Christian Theology: the Classics

Political Theology and the Theology of Politics: Carl Schmitt and Medieval Christian Political Thought1

In societies where religion plays a strong and important role, the institutions of the society reflect the religion. Yet in societies where religion plays a more secondary role to say that all political concepts are secularized theological concepts is an overstatement. While Carl Schmitt does make a persuasive argument on the role of religion in political thought, he is also mistaken. In this a...

Contemporary Shifts in the Christian Doctrine of Hell in Anglo-American Philosophical Theology

This problem of hell is a specific form of the problem of evil. The possibility that perhaps a great number of people will end up in an eternal hell is a problem for the Christian who also confesses faith in an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent God. In this paper, I shall introduce issuantist views of hell and show that the basic formulations of this perspective do not provide an adeq...

THEOLOGY OF HOPE: ON THE GROUND AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF A CHRISTIAN ESCHATOLOGY Introduction

Introduction Jürgen Moltmann is one of the most important theologians of the past fifty years. Born in 1926, he spent most of his career (1967-1994) as a professor of systematic theology at the University of Tübingen. Even after his retirement, however, he has continued to publish at the same prodigious pace which had characterized his entire scholarly career. The present work, Theology of Hope...

History and Theology of Christian Welfare in Australia: A Review of the Literature

Holistic Rationality and a Complement Model for Natural Sciences and Christian Theology Interaction

A complement model is proposed to account for the interaction between the natural sciences and Christian theology that cultivates cooperation between the two disciplines. This model is based upon a conception of holistic rationality, in which the two main epistemological conceptions of rationality—instrumental and categorical—are enriched in terms of the axiological and metaphysical stances tow...