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Religion as an Empowerer of the Oppressed: A Study of Liberation Theology, Engaged Buddhism, and Pentecostal Serpent Handlers
Liberation theology, "engaged Buddhism" (specifically the movement started by Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar), and the Pentecostal serpent handling faith all share one commonality: they appear to empower the oppressed of their ...
"in the image of God...male and female he created them": Three Ancient Interpretations of Genesis 1:26-28
For Christians, nearly every influential religious writer from the first century onwards included scriptural interpretation in his/her philosophizing and apologetics. Thinking about the Church, about the Christian life, ...
The Contested Role of Women in Early Christianity: An Examination of the Evidence in the Gospels, the Pauline Letters, Deutro-Pauline Letters, and Selected Extra-canonical Texts
Feminist Biblical scholarship has begun to present interpretations of the Bible that differ from earlier text and form biblical criticism. Feminist scholars are negotiating the tensions and
contradictions within the text ...
"Here I stand" (in two places): David Tracy's Interpretive Theory and its Application on Luther's Reading of the Pauline Corpus
Thus, interpretation must go about the work of "overcoming distance and cultural differences and of matching the reader to a text which has become foreign, thereby incorporating its meaning into the present comprehension ...
An Eccentric Orthodoxy: The Contours of Flannery O'Connor's Literary Catholicism
Some of O'Connor's characters come right out and ask traditional theological questions about the suffering of the innocent or the difficulties inherent in the doctrine of bodily resurrection. Other characters, meanwhile, ...
She Closes Her Eyes to Herself: Nietzsche, Feminism, and Christianity
This paper works to examine the lives and arguments of early Christian female ascetics and modern feminist Christians through the lens of Friedrich Nietzsche. The arguments against orthodox Christianity presented in Nietzsche ...
The Philosopher of Pluralism: An Examination of John Hick's Pluralist Hypothesis
An innovative philosopher of religion and renowned theologian, John Hick is deeply concerned with the manifold issues surrounding the modern inter-religious dialogue. Recognizing
both the validity of human thought and ...