Why was Jesus Crucified? Theology, History and the Story of Redemption

Brondos, David A.

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“…Only Jesus was exempt. His death salvifically allowed for redemption for all Christian believers (Brondos 2001). For Christians, the figure of the Grim Reaper was a way to represent death.…”

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Syncretic Santa Muerte: Holy Death and Religious Bricolage

Kingsbury¹,

Chesnut²

2021

Religions

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In this article, we trace the syncretic origins and development of the new religious movement centered on the Mexican folk saint of death, Santa Muerte. We explore how she was born of the syncretic association of the Spanish Catholic Grim Reapress and Pre-Columbian Indigenous thanatologies in the colonial era. Through further religious bricolage in the post-colony, we describe how as the new religious movement rapidly expanded it integrated elements of other religious traditions, namely Afro-Cuban Santeria and Palo Mayombe, New Age beliefs and practices, and even Wicca. In contrast to much of the Eurocentric scholarship on Santa Muerte, we posit that both the Skeleton Saint’s origins and contemporary devotional framework cannot be comprehended without considering the significant influence of Indigenous death deities who formed part of holistic ontologies that starkly contrasted with the dualistic absolutism of European Catholicism in which life and death were viewed as stark polarities. We also demonstrate how across time the liminal power of death as a supernatural female figure has proved especially appealing to marginalized socioeconomic groups.

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Syncretic Santa Muerte: Holy Death and Religious Bricolage

Kingsbury¹,

Chesnut²

2021

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“…In Christian eschatology, the understanding of death was dissimilar. For the Spanish and European Catholics in general, death equated to finality for all except Jesus who triumphed over death salvifically ensuring the possibility of redemption for all believers (Brondos 2001 ). In the New World, la Parca was conceived by some Indigenous people through the lens of their own thanatological traditions who rather than seeing Jesus as victorious over death, viewed death as prepotent or even fused the two together seeing both as mystical personages.…”

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Holy Death in the Time of Coronavirus: Santa Muerte, the Salubrious Saint

Kingsbury

Chesnut

2020

Int J Lat Am Relig

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As Santa Muerte prayer cards and candles circulate in Mexico with petitions of protection against COVID-19, we consider death as doctor in these tumultuous times proving that the folk saint of death is not solely a narco-saint, as the press depicts, but is supplicated for miracles of COVID healing and protection from the virus. We not only reveal the importance of religion for coping with pandemics but also focus on the notion of death as healing and as a giver of life. We decolonize knowledge of Santa Muerte and explore the saint’s syncretic origins, hailing not only from the European Grim Reaper during times of plague but also from Indigenous thanatological epistemologies that account for her dual powers of gifting life and also doling out death.

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“…The crucifixion as such did not bring salvation but the faithfulness of Jesus unto death in carrying out his ministry for others. The fact that the crucifixion thought experiment can be used in the context of history, as in Eire (2006), and in theology as in Brondos (2001) affirms the interdisciplinary significance of thought experimentation that comes into focus with Polkinghorne's observation about the importance and cognitive efficacy of this practice in quantum physics and Christian theology. We will turn now to the question as to how to explain the evidential significance that some thought experiments in science and theology obviously have.…”

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“…The crucifixion thought experiment probably explains the wide variety of theological views of the crucifixion that have been proposed in the course of the history of Christian thought (Brondos 2001), although in many of them historical considerations often come short and soteriological reflections dominate. Many of the church fathers argued that the cross was necessary to overcome the power of evil.…”

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“…Again others proposed a third view—namely, that the crucifixion provided an example as to how to have full community with God, despite a fallen human nature (Abelard, Barth, Bultmann, Peter Knauer). Brondos (2001) argues that in all these views theology and history have not been properly related. He proposes therefore that in the light of historical data and theological reasons the cross does not stand for a violent death which must be deemed necessary from a theological point of view to bring about salvation.…”

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Quantum Physics and Theology: John Polkinghorne on Thought Experiments

Fehige

2012

Zygon

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Thought experimentation is part of accepted scientific practice, and this makes it surprising that philosophers of science did not seriously engage with it for a very long time. The situation changed in the 1990s, resulting in a highly intriguing debate over thought experiments. Initially, the discussion focused mostly on thought experiments in physics, philosophy, and mathematics. Other disciplines have since become the subject of interest. Yet, nothing substantial has been said about the role of thought experiments in nonphilosophical theology. This paper discusses the role of thought experiments in Christian theology in comparison to their role in quantum physics, as mentioned by John Polkinghorne in Quantum Physics and Theology. We first look briefly at the history of the inquiry into thought experiments and then at Polkinghorne's remarks about the role of thought experimentation in quantum physics and Christian eschatology. To determine the actual importance of thought experiments in Christian theology a number of new examples are introduced in a third step. In the light of these examples, in a fourth step, we address the question of what it is that explains the cognitive efficacy of thought experiments in quantum physics and Christian theology.

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Why was Jesus Crucified? Theology, History and the Story of Redemption

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Syncretic Santa Muerte: Holy Death and Religious Bricolage

Syncretic Santa Muerte: Holy Death and Religious Bricolage

Holy Death in the Time of Coronavirus: Santa Muerte, the Salubrious Saint

Quantum Physics and Theology: John Polkinghorne on Thought Experiments

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