It is not inappropriate to understand the modern and postmodern periods in the West as representing two moments of intellectual revolution. The modern era was spawned by an intellectual revolution that upset the assumptions of medieval philosophy just as postrnodernism in the contemporary period is founded on an intellectual outlook that challenges the assumptions of modern categories.' In this...

Abstract Kornelis H. Miskotte's theology generally, and his Biblical ABC s —an important wartime work newly translated into English—in particular represent a welcome provocation to contemporary Christian theology. This essay assesses the key theological claims at heart of work, reflects critically upon their meaning significance, then draws them converation with number current trends trajectori...

Toward the end of seventh century, Anastasius Sinai took it upon himself to offer advice lay Christians facing a new Umayyad world. For Anastasius, Christian identity needed simplification. In his Edifying Tales and Questions Answers , he would de-emphasize theology, arguing that was more basic affair, involving baptism, eucharist sign cross. him, these were ‘rites maintenance’, acts which sust...

The subject of inquiry in this thesis is the interface between worldview and psychotherapy. My interest in this topic was raised by the tension I observed between secular psychotherapy's focus on autonomy as a primary value in human functioning, and traditional religion's emphasis on external authority guiding people's choices. How should religious people benefit from psychotherapeutic care wit...

The interpretation of Old Testament theophanies was crucial for early Christianity’s theological appropriation of the sacred history of Israel, and igured signiicantly in the antiJewish, anti-dualistic, and anti-monarchian polemics of the second and third centuries. A Christian continuator of Philo’s “noetic exegesis,” Clement of Alexandria inaugurates an approach to theophanies that is differe...

In this paper I will investigate a recent development on St Thomas Aquinas’ definition of dual causality and see if it truly develops thinking or departs from it. Denis Edwards made significant contributions to contemporary Catholic theology especially as concerns the relationship between science Christian theology. one very interesting publication, Toward Theology Divine Action, employs develo...

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, as he is more commonly known, was a Jesuit priest who died in 1955, having worked for some twenty years as a paleontologist in China. While being a renowned scientist, who assisted in the finding of the Peking Man fossil, Teilhard’s main desire and scholastic efforts were to reshape modern Christian theology in the light of contemporary science, especially in his own...

The notion that, in the Christian Scriptures, term κοινωνία (koinōnia) can mean “fellowship” has been challenged on philological grounds. Scholars argue ancient non-Christian sources, meanings such as fellowship with fellow humans and God are absent that mundane of participation alliances to be preferred. Discussion this subject suffered from a dichotomy between whether usage classical sources ...