The specific question faced in this essay is whether special divine revelation has received embodiment in Holy Scripture. Are the Old and New Testaments to be acknowledged, not only as containing a record of the history of such revelation, but also as being themselves the very Word of God? Do they constitute divine revelation because of their intrinsic character, altogether apart from the respo...

The brief I have been given for this paper is to set homosexuality in the context of God's purposes for us as men and women. The source material I am to draw on is Scripture (the Old and New Testaments, and the approach is to be that of Biblical Theology. This may seem straightforward enough, but there are a number of things that need clarification at the outset if we are not to end in frustrat...

This article examines the different gender performances that are demonstrated by three versions of character Aunt Lydia: first, Lydia novel version The Handmaid’s Tale (Atwood, 2010); second, television same for Hulu series, Tale; and third, Margaret Atwood focuses on in her latest novel, Testaments (2019). research is primarily informed Judith Butler various works subject performativity. novel...

This article adds to existing discussions on slave religions by offering the analysis of four post-mortem testaments left behind formerly enslaved African women in nineteenth-century Salvador da Bahia elucidate different roles that faith and religiosity played within their lives, communities, understandings self. After contextualizing these primary sources relevant historiography descendant Atl...