Weal and woe: introduction
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Theology is a discipline of major issues. We are interested in the fundamental questions of human existence, suffering and hope, identity and community, good and evil, history and future, salvation and damnation. We always run the risk of expanding our subject matter unto ‘the world and surroundings’. To avoid that, we have focused our joint attention in this book to the level of lived religion and faith in human biographies. What do terms like salvation, shalom, evil, and damnation mean in these biographies?
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