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Religions, Volume 8, Issue 4

April 2017 - 30 articles

Cover Story: This article examines the pedagogical challenges and value of using objectionable texts in the classroom by way of two case studies: Martin Luther’s writings on Jews and two works by J.S. Bach. The use of morally or otherwise offensive materials in the classroom has the potential to degrade the learning environment or even produce harm if not carefully managed. On the other hand, historically informed instructors can use difficult works to model good scholarly methodology and offer useful contexts for investigating of contemporary issues. Moral judgments about historical actors and events are inevitable, the authors argue, so the instructor’s responsibility is to seize the opportunity for constructive dialogue. View the paper here.
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Articles (30)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
10,580 Views
12 Pages

11 April 2017

Martin Luther wrote and preached on the Lord’s Prayer many times over a 20-year period. When we consider his work on the Prayer we see significant developments as the historical context changes, so that he finds new ways to express his most fundament...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,364 Views
18 Pages

11 April 2017

At an annual American Academy of Religion conference thirty years ago, Robert Scharlemann presented a paper in which he compared and contrasted Barth and Tillich with reference to how they named God in their respective theologies. He suggested that t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
8,868 Views
12 Pages

Religious Coping as Moderator of Psychological Responses to Stressful Events: A Longitudinal Study

  • Felipe E. García,
  • Darío Páez,
  • Alejandro Reyes-Reyes and
  • Rodolfo Álvarez

7 April 2017

The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of positive and negative religious coping with posttraumatic symptoms (PTS) and growth (PTG). Their moderating role was also examined among predictors such as social support and the subjective sev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,743 Views
16 Pages

7 April 2017

When the apocalyptic is marginalized, not only is theology under threat of malpractice, but phenomenology is also, for at the core of apocalyptic thinking is the attempt to restrain the totalities that are at work implicitly in our social imaginaries...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,266 Views
11 Pages

6 April 2017

This article argues that Franz Theodor Csokor’s three-act drama, Dritter November 1918: Ende der Armee Österreich-Ungarns (Third of November 1918: End of the Army in Austria-Hungary) reveals how Jewish difference played an important—if often unrecogn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,484 Views
12 Pages

5 April 2017

I examine what I call Eckhart’s doctrine of indistinction as a precursor to Heidegger’s approach to the worldhood of the world. Taking cues from textual evidence in various sections of Heidegger’s texts and lecture courses, I demonstrate that Heidegg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,534 Views
12 Pages

4 April 2017

This article addresses the final two books of the 1596 edition of Spenser’s Faerie Queene, in which there arises a formidable adversary: the Blatant Beast. This monster, whose presence dominates the end of Book Five and a substantial portion of Book...

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Religions - ISSN 2077-1444