Poetry and the Play of the Goddess: Theology in Jayaratha’s Alaṃkāravimarśinī
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DOI: 10.1007/s10781-020-09434-1
Abstract: The beginning of Jayaratha’s commentary on Ruyyaka’s Alaṃkārasarvasva contains a long digression on the nature of the goddess Parā Vāc, “Highest Speech,” referred to in Ruyyaka’s benedictory verse. This is an unusual choice in a… read more here.
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John Owen and English Puritanism: Experiences of Defeat. By Crawford Gribben. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xiv + 401 pp. $74.00 cloth.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0009640717000890
Abstract: Galilee” (645). This revived a moral-influence theory of the atonement. Neologians wanted “to sever the link between theology and religious experience” so there became space “wherein scholars were permitted to engage critically with the tradition.”… read more here.
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Fruits of the Cross: Passiontide Music Theater in Habsburg Vienna. By Robert L. Kendrick. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019. xvi + 220 pp. $70.00 hardcover.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0009640720000372
Abstract: divine predestination and efficacious grace as it was to their Puritan foes at home. The resolution of this paradox in the fifth chapter entails a full exposition of “high” Jansenist theology, not only in comparison… read more here.
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Maximilian Hell (1720–92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe. By Per Pippin Aspass and László Kontler. Jesuit Studies 27. Leiden: Brill, 2020. x + 477 pp. $186.00 hardcover; open access.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0009640721000408
Abstract: Edwards’s legacy is well known and highly regarded, it has not always been appreciated that he was more than a lone genius whose theology profoundly influenced the colonies and nascent evangelicalism. Bezzant’s work shows that… read more here.
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Is All Hindu Theology Comparative Theology?
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DOI: 10.1017/s0017816018000378
Abstract: The Hindu tradition consists of a collection of ancient and new spiritual lineages (sampradāyas), each with their own teachings, loosely connected through recognition of a set of common sacred texts. One of the larger and… read more here.
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Tom McLeish, Faith and Wisdom in Science, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 304. £18.99/$23.32 (hbk).
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DOI: 10.1017/s0036930615000617
Abstract: Philosophers, theologians and scientists have long been discussing the models which best represent the interaction between science and religion. They bring historical evidence, refer to scripture and give expert information from the fields they specialise… read more here.
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David Rylaarsdam, John Chrysostom on Divine Pedagogy: The Coherence of his Theology and Preaching, Oxford Early Christian Studies (Oxford: OUP, 2014), pp. xxvi + 317. £ 65.00.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0036930615000691
Abstract: (rightly?) shoots a villain despite her pacifism, and (rightly?) experiences remorse. Gill takes this to be a vote in pluralism’s favour: non-pluralists hold that, if the shooting was right, the remorse is misplaced, or if… read more here.
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Graham Beynon, Isaac Watts: Reason, Passion and the Revival of Religion (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2016), ppviii + 220.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0036930617000199
Abstract: and the new cultural trends it will bring in simply invalidate today’s theological enquiries, or are we making progress towards some more complete theological understanding? Where is the operation of God in all of this?… read more here.
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Brandon Gallaher, Freedom and Necessity in Modern Trinitarian Theology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. xx + 298, £75.00.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0036930617000254
Abstract: This monograph, a reworking of Gallaher’s doctoral thesis, sets an ambitious goal – to explore the ‘problematic’ of ‘[h]ow can God as Trinity be free in creation and redemption if in His everlasting love for… read more here.
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Recovering the unity of theology by means of mariology
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DOI: 10.1017/s003693061900005x
Abstract: Abstract This paper argues that Western theology has lost a certain intellectual unity by becoming divided between dogmatic theology (or doctrine) and moral theology (or ethics). The history of theological reflection on Mary illustrates this,… read more here.
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Not Moses, but David: Theology and politics in Psalm 78
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DOI: 10.1017/s0036930620000253
Abstract: Abstract Psalm 78 is a lengthy psalm with puzzling phrasing, which presents a peculiar historiography and enigmatic entities. The article begins by highlighting the omission of Moses in the psalm's chronological review, a feature that… read more here.
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