Encyclopedia of Religion

discourse both producing and produced by spiritual feminist ritual practice and celebration. Thealogy’s focus on female moral, s ...

gians are generally content to subscribe to a fluid combina- tion of all of these views. Carol P. Christ and Starhawk are the wo ...

Griffin, Wendy, ed. Daughters of the Goddess: Studies of Healing, Identity, and Empowerment. Lanham, Md., 2000. A collec- tion o ...

umented the experiences of pilgrims who came to the shrine in search of healing, among them women from a wide range of social ba ...

search for the true, the good, the beautiful, and the holy. They distinguish between the ultimate mystery of being and mysteries ...

anthropomorphism in depicting the One. And it is on the foundation of the self-existent, immutable One as the es- sence of perfe ...

choice is compatible with foreknowledge of what the choice will be, let alone compatible with the necessary fulfillment of the o ...

joint products of persons interacting with each other in their ongoing interchange with their total environment. No one link in ...

self, is perfect in purpose and accomplishment?” The re- sponse of the theist depends to some extent upon what he claims to be t ...

médiévale, 2 vols., 2d ed. (Paris, 1944), translated by A. H. C. Downes as The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy (New York, 1936), e ...

glican bishop William Warburton, in his Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated (1737–1741), engaged in a long discus- sion of Isr ...

monarchy and Israelite kingship, but such inferences should be drawn with caution, especially since Israel’s monarchy had been e ...

It is also in this general sense of theocracy that Islam ought to be considered theocratic. Islam grew up as a reli- gious commu ...

for the faiths to which these victims belonged. Traditionally, Jews and Christians have affirmed God’s goodness and his absolute ...

and perfect whole. Some Hindu thinkers have also denied the reality of suffering by advocating adoption of the divine point of v ...

A more traditional and long-standing objection to the free-will theodicy is that it does not apparently handle the problem of na ...

of theodicy by placing God beyond moral accountability, whereas the view discussed here insists that God’s justice will ultimate ...

The repeated assertions of God’s control of the wicked sup- port this interpretation. In any case, the more radical stance, amou ...

overturned: “Many that are first will be last and the last will be first” (Mk. 10:31; Mt. 5:19). Also running through many texts ...

preference, it is reasonable to say that there exists among con- temporary Christian theologians a predilection to stress God’s ...