PRINCIPLE OF COOPERATION The November-December 2002 issue included several articles on the principle of cooperation. Discussion of the principle contributes to the realization of one measure of success of our current strategic plan: "Our voice has contributed proactively and positively to church positions on one or more key ethical issues." As we know, application of the principle has not alway...

The beginning of the 21st century is marked by a great revolution supported by science, which is called biothechnological revolution and our century a biotechnological century (1). Enormous advances in biology, especially in genetics have led to homological and heterological procreation in laboratory, human genome manipulation, genetic engineering, animal but also human cloning, and scientific ...

THE SECOND Vatican Council profoundly desired to bring the Church up to date (aggiornamento) and make it a more vital instrument of God's saving presence in a rapidly changing world. Crucial to the revitalization of the Church's mission was the reform of its institutional structures. Understandably, then, a significant aspect of postconciliar reform has been an unprecedented effort to reform ca...

Karl Rahner’s short but influential work, The Trinity, is examined in this essay. I also consider some of Rahner’s other writings on the Trinity in order to better explicate the theological book under discussion. I locate Rahner’s Trinitarian writings within their ecclesiological and theological context, and then systematically expound The Trinity in order to demonstrate how Rahner attempts to ...

This article analyzes Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol’s (1781– 1851) Tibetan Buddhist response to interreligious and intersectarian difference. While there exist numerous studies in Buddhist ethics that address the Buddhist perspective on contemporary issues such as abortion, euthanasia, and terrorism, there has been considerably less attention paid to Buddhist responses towards religious difference....

Job challenges the theological milieu of retributive justice prevalent in NearEastern society by daring to ask the veritable question: can people deserve? This article examines the theories of desert, agency, and righteousness embedded within the Job manuscript. Bracketing the question of theodicy, this study utilizes contemporary philosophical, theological and exegetical considerations to exam...

For several decades, Restoration studies have noted deficiencies in the treatment of the theology of leadership and of practical ecclesiology. This paper responds to the lack of research linking ecclesiology to organizational design and to the theology of leadership in the Church of Christ tradition by building upon the ecclesiological framework composed of theological tradition, church metapho...

Continental philosophers of religion and the theologians who engage with them have recently began to blur the lines between the disciplines of philosophy and theology. This is particularly true after the so-called “theological turn” in phenomenology. I argue for an appreciation of their approaches but will also express that these explorations must remain interdisciplinary. Far too often philoso...

Abstract Christians are increasingly choosing to leave the church during period of young adulthood. This trend suggests that there shortcomings in our practices religious education and faith formation. Here I propose practice theological reflection is a method can be employed address some these shortcomings. The article connects trends disaffiliation with psychological theories identity formati...

In order to evaluate the effectiveness of graduate theological education, Part 1 of this study sought to establish frames of reference for measuring success in pastoral ministry and to evaluate the relationshp between leadershp practices and those criteria.' Stated differently, Are leadership practices a predictor of success in pastoral ministry? We concluded that "using superior leadership pra...