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Explore the stranger parts of the Bible with Blurry Creatures and Dr. Joel Muddamalle Season 1: The Cosmic Mountain | Theology Essays/Articles
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Study Guide Week Four: One God, Four Answers (opens the original)
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Sooner or later, someone will tell you Christians worship three gods.Maybe a Muslim coworker. Maybe a Jehovah’s Witness on your porch. Or a Latter-day Saint who says, kindly, that they are Christians too.In Week Four, Jeremy Jenkins argued that the label monotheist settles almost nothing. Christians, Muslims, Witnesses, and Latter-day Saints all confess one God. They mean very different things by God, and most of them mean something different by one.This guide walks you through all four:The Trin
Week 4: What Do You Mean by God? (opens the original)
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Muslims, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Latter-day Saints, and Christians will all tell you they believe in one God. Each of them means something different by God. Most of them mean something different by one.In Week Four, Jeremy Jenkins works through Christian Trinitarianism, Islamic tawhid, and two non-Nicene movements born in the nineteenth-century American No… Read more
A Voice in the Garden (opens the original)
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This free article is part of the Stranger Theology: The Bible In A Year journey. If you are reading along using the Stranger Theology Journal, you can follow the daily structure and reflection prompts there as we move through Scripture together.Today’s post is from one of our Resident Theologians, Leslie Garcia. Leslie is a researcher of early Christianity whose work centers on the preservation of female authority and agency in late-antique writings. She holds an undergraduate degree in Biblical
Study Guide Week Three: How Many Gods Do You Believe In? (opens the original)
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Jeremy Jenkins opened Week Three with one question for the chat, and he asked everyone to hold onto it until the end of the night. How many gods do you believe in?Most of you typed one. Some typed one God in three persons. A few of you, being Stranger Theology readers, started typing about the Divine Council. That instinct was the right one. The question is harder than it looks, and your Hindu neighbor already has an answer.The Week Three study guide is here.<a class="button primary" href="https
Week 3: One God Among Many (opens the original)
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Week Three is live.Jeremy opened with one question for the chat: how many gods do you believe in? Then he spent the hour on Hinduism as the case study for polytheism and henotheism. Atman, karma, dharma, samsara, and moksha. Ganesh, the remover of obstacles, who gets the first offering no matter which god you came to worship. The burning ghats of Varana… Read more
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