Generally, this essay employs the concept of ‘stance’ to try understand theological thoughts and activities Bonhoeffer Christian community at large during turbulent events which occurred in Nazi Germany. In particular, it attempts a brief exploratory sketch how various socio-political contextual factors significantly shaped many his central ideas concepts. The suggests that Bonhoeffer’s doctrin...

Augustine famously summarizes all of ethics in the maxim, “Love and do what you want” his Homilies on First Epistle John, but also describes sin as misdirected love humanity characterized by sin. This raises question to how can offer such a maxim given humanity’s tendency so poorly. Aimed at ethicists theologians with only general knowledge Augustine, this paper examines Augustine’s approach it...

neither the ash‘arites nor kierkegaard’s systems of theology are anti-rational, for kierkegaard regards the contradiction present in the object of faith as absolute rather than logical, suggesting thereby the existential dialectics for understanding this contradiction instead of resolving it. the ash‘arites also hold that one can understand the existence of god through absolute reason, or reaso...

Thermodynamics is an exact macroscopic theory with no known exceptions. It has a long history of development that includes many famous Christian scientists. Recent developments in theology have occasionally invoked thermodynamic quantities or concepts in ways that are not consistent with either good science or theology. The present article presents a brief introduction to both classical and sta...

the article presents explanation and analysis of plotinus’ abstraction theology. in this theology he tries to get negative knowledge of the god. the meaning of the negation is neither of pure negation or privation but it is based on abstraction which purifies and abstracts one concept from else to attain the exact and true meaning of it. accordingly, this method of theology is the same as the r...

Dr Mandy Robbins is Senior Research Fellow within the Religions and Education Research Unit, University of Warwick and a Honorary Research Fellow at the St Mary's Centre. Mandy gained her first degree at the University of Wales, Lampeter in 1992 in Theology and Archaeology, her MPhil in Theology at Trinity College, Carmarthen in 1996, and her PhD in Theology at the University of Wales, Bangor i...

Note: This article is an abridged version of a chapter from Dr. S. Philip Nolte’s PhD dissertation, entitled ‘Pastors as gewonde genesers: Emosionele intelligensie en pastoraat (Pastors as wounded healers: emotional intelligence and pastoral care)’. The dissertation was completed in 2007 under the supervision of Prof. Dr Yolanda Dreyer, Professor in the Department of Practical Theology of the F...