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Clergy Becoming Spiritual but not Religious 神职人员变得灵性而非宗教性

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2024-06-20 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2024-0007

Linda Mercadante

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Framing the Reading Experience of an Apocryphal Text: The Case of the 1 Apocryphal Apocalypse of John’s Titles 构建启示录文本的阅读体验：约翰启示录》1 的标题案例

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2024-05-31 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2024-0005

Cristian Daniel Cardozo Mindiola

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From Below, to Inclusion, Through Transformation: Urban Theology in the Twenty-First Century 从 "下层 "到 "包容"，再到 "变革"：二十一世纪的城市神学

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2024-04-20 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2024-0002

Rosa Huotari, Henrietta Grönlund

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Worry and Analytic Theology 忧虑与分析神学

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2024-04-17 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2024-0004

S. Mark Hamilton

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Candomblé in Public: How Religious Rites Become Civil Technologies in Salvador, Brazil 公共场合的坎东布雷：宗教仪式如何成为巴西萨尔瓦多的民间技术

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-25 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2024-0001

Leandro de Paula

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Forward and Reverse Gematria are Very Different Beasts 正向和反向占星术是截然不同的两种东西

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-15 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2022-0245

Zachary Harris

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Daniel and Revelation: Blasphemy in the Cosmic Conflict 但以理书与启示录宇宙冲突中的渎神行为

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2024-03-14 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2022-0242

Bohdan Kuryliak, Ihor Kuryliak

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“… God Said”: Toward a Quantum Theology of Creation "......上帝说"：迈向量子创世神学

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2024-01-29 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2022-0244

Ryder Dale Walton

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Becoming Child of the Moment through Deleuzian Philosophy and Sufism 通过德勒兹哲学和苏菲主义成为当下之子

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2024-01-23 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2022-0241

Murat Sariyar

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Interdisciplinary Approach to Overcoming the Persistence of Patriarchal Islamic Interpretations: Gender Equality, the Development of Empathy and Children’s Rights, and Insights from the Reformist Eurasian Scholars of Early Twentieth Century 以跨学科方法克服伊斯兰教宗法解释的顽固性：性别平等、移情和儿童权利的发展以及二十世纪初欧亚改革派学者的见解

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2024-01-22 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2022-0243

Galym Zhussipbek, Assyltay Tasbolat, Zhanar Nagayeva

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