contemporary poets and writers use from their past legacy and their work influenced by the relationship to the bad or good works of the past writers whom they revealed strength and weakness of the past societies. najib mahfouz used past legacy in his work by “thartharafawq al-nil (“chatter on the nile”) and animate and quicken his novel with this skill. he used kinds of past legacies such as hi...

!is article o"ers a critical re#ection on the mutually resonant recent works of Clayton Crockett and Je"rey Robbins, both of whom expose “radical theology” as insu$ciently political, “political theology” as insu$ciently radical, and “radical politics” as insu$ciently attuned to theology. In light of these shortcomings, they o"er a radical political theology as a “necessary supplement” to the pr...

A would adopt a new fashion, j u m p on a new bandwagon. At best it would endorse somewhat bela tedly--abst ract policies of resource management . At worst, it would blunder into grossly Selfish ecological programmes which effectively serve the interest of the rich and the powerful. There are m a n y shades of green! Some ecological policies are unacceptable in that they overlook disadvantaged ...

Life is plural and diverse, biodiverse. This reality has always provoked philosophy, the sciences, and also theology. But how does theological thinking reflect on this eco-human diversity? What about religious diversity? Are diversity and pluralism the same phenomenon? These questions express the aim of this article: to reflect on theology in the face of diversity and pluralism. With the method...

This article takes up the onto-theological critique of metaphysics and questions whether onto-theology is not something to evade or overcome, but is inevitable. Consequently, it furthers the exploration of onto-theology by asking, if it is inevitable, then what comes after onto-theology? For the past half-century, onto-theology has been a central concern for philosophy, particularly in phenomen...

Given that comparative theology is aimed at learning from the insights of other religious traditions, the comparative theologian‘s confessional perspective must be engaged and subject to possible transformation through the discovery of truth in those traditions. Despite Francis Clooney‘s and James Fredericks‘ attempts to distance comparative theology from the theology of religions, its truth-se...

Renewalist Christian ministries espouse a “Health and Wealth” theology that is embraced by increasing numbers of believers. This study investigated leading renewalist ministries’ World Wide Web sites to assess their application of visual, operational, and informational enhancements to communicate social order. A content analysis revealed a communication of social order that is consistent with p...

Practical theology describes a context, interprets what has been discovered, brings in Christian norms, and constructs models of Christian practice. It is a process that involves epistemology and hermeneutics. For practical theology to be transformative, a postfoundational theological framework that allows interdisciplinary work and interpretation of experience in a given context is essential. ...

Taking the case of ‘spiritual gardening’ as a starting point, this paper reflects on praxis as the object of practical theology. Praxis is understood as the domain of lived religion and focuses on what people do rather than on official institutionalized religious traditions. Praxis refers to fields of practices like care or community building and to the patterned configurations of action, exper...

The two previous articles in this three part series on the subject of systematic theology [published in the Conservative Theological Journal – see footnotes] dealt with the definition of systematic theology as well as the contribution that dispensational premillennialism makes to systematic theology. This final article of the series gets to the most fundamental issue by answering the question, ...