Today our lives are filled with technology through which we communicate, work, play and even engage with for making meaning. This implies the pervasive presence of digital media as an integral part of our everyday life. Although studies on media are mostly done by sociology and communication students, living in a digital age has significant implications for theological reflections. Despite this...

Historians of medieval philosophy have always paid attention to the topic of intentionality. This is not surprising. For medieval authors, the analysis of the metaphysics and the mechanisms of human cognition became over time one of the most important instruments for approaching a bundle of basic philosophical and theological questions, such as the nature of universals, the mind-world relation,...

Developmental theories suggest that children initially conceptualize God in concrete, anthropomorphic terms. In contrast, recent research has found that from early on, children recognize God as a being radically different from humans. Previous research has been limited to studies of Christian children. The present study questioned children and adults raised in a religious tradition (Church of J...

Since the publication of The Church of the Triune God (the Cyprus Statement)1 in late 2006, the International Commission for Anglican – Orthodox Theological Dialogue (ICAOTD) has focussed on developing an agreed statement on theological anthropology. As the work of the Commission is unfinished, with planned continuation of the discussion for at least the next two meetings in 2012 and 2013, the ...

Editor’s note: This lecture was originally delivered at the Evangelical Theological Society meeting at Westminster Theological Seminary in 1994. It was first published in Free-dom and Capitalism: Essays on Christian Politics and Eco-nomics in 2006. Originally given in 1994 during the Clinton attempt at socialized medicine, th is essay is needed even more today, as fewer seem opposed to it today...

How to cite this article: Louw, D.J., 2011, ‘Philosophical counselling: Towards a “new approach” in pastoral care and counselling?’, HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies 67(2), Art. #900, 7 pages. DOI: 10.4102/hts.v67i2.900 The practice of pastoral counselling was dominated for several decades by the Rogerian techniques of empathetic listening. To a large extent, healing was predominatel...

This paper presents an overtly theological critique of the governmental regulation of the international transfer pricing activities of multi-national enterprises. In the transfer-pricing arena, it is known that MNEs transfer substantial values across national borders. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development developed a set of Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enter...

This paper attempts two tasks. First, it sketches how the natural sciences (including especially the biological sciences), the social sciences, and the scientific study of religion can be understood to furnish complementary, consonant perspectives on human beings and human groups. This suggests that it is possible to speak of a modern secular interpretation of humanity (MSIH) to which these per...