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Religions, Volume 16, Issue 2

February 2025 - 163 articles

Cover Story: This study demonstrates that Mesopotamian epistemology and hermeneutics were still influential and that cuneiform was still read in the Near East when the Gospels of John and Thomas were written. It explores the Thomas/Twin motif in the two Gospels, which is significant in both, from the perspective of cuneiform culture and presents its groundbreaking findings. Based on the analysis, logia in the Gospel of Thomas corroborate the tradition that the Gospel is a product of (Western) Mesopotamia. The results therefore challenge recent scholarship on the subject. In addition, they bring to light previously overlooked sources that the Fourth Evangelist exploited to develop his Gospel's symbolism, esotericism, and theological narrative, suggesting that in its use of Mesopotamian sources, John resembles Revelation. View this paper
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Articles (163)

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4 Citations
4,828 Views
30 Pages

19 February 2025

The Franciscan presence in China is one of the first expressions of the Chinese encounter with Christianity. Despite the significant number of preserved documents and archives, research on the Franciscans in China is still limited. Furthermore, previ...

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1,420 Views
11 Pages

19 February 2025

Black Theology of Liberation, particularly in South Africa, has always been for Black people in the world and produced theological reflections through the lens of Black people. In the evolving scholarship on BTL, there has been challenges in its midd...

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  • Open Access
2,450 Views
15 Pages

19 February 2025

“If there is no space in our faith communities where children can participate in theological work, how can children create a theology that will liberate them?” R.L. Stollar asks in his book, The Kingdom of Children: A Liberation Theology...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,187 Views
15 Pages

19 February 2025

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the interface between mental health and areas formerly viewed as unrelated (the arts, philosophy and religion). In this article, I zoom in on the ways in which central texts and insights from the Daoist c...

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  • Open Access
1,769 Views
24 Pages

19 February 2025

This study clarifies the religious traditions underlying the façade-type clay architectural models unearthed from ancient Western Asia by analyzing their iconography apropos each period. The façade-type models considered in this study a...

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  • Open Access
2,295 Views
16 Pages

18 February 2025

The epistle to the Ephesians, like other Christian texts, teaches that life in the new creation, although not yet fully manifest, is already powerfully and sufficiently available to the church. However, this epistle uniquely has the predominant descr...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,703 Views
30 Pages

18 February 2025

Contrary to popular notions of a perpetual antagonism between ‘Hinduism’ and ‘Islam’, played out on Indian soil over the centuries, this article examines the relatively recent origins of a Hindu–Muslim conflict in South...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,753 Views
18 Pages

18 February 2025

This article comprehensively analyzes the conceptual and methodological differences between tafsīr and fiqh, two core disciplines in Islamic scholarship, emphasizing their respective relationships with the Qur’ān. The study employs a...

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1,743 Views
18 Pages

18 February 2025

This article reconsiders literature’s capacity to express and evoke spiritual experiences by turning to William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience, especially his discussion of mysticism and his suggestion that poetry can bring...

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