In this essay, I argue that the white Evangelical Church in South Africa has failed its witness. suggest needs to repent ( μετανοέω ) of theological error (“an emaciated gospel”) and consequent sinful withdrawal from socio-political issues. We need our naïve hermeneutics, under realised eschatology, unbiblical view missio Dei , laager mentality. Without repentance, argue, will forfeit role reim...

The value of forgiveness is emphasized in many religions, but little is known about how members of distinct religious cultures differ in their views of forgiveness. We hypothesized and found that Jews would agree more than Protestants that certain offenses are unforgivable and that religious commitment would be more negatively correlated with belief in unforgivable offenses among Protestants th...

The present article tries to analyze the role played in Hans Jonas’ ethical reflection by religious—namely, Jewish—tradition. Jonas goes in search of an ultimate foundation for his ethics and his theory of the good in order to face the challenges currently posed by technology’s nihilistic attitude towards life and ethics. Jonas’ ethical investigation enters into the domain of metaphysics, which...

Talk of matters ethical is, in the psychotherapeutic context, typically relegated to therapy’s preconditions and setting, i.e., its ‘frame’. What goes on within that frame, therapeutic action itself, gets theorised psychological rather than terms. An explanation for this is frequent imperative extirpate self-directed moralising. Moralising, however, constitutes but a phoney pretender life. A tr...