Call for Papers for the next issue of JOGTS (Theme: Faith and Fighting - Warfare and Its Theological and Religious Contours). 16 June 2023 deadline.
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The Journal of the Oxford Graduate Theological Society (JOGTS) is a peer-reviewed journal which publishes scholarly articles in the field of theology and religion.
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FAITH AND FIGHTING: WARFARE AND ITS THEOLOGICAL AND RELIGIOUS CONTOURS
Whether one considers the war-torn ancient Near East, the military conquests waged by Alexander the Great, the two World Wars, or the contemporary conflicts in Europe and other regions around the world, warfare seems an enduring element in human relations, governance, and culture. If often ignored or otherwise treated as ancillary to political and economic analyses, the theological and religious factors influencing, underlying, or resulting from warfare are nevertheless immeasurably important areas of inquiry. For example, studying church doctrine, religious movements, and specific beliefs about doctrinal topics such as immanence, transcendence, eternity, reincarnation, the afterlife, and immortality can shed valuable light upon the complex sociocultural and ideological reasons and dynamics giving rise to and shaping warfare. So, too, carefully studying theologians and religious scholars who have lived through war may disclose the ways in which thinkers past and present have used theological, philosophical, and religious resources to address the hellish realities in which they find themselves. In various ways, the contents comprising the fourth volume of JOGTS unearth and examine these types of questions and topics to thus explore the broad theme of "Faith and Fighting."
Published: 2023-10-23
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Table of Contents
Abstract 13 | PDF Downloads 11Editorial Introduction
Abstract 13 | PDF Downloads 15“Not by force of Armes”: Mysticism and Confessional Conflict in the English Counter- Reformation
Abstract 21 | PDF Downloads 18Faith and Fighting: An Interview with Canon Professor Michael Snape
Abstract 16 | PDF Downloads 22A Child of the Father of Lies: A Sermon Given by Professor Cyril Hovorun
Abstract 25 | PDF Downloads 15Religion as a Weapon: United States Radio and the Cold War: An Interview with Mark G. Pomar
Abstract 17 | PDF Downloads 14Reviews
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Hope and Time in Theology and Religion
In wake of the theme “Theology, Religion and Crisis” of the previous edition of The Journal of the Oxford Graduate Theological Society, the matter of hope arises as a complex consideration entailing that, at some point, that which is hoped for, desired, trusted, believed, or relied upon will come to be. Not hope alone, however, but the matter of hope in and of time and the time for or of hope is also deceptively confounding and there is great potential in contemplating the inextricable link between hope and time.
Whilst there is a tendency in life and in scholarship to descend abjectly into the timeless and hopeless conceptual abyss, hope and time offer plentiful resources to avoid this. The world over—across philosophical, religious, theological, scientific and cultural traditions and epochs—thinkers have wrestled and struggled, contemplating and presenting their own thoughts on these two foundational human constructs. Along the way, whether ancient, modern, postmodern, or other, some of the most creative, penetrating, stimulating, and beautiful—but also ambivalent and difficult—cogitations and works of argumentation, prose, poetry, myth, literature, and art have and continue to emerge and populate the diverse and ever-evolving theological and religious landscapes we occupy (and have occupied).
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