of particular meanings of their faith that they perceive as influenced by recent historical processes such as the colonial era, the introduction of Christianity, and the first few decades from independence. In terms of 'Kingdom', they envision the possibility to challenge political hierarchies, social stratification, and issues of governance, as well as to re-define their identities in relation to a general state of empowerment. In Honiara, Pentecostal churches and groups with a strong identification with Judaism make use of Kingdom tok discourses. I claim that they experience the actualisation of Kingdom tok as concrete projects of social action and service provision, which they see as concrete alternatives to historical churches, the state, and the 'way of the waitman'.
The suggestion that the iTaukei (indigenous Fijians) are a lost tribe of Israel has gained currency among Methodists in the interior of Viti Levu, coexisting with a firm and widely held belief in the ...ancestors' emergence from the mystical Nakauvadra hills. For the people of Nabobuco, the Hebrew Bible's depiction of the relationship between Jehovah and the Israelites also contains powerful analogies with contemporary Christian experiences of collective sin and redemption. This paper discusses local genealogies and the use of the Old Testament to posit Nabobuco and Israel's moral equivalence within the Kingdom of God.
In comparative theology, an adherent of one religious tradition reflects on faith through deep and focused conversation with another tradition. This volume equips students of Christian theology for ...leadership in a pluralistic world through conversations about God, theodicy, humanity, Christology, and soteriology that take seriously the wisdom of religious neighbors.
Essays by Henry Corbin, Mircea Eliade, C. G. Jung, Max Knoll, G. van der Leeuw, Louis Massignon, Erich Neumann, Helmuth Plessner, Adolf Portmann, Henri-Charles Puech, Gilles Quispel, and Hellmut ...Wilhelm. With an introduction by Henry Corbin.
Originally published in 1957.
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