Vítor Westhelle
Biographic Data
| ID | 178951 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vítor Westhelle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vítor |
| FAMILY NAME | Westhelle |
| SIGNATURE | WESTHELLE V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Luther’s Theologia Crucis
Space, History, and the Kingdom
Gerhard von Rad, arguably the most influential Old Testament scholar of the last century, set the tone and gave the key for the reading of the Hebrew scriptures.2 In his authoritative Old Testament Theology, he sets in stark contrast to the Jahwist faith, as a strict historical faith, the religious faiths grounded in the sacred experience of gods connected to the land and "saturated with creation myths."3 The Old Testament "story is much more int…
Eschatology and Space: The Lost Dimension in Theology Past and Present
Liberation Theology: A Latitudinal Perspective
Idols and Demons: On Discerning the Spirits
This article elaborates on the distinction between two spiritual ailments, which can be properly identified as idolatry and demonry. They represent opposite but complementary age–long phenomena still relevant to the analysis of the contemporary spiritual situation in explaining disorders of the soul as well as cultural derangement. The text suggests that the church as the spiritual community is the locus for the discernment of the spirit and that…
Theological Shamelessness? A Response to Arthur Peacocke and David A. Pailin
This is a theological response to two programmatic essays, “Science and the Future of Theology: Critical Issues,” by Arthur Peacocke and “What Game is Being Played? The Need for Clarity about theRelationship between Scientific and Theological Understanding,” by David A. Pailin. It argues that the two authors, well informed by the recent developments in science, are reduplicating some methodological and epistemological trends common to nineteenth‐…
Scientific Sight and Embodied Knowledges: Social Circumstances in Science and Theology
Scientific Sight and Embodied Knowledges: Social Circumstances in Science and Theology
Theological Shamelessness? A Response to Arthur Peacocke and David A. Pailin
This is a theological response to two programmatic essays, “Science and the Future of Theology: Critical Issues,” by Arthur Peacocke and “What Game is Being Played? The Need for Clarity about theRelationship between Scientific and Theological Understanding,” by David A. Pailin. It argues that the two authors, well informed by the recent developments in science, are reduplicating some methodological and epistemological trends common to nineteenth‐…
Idols and Demons: On Discerning the Spirits
This article elaborates on the distinction between two spiritual ailments, which can be properly identified as idolatry and demonry. They represent opposite but complementary age–long phenomena still relevant to the analysis of the contemporary spiritual situation in explaining disorders of the soul as well as cultural derangement. The text suggests that the church as the spiritual community is the locus for the discernment of the spirit and that…
Liberation Theology: A Latitudinal Perspective
Space, History, and the Kingdom
Gerhard von Rad, arguably the most influential Old Testament scholar of the last century, set the tone and gave the key for the reading of the Hebrew scriptures.2 In his authoritative Old Testament Theology, he sets in stark contrast to the Jahwist faith, as a strict historical faith, the religious faiths grounded in the sacred experience of gods connected to the land and "saturated with creation myths."3 The Old Testament "story is much more int…
Eschatology and Space: The Lost Dimension in Theology Past and Present
Luther’s Theologia Crucis
Philosophy (5 works) · Theology (4 works) · Art (2 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (2 works) · Historical and Architectural Studies (2 works) · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Biblical theology (1 works) · Chemistry (1 works)