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Incriminating The Bride Of Christ: Assessing From A Balthasarian Perspective The Ecclesiological Impact Of Redefining Marriage, Daniel Avila
Incriminating The Bride Of Christ: Assessing From A Balthasarian Perspective The Ecclesiological Impact Of Redefining Marriage, Daniel Avila
Daniel Avila
Examining the Marriage Definition Issue through the Lens of Hans Urs von Balthasar's Trinitarian Theology and the Impact on the Structure of the Church
Book Review: The Rivers Of Paradise: Moses, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, And Muhammad As Religious Founders, David Freedman, Michael Mcclymond, Deborah Sommer
Book Review: The Rivers Of Paradise: Moses, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, And Muhammad As Religious Founders, David Freedman, Michael Mcclymond, Deborah Sommer
Deborah A. Sommer
In his introduction to Rivers of Paradise, David Noel Freedman explains how the book finds a guiding metaphor in a passage from Genesis (2:10–14) that relates how a river emerges from Eden and splits into four different rivers that flow to different parts of the world. He associates these five rivers with five “great personality religions of the world,” which are traditions “originating in and centering around the person, the life and experience, of a single individual—as it happens all of them men” (p. 2). These “founding fathers” are Moses, the Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and Muhammad, in that order; …