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Not the one about Jesus’ life and death, but the one about his Second Coming, featuring the world’s best foils: the red dragon, i.e., Satan, and the beast from the sea, whom theologians later interpreted as the Antichrist.
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Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
One character explains midway through the season how theologians are starting to think about severance—as a process that essentially divides a person into two souls.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2025
Times journalists have reported from Noel, Mo.; Antlers, Okla.; North Pole, Alaska; and Bethlehem (both the Pennsylvania city and the one in the West Bank, recognized by many Christian theologians as the birthplace of Jesus).
—John Otis, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Occasional exceptions can be made to this rule – for example, Cardinal Avery Dulles was a Jesuit and over 80 years old when named, and most recently, Timothy Radcliffe, a Dominican priest and theologian, is a 79-year-old member of the Dominican order.
—Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2025
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Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
One character explains midway through the season how theologians are starting to think about severance—as a process that essentially divides a person into two souls.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2025
Times journalists have reported from Noel, Mo.; Antlers, Okla.; North Pole, Alaska; and Bethlehem (both the Pennsylvania city and the one in the West Bank, recognized by many Christian theologians as the birthplace of Jesus).
—John Otis, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Occasional exceptions can be made to this rule – for example, Cardinal Avery Dulles was a Jesuit and over 80 years old when named, and most recently, Timothy Radcliffe, a Dominican priest and theologian, is a 79-year-old member of the Dominican order.
—Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Theologian.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/theologian. Accessed 5 Feb. 2025.
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