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Is Finitude Original? A Rereading of “Violence and Metaphysics” Finitude是原创的吗？重读《暴力与形而上学》

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2022-0200

Theodor Sandal Rolfsen

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Rethinking Death’s Sacredness: From Heraclitus’s frag. DK B62 to Robert Gardner’s Dead Birds 重新思考死亡的神圣性:从赫拉克利特的碎片。罗伯特·加德纳的《死鸟》中的DK B62

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2022-0194

C. Segovia

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After the Theological Turn: Towards a Credible Theological Grammar 神学转向后：走向可信的神学语法

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2022-0198

M. Kočí

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Death from the Perspective of Luhmann’s System Theory 卢曼系统理论视角下的死亡

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2022-0196

Murat Sariyar

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Process-Panentheism and the “Only Way” Argument 过程-泛神论和“唯一的方法”论证

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2022-0203

Lina Langby

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Contesting Deaths’ Despair: Local Public Religion, Radical Welcome and Community Health in the Overdose Crisis, Massachusetts, USA 挑战死亡的绝望:过量危机中的当地公共宗教，激进的欢迎和社区健康，马萨诸塞州，美国

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2022-0206

Emily B. Campbell

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Trauma in the Apocryphon of Jeremiah C: Cultural Trauma as Forgetful Remembrance of Divine-Human Relations in Qumran Jeremianic Traditions 耶利米伪经中的创伤C：文化创伤是对库姆兰犹太传统中神圣人际关系的遗忘纪念

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2022-0220

A. Hogeterp

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God and the Goodness of Death: A Theological Minority Report 上帝与死亡之善:神学少数派报告

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2022-0209

C. Hartin

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The Christological Perichōrēsis and Dance 基督的Perichōrısis与舞蹈

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2022-0202

R. Hikota

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Confessional Discourses, Radicalizing Traditions: On John Caputo and the Theological Turn 忏悔话语，激进传统——论约翰·卡普托与神学转向

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/opth-2022-0193

Justin Sands

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