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The etheric place: Notes on finding the supernatural at the boundaries of sleep (2021)
Journal Article
Powell, A., & Cook, C. C. (2021). The etheric place: Notes on finding the supernatural at the boundaries of sleep. Journal for the study of religious experience, 6(1), 45-51

Whilst conducting qualitative studies with both Christians who report hearing supernatural voices and Spiritualists who report ‘clairaudience’, we have encountered numerous instances of what appeared to be hypnagogic and hypnopompic experiences being... Read More about The etheric place: Notes on finding the supernatural at the boundaries of sleep.

The Contribution of Francis A. Sullivan, SJ to a Deeper Understanding of Charisms in the Church (2020)
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Stayne, J. (2020). The Contribution of Francis A. Sullivan, SJ to a Deeper Understanding of Charisms in the Church. Theological Studies, 81(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/0040563920985248

Francis A. Sullivan, SJ made a number of significant contributions to the Catholic theology of charism. Through an accepted emendation, he helped write Lumen Gentium 12; he investigated the new movement of “Catholic Pentecostals” for the Congregation... Read More about The Contribution of Francis A. Sullivan, SJ to a Deeper Understanding of Charisms in the Church.

A Test Case in Ascriptive Realism: The Quest of the Historical Daniel and Its Complex Relationship to the Practices of Scriptural Interpretation (2020)
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Briggs, R. (2020). A Test Case in Ascriptive Realism: The Quest of the Historical Daniel and Its Complex Relationship to the Practices of Scriptural Interpretation. Journal of Theological Interpretation, 14(1), 41-59. https://doi.org/10.5325/jtheointe.14.1.0041

One productive avenue for locating the best practices for integrating historical and theological exegesis lies along the path of “ascriptive realism,” a shorthand label for a mode of reading informed above all by Hans Frei’s work on Scripture as real... Read More about A Test Case in Ascriptive Realism: The Quest of the Historical Daniel and Its Complex Relationship to the Practices of Scriptural Interpretation.

Justice and the Recognition of the True God: A Reading of Psalm 82 (2020)
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Moberly, R. (2020). Justice and the Recognition of the True God: A Reading of Psalm 82. Revue biblique (1946), 127(2), 215-236. https://doi.org/10.2143/rbi.127.2.3287570

This essay attempts a fresh reading of Psalm 82 as a resource for Christian thought and practice. Characteristic premodern and modern readings – that the psalm is an admonition to human judges, and that the psalm depicts a move from polytheism to hen... Read More about Justice and the Recognition of the True God: A Reading of Psalm 82.

Method and Truth (2020)
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Moberly, R. (2020). Method and Truth. Harvard Theological Review, 113(4), 528-542

Hearing spiritually significant voices: A phenomenological survey and taxonomy (2020)
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Cook, C. C., Powell, A., Alderson-Day, B., & Woods, A. (2022). Hearing spiritually significant voices: A phenomenological survey and taxonomy. Medical Humanities, 48(3), 273-284. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2020-012021

Whereas previous research in the medical humanities has tended to neglect theology and religious studies, these disciplines sometimes have a very important contribution to make. The hearing of spiritually significant voices provides a case in point.... Read More about Hearing spiritually significant voices: A phenomenological survey and taxonomy.

England and the Catholic Reformation: The Peripheries Strike Back (2020)
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Kelly, J. E. (2020). England and the Catholic Reformation: The Peripheries Strike Back. Journal of Early Modern Christianity, 7(2), 271-285. https://doi.org/10.1515/jemc-2020-2022

Although the Protestant Reformation has traditionally been the focus of research on early modern England, the last two decades have witnessed a rapid increase in scholarship on the experience of the country’s Catholics. Questions surrounding the impl... Read More about England and the Catholic Reformation: The Peripheries Strike Back.

Cut & Splice: Reading Judges 19 Cinematically (2020)
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Hurlbert, B. M. (2022). Cut & Splice: Reading Judges 19 Cinematically. Biblical Interpretation: A Journal of Contemporary Approaches, 30(2), 125–149. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685152-00284p20

What is the purpose of the violence in Judges 19 and what does this narrative aim to accomplish in its readers? Phyllis Trible (1984), Cheryl Exum (1993), and more recently, Margaret Atwood (2019), suggest that this violence is viewed positively by t... Read More about Cut & Splice: Reading Judges 19 Cinematically.

The Causes of Human Sexual Orientation (2020)
Journal Article
Cook, C. C. (2021). The Causes of Human Sexual Orientation. Theology & Sexuality, 27(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/13558358.2020.1818541

Research on the causes of human sexual orientation has been marshaled in support of predetermined and opposing theological viewpoints. Whilst acknowledging that there is still much that is not known, the peer reviewed scientific literature clearly sh... Read More about The Causes of Human Sexual Orientation.