Encyclopedia of Religion

for Islamic orthodoxy at least, theodicy remains an undevel- oped dimension of the religious life. Its place is taken by the sen ...

We need not review in detail here the various Hindu and Buddhist answers to the question of how one may escape sam:sa ̄ra. These ...

The problem of evil and the issue of theodicy has also had an im- portant place in fictional writing during the modern period. P ...

As an Antiochene, Theodore stressed the great impor- tance of the human contribution to salvation, which he de- veloped beyond t ...

part 1, pages 1–244; in volume 9, see especially part 1, pages 1–318, and part 2, pages 1–27. Garzya, A. “Epigrammata.” Epeteris ...

Spanish homeland a certain Theodosius who was elevated as emperor in January 379 at the age of 33. His first task was to come to ...

to heaven by barring the pagan cults. Until now, legislation had not worsened the pagan position, and the commando raids by Chri ...

PROBLEMS AND POSSIBILITIES. On the whole, contemporary scholars in history of religions or religious studies do not use the term ...

Such comparative theological questions may be consid- ered intrinsic to the intellectual self-understanding of any re- ligious t ...

Christian, and Islamic theological self-understanding gener- ated some comparativist interests in all these monotheistic theolog ...

The rise of interest in Indian religions, moreover, paral- leled both Western colonial expansion and the scholarly de- velopment ...

tural and religious values. Similar comparative theological enterprises (generally without Troeltsch’s methodological so- phisti ...

Hocking and F. S. C. Northrup, the historian Arnold Toyn- bee and the psychologist C. G. Jung. Each of these thinkers, although ...

development of the great liberation movements and their at- tendant hermeneutics of suspicion (with respect to sexism, racism, c ...

ally critical correlations between the claims to religious meaning and truth in the same two sets of interpretations. What rende ...

ther detail. Among earlier works, see also Morris Jastrow’s The Study of Religion (London, 1901) and Joachim Wach’s The Comparat ...

ture, it did gather into the Talmud the discussions and inter- pretations of the rabbis; it developed an apologetic for deal- in ...

be those who devote themselves in depth to the sciences of the Hellenes and do not use these simply to exercise the mind but ins ...

The Protestant Reformation led, in Catholic theology, to the development of a scholarly apologetics (e.g., the Con- troversiae o ...

tant theologians, on the other hand, are bound solely by the word of God and think under their own responsibility. They do, howe ...