Theology

Karl Barth and the Making of Evangelical Theology: A Fifty-Year Perspective

Karl Barth traveled to the United States only once during his long career. In 1962, newly retired, he came to visit family and to deliver a series of lectures subsequently …

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On Teaching XQuery to Digital Humanists

XQuery provides an excellent means for teaching programming to digital humanists because it works seamlessly with their existing XML data, has an elegant and simple core with a …

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Liberalism versus Democracy? Abraham Kuyper and Carl Schmitt as Critics of Liberalism

This chapter compares Abraham Kuyper and Carl Schmitt as critics of liberalism. Both thinkers rejected the liberal ambition to neutralize religious and ideological conflict in …

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Neo-Calvinism and Pan-Islamism: Kindred Movements Against Liberal Imperialism?

This article brings Abraham Kuyper's neo-Calvinism into comparison with the pan-Islamic movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Kuyper devoted sustained …

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The Vampire Squid: Abraham Kuyper on Public Entertainment

This chapter examines Abraham Kuyper's attitude toward public entertainment. Though remembered for proclaiming Christ's lordship over every square inch of human culture, Kuyper was …

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Meeting Together for the Good of the World

This article traces the rise of ecumenical cooperation from the founding of the Evangelical Alliance in 1846 through the Federal Council of Churches to the founding of the World …

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Karl Barth and American Evangelicalism

A collection of essays arising from the 2007 Karl Barth Conference at Princeton Theological Seminary that seeks to build bridges between the theology of Karl Barth and contemporary …

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The Unexceptional Church: An Exploration of Carl Schmitt, Giorgio Agamben and Karl Barth

This essay brings Karl Barth's ecclesiology into conversation with Carl Schmitt's political theology of the sovereign exception and Giorgio Agamben's genealogy of the state of …

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The Purpose of a (Barthian) Theology of Religions: A Response to Wolf Krötke

A response to the German theologian Wolf Krötke on the prospects for a Barthian theology of religions, asking what purpose such a theology should serve and how Karl Barth's account …

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Kuyper in the Civil Sphere

A response essay in an intercontinental dialogue on Abraham Kuyper's legacy for contemporary ecotheology. The essay considers Kuyper's place in the civil sphere—how his account of …

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