Pub Date : 2020-02-03DOI: 10.1080/10477845.2019.1696385
Aldo Di Giovanni
Abstract This article summarizes a number of Spinoza texts relating to his Christology and soteriology based on his Christology. The texts show that Spinoza’s Christology underpins his formulation of human nature or the constitution of the essence of the human mind. Considering Spinoza’s texts concerning God or Nature, “Christ according to the spirit”, the spirit or mind of Christ, and human salvation or blessedness; this article illustrates that given the texts, the study of Spinoza’s Christian religion is skewed and ought to be more balanced. The author’s reading of Spinoza and its application to his work presented in this article provides a coherent and tenable understanding of Spinoza’s efforts “to commend and establish the authentic purpose of the Christian Religion”.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-03DOI: 10.1080/10477845.2020.1721666
T. P. Milas
Abstract Faith significantly affects the educational experience in graduate studies of religion and theology. This study explored the roles of graduate theological students’ religious faith and degree program affiliation in their information behaviors, particularly their degree-related research behaviors at Claremont School of Theology. The purpose was to explore problems in information action inherent to the dichotomy between academic study of theology that leads to Master of Arts (MA) degree and professional study of theology that leads to Master of Divinity (MDiv) degree. The research design incorporated interviews of MA and MDiv students regarding the roles of their religious faith, degree program affiliation and interpersonal information sources in their research processes. Data were collected, coded and analyzed as a lens into the social network of the theological research community. The study found that information behavior does relate to degree program affiliations and students’ religious faith. Degree program affiliation and religious faith background are relevant to graduate theological research processes and may be useful to consider in research consultations and bibliographic instruction in graduate theological education.
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Pub Date : 2019-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10477845.2017.1378050
Daniel R. Sietman
ABSTRACT This paper explores Matthew's presentation of Jesus as the new Moses, and will proceed in four steps. First, we will examine the relationship between law-giving and the offices of prophet and king in the Hebrew Bible as well as the writings of the community at Qumran. Second, we will examine in detail Matthew's Jesus-as-Moses theme. Third, we will offer a paradigmatic example of how one aspect of Torah is reworked by Jesus, namely that of divorce and remarriage, and fourth, we will offer some interpretive guidance for future research that would seek to apply Jesus's teaching on divorce and remarriage in a Western context.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-12DOI: 10.1080/10477845.2019.1660464
Wayne Finley
Abstract Between 2004 and 2007, four authors – Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens – published books critical of religion and promoting atheism. What set these works apart was that they were all published by major publishers and received critical acclaim. Three of the books would even go on to make the New York Times Best Seller list. Together, the four authors became know as the Four Horsemen of New Atheism. This article presents a brief overview of New Atheism and The Four Horsemen of New Atheism, author biographies, and reviews of the Four Horsemen’s works from 2004–2007, which, collectively, outline the core ideas of the New Atheists.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10477845.2019.1606188
R. Ridinger
Abstract The contribution of archaeology to religious history has often been one of providing verification and clarification of accepted textual statements (if available) and expanding the knowledge of the physical forms of a specific branch of a major belief system. While the place of archaeological researches within the development of Biblical studies is somewhat familiar to scholars of Christian history, its association with the history of eastern Christianity is less well-known. This article will focus on one of the more unique denominations within the eastern Christian community, the Coptic Orthodox Church, and the varied ways in which archaeologyaeology and its allied disciplines have illuminated its past.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10477845.2019.1613076
Wendell G. Johnson
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10477845.2019.1605578
Mereet Hany Adly
Abstract With the centennial jubilee of the Sunday School Movement (SSM) occurring in 2018, this article explores two main questions: what are the main features of the Coptic community as imagined by the leaders of the SSM? And what is the nature of the relationship between “Coptic” Christian and “national Egyptian” identities within the dominant discourse of the SSM? The article argues that the contemporary Coptic identity, as reconstituted by the SSM, helps the Coptic community to survive as a vertical ethnie. The new Coptic identity is rooted in and relies upon the exclusive use of demotic symbols and narratives. Thus equipped, modern Copts perceive themselves as part of an imagined spiritual community within the wider Egyptian community. Indeed, this article argues that the SSM’s discourse presents a unique ‘marble cake’ model wherein religious and national identities are both present. By portraying Coptism as the area of interplay between Christianity and Egyptian-ness, the SSM blends “biological” and “cultural-ideological” modes of myth-making. Accordingly, to identify as Copt becomes equivalent to identifying as Egyptian.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10477845.2019.1605579
Wendell G. Johnson
The earliest chronological report linking Jesus to Egypt is the infancy narrative in the Gospel of Matthew (2: 13–18). The author writes that Joseph and Mary fled to Egypt in order to save Jesus from Herod’s edict to kill all the male children in Jerusalem (“the Massacre of the Innocents,’ memorialized by Peter Paul Rubens, among others). In Coptic tradition, the Holy Family (Mary, Joseph, and Jesus) traveled across the Sinai Peninsula and made their way to the Roman fortress of Babylon (Old Cairo). Joseph used the gold, frankincense and myrrh presented to the baby Jesus by the three wise men from the “East” (Matthew 2: 1–12) to hire a boat to take his family to Upper Egypt. Coptic literature claims that the Holy Family spent precisely 185 days in Egypt (Kamil 2002). It is doubtful that this pericope can be linked to the establishment of a Christian community in Egypt. However, the next reference to Egypt in the New Testament is found in Acts 2: 9–11, which tells of Egyptian visitors to Jerusalem during Pentecost, which may point to the origin of a Christian community west of Sinai.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10477845.2019.1606175
Larissa K Garcia
Abstract This article examines a variety of specialized encyclopedias from several disciplines that can be used to introduce students to the topic of Coptic art. The reference works included here can be found in a variety of academic libraries, from Carnegie research institutions to learning resource centers in community libraries, and will help students develop the foundational knowledge necessary to approach more specific topics within Coptic art. Although students may be comfortable, with varying degrees of effectiveness, searching the online catalog or navigating library databases to find books and journal articles, they are, for the most part, unaware of the wealth of useful information found on the metaphorical reference shelves. It is here that librarians can serve a valuable role identifying specific reference titles that introduce students to scholarly texts on a myriad of topics.
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Pub Date : 2019-06-27DOI: 10.1080/10477845.2019.1617580
T. P. Milas
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