The Melkites, Jacobites, and Nestorians were the main Christian communities under Muslim rule. Several pre-Islamic Arab Christian authors wrote treatises concerning their beliefs in Arabic, some of which date back to the early Islamic centuries. The multiplicity of such polemical works suggests an intellectually open society and a degree of tolerance shown by Muslim leaders. Abu Raʾita...

the years 1702–1706 brought into sharp contrast conflicting Šiews of the body in popular belief and Lutheran pastoral theology, and in the secularizing project of the early Enlightenment. The dispute centred on the practical, local implications of territorialism, a theory of church subordination to the state deŠeloped in the 1690s by the Saxon jurist Christian Thomasius (1655–1728), the most in...

This paper initially addresses the possibility that expanding human-robot interaction (HRI) – particularly HRI involving humanoid service robots – may increasingly encourage de facto assignment of some measures of moral status to such artifacts. Finding reasons to believe that emergence of a social phenomenon of this kind is plausible, it then examines such assignment from the perspective of a ...

Fifteen volumes long, Against the Christians was written by the Roman pagan Porphyry circa 280 and was an educated man's studied attack on Christian theology. An exceedingly powerful and successful work, it and commentaries on it were condemned by the imperial church in 448 and burned. Only remnants which were contained in books that were primarily about other matters have survived until the pr...

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...

The article is devoted to the “meeting of thoughts” Rev. Prof. Józef Tischner and Leszek Kołakowski. meeting Christian leftist thought in context liberation theology understood not radically, as a South American movement armed struggle for values, but actions ideas regard values present among people Church. Both Kołakowski have repeatedly taken up themes related theology. In I will define role ...

Resenha do livro LUY, David; LEVERING, Matthew; KALANTZIS, George (orgs.). Evil and Creation: historical Constructive Essays in Christian Dogmatics. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2020. 336 p. (Studies Historical Systematic Theology) ISBN 9781683594345.

In the Western tradition, life has been defined within idea of reflexivity and unity. These two features are intertwined in what I call Bio-Theo-Political Paradigm autarchy, which living beings primarily as self-sufficient entities. The perfect being, thus, will be most autarchic, one that can achieve unity its own self- referred dynamics. This being is God, theology (both Greek Christian) conc...

Ancient angels as key to modern society The making of Angels in Late Antiquity: Theology and Aesthetics (ALATA)” combines texts (in Greek, Coptic, Syriac) images (chiefly ancient mosaics) research the origins Christian angels’ figures.

This paper aims to introduce and argue the need for laylayan theology. It theologizes a Filipino cultural concept that has been appropriated privileges brings fore voices of people from margins. In this study, invaluable contributions indigenous Christian youths, basic ecclesial communities, bai (Filipina leaders) faith mission are articulated. Laylayan theology hopes promote further reflection...