THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE is a proposed agenda, not a developed theological treatise. It is concerned exclusively with work to be done, not with work already accomplished. It is an attempt to establish a context, to present a beginning to a doctrinal conversation that will occupy the Church for a long time. It should therefore be read as an attempt to look at a whole set of contemporary issues whic...

At its best, the emergence debate provides a helpful model of what religion-science scholarship can and should involve. (At its worst it represents the faddishness and bandwagon effects to which our field is also prone.) Those involved in the debate must pay close attention to concrete theories and results in the natural sciences. They rely on the careful conceptual distinctions that philosophe...

T o LOOK SACK on our theological past is to see how much christian theologians and philosophers have neglected the exploration of hope. Charles Peguy once suggested that while her two 'sisters', love and faith, were the concern both of medieval and of reformation thought, hope has remained the neglected little sister out in the cold. What has in fact been written on hope in this century has oft...

The article describes a theological paradigm shift taking place in congregations in South Africa that empower them to become involved in development work as a way of serving their neighbor. It also opens the possibility of working interdisciplinary without compromising theological and faith values. The perspectives and assumptions of the new paradigm are outlined and the basic methodology of do...

This paper brings bioethics into line with biotechnology (which means extending the traditionally narrow definition of bioethics) and proposes a new field of biotheology as a theology of life which belongs alongside the more traditional sub-disciplines of systematic theology such as theological anthropology (doctrine of humanity), Christology, pneumatology and ecclesiology. An intentional focus...

The Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society was held in Pardington Hall at the Nyack Missionary College on the shores of the Hudson River, Nyack New York, Wednesday, December 30th, and Thursday, December 31st. More than 100 delegates and visitors were in attendance. Because of distance, most of the participants came from our New England, Eastern, and Mid-Western sections...

Differences in economic and theological approaches to debt cancellation result from differences in disciplinary assumptions in respect of purpose, method, and argument. We argue that they provide alternative commentaries upon the need for debt cancellation, but that it is not possible to demonstrate the superiority of one over the other, so practitioners in one are likely to continue to find it...

We argue that analytical and critical aspects of theology can contribute to organizational research, and potentially assist in elaborating new concepts. To lay this out, we use Christian orthodox theology of icons as an analytical framework to study organizational visual representations. We generate three important insights. First, we point to the need, so far neglected, to question and theoriz...

I put it to readers that the evangelical church around the world and in Australia has lost its way and is suffering a crisis of identity. Many who call themselves evangelicals have little idea what they believe or why—or even what we are meant to be doing. As Tom Slater put it: “what is the Christian cause? Is it the survival of the church? Is it the ‘success’ of the church? Is it the maintenan...