Abstract The burden of this essay is to show that Friedrich Schleiermacher's theology the atonement and account Christ's soteriological work as priest marked by recognisably Reformed commitments logics both build from critique John Calvin later scholastics. contends it when Schleiermacher departs strongly orthodox conclusions regarding substitutionary he mostly clearly appeals key aspects theol...

attending language and the science of linguistics is of an old background, and has been enjoying a special status in the two past centuries. since islam has a lingual foundation too, it is appropriate to reinvestigate and survey foundation of this religion, i.e., its language, through a new look which is proportional to the modern functions of language. the role of language in establishing a cu...

A well-known objection to divine will/divine command moral theories is that they commit us to the view that God’s will is arbitrary. I argue that several versions of divine will/divine command moral theories, including two of Robert Adams’s versions of the DCT and my own divine preference theory, can be successfully defended against this objection. I argue that, even if God’s preferences are so...

Bestselling author Tom Holland described in his 2019 monograph Dominion what he considers to be the paradoxical situation that, despite pervasive secularization of West, Christianity comprises most influential development history West. That Christian transformation antiquity apparently still influences we think about people and society today. One authors Late Antiquity that regularly quotes is ...

In Crossing the Threshold of Divine Revelation, William Abraham offers a rich, subtle defense of an epistemology of divine revelation. In this paper, I focus on a cluster of metaepistemological claims made by Abraham. Specifically, I argue that Abraham’s remarks about epistemic fit and the epistemic standards we bring to bear in making evaluations of divine revelation claims commit him to a spe...

Horrendous evil describes the anthropological view of excessive evils which devastate and dehumanise both victim and perpetrator, casting doubt as to whether life is worth living. Divine exultation and divine agony are viewed from the perspective of divinity, whose initial creation brought God pleasure and its fall an offence so deep that, though he considered its total destruction, God instead...

Nowadays, churches are found that led and managed like companies based on worldly principles, thus ignoring the important role of Holy Spirit in them. Whereas church is a fellowship those who have received God's grace faith Christ. In order to reveal light Kingdom world, serve others, grow with aim expanding earth. This paper aims analyze existence, ministry growth Church by using descriptive q...

Johan Cilliers relates that Grace upon came to existence in his experience of "being retired late", where he could "ponder the meaning life from a different angle" (xi). On one hand, implies does not have purpose academic contemplation. other it takes no time interaction with realise is indeed thoroughly grounded contemplating sophisticated theological manner.