importance of early Christian thought for theology today.

Theology and Religious Thought

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...

Open Source Software and Christian Thought

This article introduces the distinction between proprietary and open source software, and discusses connections with Christian thought. It argues that this distinction is important for Christians to understand, and covers four main resonance points between Christian thought and open source software: stewardship, building community, helping the underprivileged, and promoting creativity. It also ...

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...

Politics and Theology in the Thought of Richard Baxter

universals from particulars and to communicate the results in words. Therefore it is with some care that he draws his illustrations from the universals and the particulars. Is CD, 423. See also Works, vol. 6. H C , p. 22. 20 Ibid. 126 W A L T E R B. T. DOUGLAS Man, because of his social creatureliness, needs and desires to be governed, according to Baxter, who states: The intellect in man is ma...