Responsibility without Choice: Harare's Baptist Christians and Normative Freedom Amidst Uncertainty

Baptists living in Zimbabwe's capital city, Harare, engage with a long-standing debate in Christian theology and beyond: that of the relation between moral responsibility and human freedom. The presumption has often been that to be held morally responsible, a person must be free to choose and t...

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Main Author: Green, Leanne Williams ca. 20./21. Jh. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2023
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 91, Issue: 2, Pages: 326-345
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