The Continuing Implications of Christian Doctrinal Traditions for Contemporary Cultural Life
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 261
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Interests: reformed theology; nineteenth century Protestant theology; Søren Kierkegaard; theology and aesthetics; philosophical theology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The collection of essays will identify the most deeply rooted leitmotifs of a variety of Christian doctrinal traditions, with an eye to exploring the continuing relevance of these respective themes for engagement with contemporary cultural and social phenomena. It will be assumed that the doctrinal teachings of an ecclesial community are ways of articulating the depth dynamics of a religious way of life that interacts in complex ways with that tradition’s environing culture.
The purpose of the essays is to show how historic doctrinal motifs continue implicitly to inform the ethos and practices of their respective ecclesial families, in spite of declining popular attention to explicit doctrinal teachings. Lived religion is saturated with and shaped by the often unspoken doctrinal concepts rooted in a specific tradition’s history.
The volume’s scope will include the Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, and Wesleyan heritages. The Reformed tradition will be subdivided into its English/Scottish variants and its Continental types.
The focus will be upon these traditions because they have been the most intent upon formulating doctrines in creeds, confessions, catechisms, liturgies, and statements of faith.
One major strand of literature in religious studies explores the evolution of various doctrinal traditions, including their contemporary theological articulations, while another major strand investigates the religious dimensions of contemporary cultural phenomena. However, very little has been written to illumine the intersection of the two, i.e., the ways in which doctrinal trajectories have lived cultural consequences and implications.
Prof. Dr. Lee C. Barrett
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Christian doctrine
- religion and culture
- the reformed tradition
- Wesleyanism
- Lutheranism
- eastern Orthodoxy
- roman Catholicism
