What's your jam?

[bootstrapbill2]

Long-time lurker, just curious what everybody on here is interested in. I'm super interested in the Greco-Roman cultic background to the New Testament, incorporating things like divinatory practice, the cultic roles and experiences of women, and all that jazz. What lights your Religious Studies/Theology/Divinity fire?

[pwe5000]

For me it's the Hebrew Bible, specifically intertextuality, reading the HB as an ANE document, ancient Israelite history, and early apocalyptic.

[Isaac32]

Patristic interpretations of justification and righteousness, the use of philosophy in Eastern Orthodoxy.

[LauraR]

Impact of eschatological and apocalyptic thinking on early Christian ethics and practical theology.

[tdwightdavis]

Theology and race, specifically the work of the Duke School (J. Kameron Carter, Willie James Jennings, and Brian Bantum). Hoping to do something that combines race, liturgy, sacraments, christology, and theological anthropology.

[Body Politics]

The interface of orality and writing in early Christian media culture.

[marXian]

German theology and social theory at the turn of the 20th century (Weber, Troeltsch, Holl), critical theory, political theology, Neo-Kantian philosophy of history and religion, theory and method in religious studies.

[Tez92]

I'm curious about the religious experience among gay, black men. I am curious as to how their lived experiences problematize christian theology and other religious ideologies. Also, I'm curious as to how the church as a social institution can facilitate positive and negative effects on black, gay men.

My current undergraduate research in studying how gay, young black men interprete scripture and how that interpretation influences their sexual orientation.

[Isaac32]

[-vive2ladifference]

Islamic studies, anyone? My main interests are in the Indo-Persian tradition, Shi'ism, mysticism and the intersections between the three in history.

[Marcion]

Christian origins and the New Testament. Heading more towards the early second century with the legacy of Paul and the rise of Marcionism.

[Jonjae]

Patristic interpretations of justification and righteousness, the use of philosophy in Eastern Orthodoxy.

 

I'm also interested in patristic adaptations of Greek philosophy and how those affect Eastern Orthodoxy. I'm hoping to specifically focus on the Cappadocians (specifically, Gregory of Nyssa) and maybe even Denys, Maximus, and John of Damascus. 

Edited April 8, 2015 by Jonjae

[Barth-or-Bust]

A lot of things but primarily the exegetical work being done on Paul by the New Perspective people.

[Thorongil]

Mysticism, asceticism, pessimism, and the philosophy of Schopenhauer.