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Religions, Volume 14, Issue 4

April 2023 - 131 articles

Cover Story: In Western theological reflection, the relationship between openness and commitment in interreligious dialogue is often construed as a relationship between two ends of a seesaw: raising one end lowers the other. One cannot therefore be simultaneously fully committed and open. This paper argues that this is the case because in many modern and postmodern epistemologies of religion, both commitment and openness are primarily rooted in the capacities of the religious subject. However, Christianity understands faith as a response to the divine initiative of God in Christ, and therefore, it understands commitment as grounded in confidence in this decisive divine salvific event. From this standpoint, both full confidence and openness are reconcilable and can even strengthen each other rather than being considered incompatible and in competition. View this paper
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Articles (131)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,205 Views
18 Pages

Ólöf the Rich and a Cloth from Svalbarð, Iceland

  • Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir and
  • Guðjón Þór Erlendsson

21 April 2023

About fifteen illustrated cloths have been preserved from medieval times in Iceland. One of them is an antependium from Svalbarð church on Svalbarðsströnd. The embroidered iconography on it is believed to depict the story of John the Apo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,164 Views
16 Pages

21 April 2023

Latin American liberation theology appears to be an obsolete phenomenon that is unable to speak about the realities of today’s world. Since the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith published two instructions on liberation theology, the Va...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,044 Views
15 Pages

20 April 2023

Islamic analytic theology emerges into an uncharted territory that is dominated by two loosely defined areas: analytic philosophy and analytic theology. As a nascent field, this article argues that for Islamic analytic theology to move forward, it ne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
13,662 Views
12 Pages

20 April 2023

Cultural and Religious Diversity in ECE is discussed from multiple perspectives and influenced by different parameters. In this context, culturally and religiously sensitive education faces various dynamic and conflictual challenges, such as differen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,613 Views
17 Pages

20 April 2023

The concept of community within Confucianism is deeply rooted in its unique understanding of individuals. This is exemplified by Xunzi, who claims that individuals, driven by their growing desires for satisfaction, would fight over limited resources...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,778 Views
10 Pages

20 April 2023

Mother Mary has been and can be a spiritual role model for Korean Catholics to live out their faith, a faith that is based on a dynamic understanding of a spiritual model of Mary, that is, spiritual growth coming from Eastern Mariology, particularly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,119 Views
9 Pages

20 April 2023

This article focuses on the symbolic use of dragons in several works by J. R. R. Tolkien and The Golden Legend, a popular compilation of saints’ lives by Jacobus de Voragine. In the medieval tradition, as recounted by Voragine, dragons serve as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,877 Views
19 Pages

19 April 2023

This essay serves two purposes. First, it wants to introduce readers to John D. Caputo’s Radical Theology by way of his recent Specters of God (2022) in which his radical theology truly comes to fruition. The essay provides in this introduction...

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Religions - ISSN 2077-1444