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Behinderung Und Veränderungen In Der Ethik-Theorie Und -Praxis, Hille Haker
Behinderung Und Veränderungen In Der Ethik-Theorie Und -Praxis, Hille Haker
Theology: Faculty Publications and Other Works
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I Am Black And Beautiful: An Examiniaton Of The Black Coptic Church As The Manifestation Of Liberation Theology, Leonard Mckinnis
I Am Black And Beautiful: An Examiniaton Of The Black Coptic Church As The Manifestation Of Liberation Theology, Leonard Mckinnis
Dissertations
What does the Black Coptic Church have to offer the study of Black theology? This is the essential question this dissertation seeks to examine through a descriptive and constructive analysis. I submit the doctrinal formulation of black liberation theology is locatable within the Black Coptic Church, which was founded, and still boasts its largest membership in Chicago. This is the tradition that has informed my own faith background and has played a tremendous role in my earlier theological convictions. In fact, I was attracted to this tradition as a young child because it seemed to offer its adherents a sense …
Agape And Personal Knowledge, Peter Eric Bergeron
Agape And Personal Knowledge, Peter Eric Bergeron
Dissertations
The aim of this dissertation is to explore the connection between love and personal knowledge and what Jesus' life and teaching reveal about the relationship between these. I want to distinguish that form of love or caring that makes relationships personal from those forms, like benevolence or compassion, where the concern is impersonal. It is commonly thought in contemporary Western culture that the autonomy necessary for mature moral agency or for the realization of one's unique personal identity is diminished by the influence of other persons. In contrast, I argue that the relational image of love, or agape, in the …
Canon As An Act Of Creation: Giorgio Agamben And The Extended Logic Of The Messianic, Colby Dickinson
Canon As An Act Of Creation: Giorgio Agamben And The Extended Logic Of The Messianic, Colby Dickinson
Theology: Faculty Publications and Other Works
The ‘messianic’ is one of philosophy’s most appropriated religious terms, yet one apparently now bereft of its historical religious particularity. This essay thus explores a genealogical approach to the ‘messianic’ which might prove helpful in uncovering the reasons for this transformation from the theological to the philosophical, and what role, if any, theology still has in determining the meaning and usage of this term. Accordingly, this essay traces the term through the work of Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben. This development is made against the backdrop of another religious term which indirectly pervades the work of all three …
Die Stellungnahme Der Europäischen Gruppe Für Ethik Der Naturwissenschaften Und Der Neuen Technologien (Ege) Zum Thema „Ethik Der Synthetischen Biologie, Hille Haker
Theology: Faculty Publications and Other Works
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Arvind Sharma And Katherine K. Young, Eds., Fundamentalism And Women In World Religions, Colby Dickinson
Arvind Sharma And Katherine K. Young, Eds., Fundamentalism And Women In World Religions, Colby Dickinson
Theology: Faculty Publications and Other Works
This article reviews the book, Fundamentalism and Women in World Religions edited by Arvind Sharma and Katherine K. Young.