Following the Second Vatican Council, the predominant trend in Catholic moral theology has been decidedly antagonistic toward the tradition that dominated moral theology before the Council, namely the use and formulation of ecclesiastically-approved “manuals” or “handbooks” of moral theology, the contents of which chiefly involved general precepts of morally good and bad behavior as well as the...

Surprisingly, there are at least three major theological subjects where Hermann Cohen seems to agree with Mendelssohn—against standard Jewish Reform theology. Even more interesting: All points stand in connection the religious thought of Moses Maimonides (1137–1204), medieval halakhist and philosopher, whose radical ideas Mendelssohn mostly rejected generally adopted. Should this observation be...

I NVITED TO REFLECT ON THE RELATIONSHIP between theology and ecology, and to explore why that relationship might seem to have 'lost its appeal', I decided to look at the Christian theological tradition and the demands that a fruitful and appropriate relationship with ecology might make on it. Do theology's anthropological postulates encourage the kind of theological freedom needed to respond to...

both positive and negative; in the medieval world, however, it held a precise meaning, often also referred to as “contemplation” or “the contemplative life.” The mysticism of this period had some merits, but also some serious flaws in both theology and practice. In many respects, the mysticism of the medieval world derived from early Latin mysticism, which in turn evolved from an amalgamation o...

background: ethics is a discipline, which primarily deals with what is moral and immoral behavior. public health ethics is translation of ethical theories and concepts into practice to address complex multidimensional public health problems. the primary purpose of this paper was to conduct a narrative literature review-addressing role of ethics in developing curriculum in programs and schools o...

1 1 2 3 4 5 Oculomotor capture by stimuli that signal the availability of reward 6 7 8 Michel Failing, Tom Nissens, Daniel Pearson, Mike Le Pelley, & Jan Theeuwes 9 10 Department of Cognitive Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The 11 Netherlands 12 2Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium 13 School of Psychology, UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia 14 ...

meister eckhart is one of the christian mystics that christian orthodoxy and catholic church accused his thoughts in medieval ages and named him heretic. most important themes that disparate the theism of eckhart from his christian predecessors are belief to godhead beyond god, denial of possibility of knowing god, innovations about trinity, belief to apophatic theology and etc. he defended of ...

abstract background: ethics was discussed for many years in medical ethics through rules, theories, hypothesis and religious. there are some organs in iran that working on ethics. department of medical science is one of them that has his own instructions on ethics. this study aims to review some of the challengeable issues in medicine. conclusion: department of ethics in iranian academy of medi...

s.asp). FELLOWSHIPS: The Harvard Univer-sity Center for Ethics and the Pro-fessions invites applications for Faculty Fellowships in Ethics for the academic year 2002-2003. Fellow-ships will be awarded to outstanding teachers and scholars who wish to develop their ability to address questions of moral choice in such areas as business, education, government, law, medicine, and public policy. Fell...

Peter Balla is the Lecturer and Head of the New Testament Department of the Faculty of Theology of the Károli Gáspár Reformed University, Budapest, Hungary. He received his Master of Theology (1988) and Ph.D. (1994) from University of Edinburgh. His Habilitat ionsschrif t was accepted by the Lutheran Theological Universit y in Budapest in October 2001. Dr. Balla’s doctoral dissertation, Challen...