Although a theological exchange of ideas between Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Christians flourished at the end twentieth century, ecumenical achievements these discussions have been met with notable objections critiques by theologians. This article focuses on one key notion that was highlighted for having left unresolved in discussions, namely concept difference natures Christ ‘in contemplatio...

Abstract In recent years, Protestant theology—particularly of the Reformed and evangelical variety—has shown an increased interest in historical retrieval. Various theologians have engaged work mining Great Tradition Christianity order to resource contemporary theology with wisdom from past. Presupposed this retrieval is a claim that by no means foregone conclusion for Roman Catholic Eastern Or...

as we all know, human beings and animals in their life sometimes encounter with hardships and pains, while they were not culpable. some of the motazela and emamiyeh’s theologians called this pains “the primary pains” and they generally regard them as a good events, because they are coming from allah. in this respect (goodness of the primary pains) there are two different ideas: the first one th...

Is it really true that “All Scripture is inspired by God?” (2 Ti 3:16). Some feminist theologians argue that the Bible is nothing but male-centered works that are critically tainted with androcentrism. Nevertheless, the belief that the Bible was written completely by the revelation of God has legalized that the rights of women have been oppressed by the biased Christian doctrines. Today feminis...

T AIM of this essay is to clarify the models of moral thinking and doing called teleology and deontology, to gain understanding of utilitarianism as a subcategory of the former, and to explore the relation both to utilitarianism and to teleology in general of certain Christian "consequentialist" modes of moral argument. This purpose arises out of a general and considerable unclarity in recent e...