Financial derivatives are credited with bringing to the fore a number of sociological and metaphysical problems for modernity, from the instantiation of particular modalities of risk to the destabilization of referentiality in knowledge-claims about the world. This essay argues that derivatives can take on the particular power they hold in such accounts only through a repression of their mathem...

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 ...

Using published theological and scholarly evidence, this article disrupts the stereotypical "born gay"/"sinful choice" dichotomy widely assumed to characterize religious views of homosexuality in the United States. It argues that we need to keep moral questions separate from questions about the fixity or fluidity of sexual orientation. Rather than two, American Christian and Jewish views of hom...

cosmo-theological argument is one of the theological arguments for [proving] the existence of god, which has been mooted since long ago and has recently been recognized in the theo-philosophical tradition of the west and become famous as theological argument. while examining the viewpoints related to the appearance of the world, particularly the big bang theory, this article undertakes to analy...

Rosman "Errol" Carrim (M.Div.) is a professor at the Caribbean Nazarene Theological College, Upper Santa Cruz, Trinidad. This paper was presented to the Caribbean Evangelical Theological Association conference in Montego Bay, March 1997. Tn order for us to clearly perceive the .I.challenge of teaching Scripture in a pluralistic age, I believe we must understand what we mean by pluralistic, or p...

While much has been written about the process of theological reflection, one of the least developed areas is an understanding of related outcomes, and the ‘difference that this complex, demanding process ... make[s] in theory and in practice’ (Woodward and Pattison, 2000:128-29). Through a detailed discussion of reflection per se, the paper argues for a range of outcomes resulting from the acti...

Martin Buber denied consistently that he was a theologian because he repudiated abstract discourse about God. However, he did affirm that intersubjective events in the world express theological truth, even if that truth cannot be possessed or professed thereafter as noetic content. In this paper I introduce a concept of “embodied theology” to elucidate this nuance in Buber’s religious thought, ...