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The Church of the Nazarene is a Christian denomination that emerged in North America from the 19th-century Wesleyan-Holiness movement within Methodism. It is headquartered in Lenexa,Kansas. With its members commonly referred to as Nazarenes,it is the largest denomination in the world aligned with the Wesleyan-Holiness movement and is a member of the World Methodist Council.
The Holiness movement is a Christian movement that emerged chiefly within 19th-century Methodism,and to a lesser extent influenced other traditions such as Quakerism,Anabaptism,and Restorationism. Churches aligned with the holiness movement teach that the life of a born again Christian should be free of sin. The movement is historically distinguished by its emphasis on the doctrine of a second work of grace,which is called entire sanctification or Christian perfection. The word Holiness refers specifically to this belief in entire sanctification as an instantaneous,definite second work of grace,in which original sin is cleansed,the heart is made perfect in love,and the believer is empowered to serve God. For the Holiness movement,"the term 'perfection' signifies completeness of Christian character;its freedom from all sin,and possession of all the graces of the Spirit,complete in kind." A number of Christian denominations,parachurch organizations,and movements emphasize those Holiness beliefs as central doctrine.
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Andrew Linzey is an English Anglican priest,theologian,and prominent figure in Christian vegetarianism. He is a member of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oxford,and held the world's first academic post in Ethics,Theology and Animal Welfare,the Bede Jarret Senior Research Fellowship at Blackfriars Hall.
Thomas Jay Oord is a theologian,philosopher,and multidisciplinary scholar who directs a doctoral program at Northwind Theological Seminary and the Center for Open and Relational Theology. He formerly taught for sixteen years as a tenured professor at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa,Idaho and before that a philosophy professor at Eastern Nazarene College. Oord is the author or editor of more than thirty books and hundreds of articles. He is known for his contributions to research on love,open theism,process theism,open and relational theology,postmodernism,the relationship between religion and science,Wesleyan,holiness,Nazarene theology.
Gavin D'Costa is the Emeritus Professor of Catholic Theology at the University of Bristol. His academic career at Bristol began in 1993. D'Costa was appointed a visiting professor of Inter-religious Dialogue at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas,Rome.
Elaine L. Graham is the Grosvenor Research Professor at the University of Chester. She was until October 2009 the Samuel Ferguson Professor of Social and Pastoral Theology at the University of Manchester. In March 2014,she was installed as Canon Theologian of Chester Cathedral.
Theological aesthetics is the interdisciplinary study of theology and aesthetics,and has been defined as being "concerned with questions about God and issues in theology in the light of and perceived through sense knowledge,through beauty,and the arts". This field of study is broad and includes not only a theology of beauty,but also the dialogue between theology and the arts,such as dance,drama,film,literature,music,poetry,and the visual arts.
Jeremy Sutherland Begbie,DD,BA,BD,PhD,LRAM,ARCM,FRSCM,is Thomas A. Langford Distinguished Research Professor of Theology at Duke Divinity School,Duke University,where he is the McDonald Agape Director of Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts. He is a systematic theologian whose primary research interest is the correlation between theology and the arts,in particular the interplay between music and theology. He is also an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge.
Dion Angus Forster is an academic and clergyman. He serves as a professor of Public Theology in the Faculty of Religion and Theology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Paul Francis Knitter is an American theologian. He is currently an emeritus professor at Union Theological Seminary,where he has served as the Paul Tillich Professor of Theology,World Religions and Culture since 2007. He is also Emeritus Professor of Theology at Xavier University in Cincinnati,where he taught for 28 years before moving to Union. Knitter is known for his work on religious pluralism and multiple religious belonging,particularly regarding Buddhism and Christianity.
The Wesleyan Philosophical Society (WPS) is an academic society largely represented by academic institutions affiliated with Christian denominations in the Wesleyan tradition. Despite its primarily Wesleyan orientation,there has been increasing participation from scholars in Catholic,Orthodox,and other Protestant traditions. Likewise,there are no formal doctrinal or affiliational requirements for membership in the society or participation at its conferences. Anyone with an interest in philosophical subjects pertaining to conference themes is welcome to attend,regardless of his or her personal theological orientation or affiliation.
William James Abraham was a Northern Irish theologian,analytic philosopher,and Methodist pastor known for his contributions to the philosophy of religion,religious epistemology,evangelism,and church renewal. Abraham spent most of his career in the United States and was the Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. He previously taught at Seattle Pacific University and was a visiting professor at Harvard Divinity School. Abraham was associated with the Confessing Movement in the United Methodist Church and was a proponent of canonical theism,a church renewal movement that looks to the canons of the ancient ecumenical church as a source for renewing mainline Protestant churches.
Paul David Loup Avis is an English Anglican priest,theologian,and ecumenist. He was General Secretary of the Church of England's Council for Christian Unity from 1998 to 2011,theological consultant to the Anglican Communion Office,London,from 2011 to 2012,and Canon Theologian of Exeter Cathedral from 2008 to 2013. He was honorary professor in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University 2017–2021 and is currently Honorary Professor in the School of Divinity,University of Edinburgh (2022-). At the University of Exeter he was visiting professor of theology from 2009 to 2017 and subsequently honorary research fellow until 2021. He is the editor of the series Anglican-Episcopal Theology and History,also published by Brill. Avis was also a chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II,2008–2017.
Father Michael Himes was a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn,New York. Himes was a theologian at Boston College in Chestnut Hill,Massachusetts. He served as professor and academic dean of the Seminary of Immaculate Conception on Long Island,New York,and as associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame.
Practical theology is an academic discipline that examines and reflects on religious practices in order to understand the theology enacted in those practices and in order to consider how theological theory and theological practices can be more fully aligned,changed,or improved. Practical theology has often sought to address a perceived disconnection between dogmatics or theology as an academic discipline on the one hand,and the life and practice of the church on the other.
Mary Ann Beavis is a professor emerita,St. Thomas More College,the University of Saskatchewan. She co-founded the peer-reviewed academic journal,S/HE:An International Journal of Goddess Studies,together with Helen Hye-Sook Hwang in 2021.
Digital theology or cybertheology is the study of the relationship between theology and the digital technology.
Anthony G. Reddie is a British theologian and academic,who specialises in black theology. He is a professor of Black Theology at Regent’s Park College,University of Oxford. He is an Extraordinary Professor and Research Fellow of Theological Ethics at the University of South Africa.
Anita Monro is an Australian academic,theologian,and Uniting Church in Australia minister. She is a former principal of Grace College,located on the St Lucia campus. She is also an Honorary Senior Fellow,in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry,Faculty of Humanities,Arts and Social Sciences,at the University of Queensland.
