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...

The Cambridge Platonists are modern thinkers and the context of seventeenthcentury Cambridge science is an inalienable and decisive part of their thought. Cudworth’s interest in ancient theology, however, seems to conflict with the progressive aspect of his philosophy. The problem of the nature, however, of this ‘Platonism’ is unavoidable. Even in his complex and recondite ancient theology Cudw...

I would suggest that the claim that "the preembryo is not a human being" does not enjoy probability. To my mind the arguments put forth to substantiate the claim fall short because they do not fully appropriate the biological activity of the preembryo, on the one hand, and because of an exaggeration of the importance of certain biological data, on the other. Instead, the case could be made that...

In the field of hioethics, freedom and autonomy assume the ability of self-regulation and determination. If one has the ability to make one 's own decisions, then one represents an autonomous and free person. Such a view of autonomy faces many difficidties, because it idtimately limits those who can be considered autonomous. Tlie Orthodox theology of the one Hypostasis of Jesus Christ presents ...

World War I irrevocably changed the face of the world, including Croatia and its capital Zagreb. While between 1880 and 1910 Zagreb became a modern European city, World War I (1914-1918) was marked by new municipal regulations that overturned the everyday life of the city. Social conditions reached catastrophic proportions, especially in the later years of the war. Soldiers and refugees swarmed...

Public representations of God range from the highly anthropomorphic to the highly abstract, and the present study explored whether differences in the interpretation of those representations are correlated with differences in one’s religious beliefs and religious practices more generally. American adults of varying ages and religious backgrounds completed a questionnaire that probed their belief...

This paper is born out of many years of thinking about the issues relating science and theology. I started out as an undergraduate, pondering such questions as those regarding the nature of physical law and the puzzle of why mathematics works in describing nature. Over the years of reflection, I have come to believe that if Christians are to take their faith seriously into the realm of science,...

If we compare the mathematics of antiquity with that of the seventeenth century, we find differences in a whole range of aspects. For the ancients, notions like infinity, chance, space, or motion fell outside mathematics, while in the seventeenth century new mathematical theories about these notions appeared. I believe that this fundamental change can be ascribed to the influence of theology. F...

The paper considers the relationship between law and theology within the Covenant Code. The first part o f the discussion reviews the influence o f the “divine law * hypotheses o f Alt and Noth, on contemporary scholarship. Particular reference is made to the consequences which Weinfeld draws from this hypothesis, fo r his view of the secularisation process in the Deuteronomic code. Subsequentl...