Category: Theology

This article highlights the key issues in the ongoing debate about the meaning of the cross of Jesus Christ within feminist theological literature in the United States. MA: Peeters – Leuven – Dudley

Bess in Breaking the Waves (1996) and Sister Helen in Dead Man Walking (1995) have often been interpreted as Christ-figures. By taking a closer look at these two women‘s stories I question on both feminist and theological grounds what constitutes a true female Christ-figure in films.

An exploration of the rich New Testament basis for the doctrine of the Trinity, against philosophical or even mathematical treatments of the doctrine in typical Trinity Sunday sermons.

A proposal for a Lutheran understanding and practice of hagiography.

A multi-level essay exploring the theological meaning and spiritual impact of various racial depictions of Jesus.

An exploration of the life of and traditions about Mary, mother of God, from the dedication of Jesus in the temple through her many ―sorrows.‖

A response to a Catholic perspective opposed to the ordination of women, underscoring the trinitarian, christological, and anthropological reasons for ordaining women.

A personal testimony combined with doctrinal argument about the importance and relevance of the doctrine of predestination for Christian faith today.

An exploration of how the birth of the baby boy Jesus to the woman Mary can offer insights toward the end of the ―war between the sexes.‖

Augustine‘s understandings of order and sex are interwoven themes throughout his theological work. While Augustine moved beyond a strict body-soul dualism to retain sex as a part of God‘s created order, sex after the Fall became for Augustine a theological concept as a symbol, evidence, and paradigm of disordered sinfulness. This move has left a historical legacy that has caused much suffering to those who seem to fall outside Augustine‘s order.