For Christian theology to learn from Muslims, it cannot simply cross over into Islamic thought by reading Muslim texts or appropriating ideas. The theologian must find a way attend the history of Christian-Muslim polemics in non-confrontational fashion that still accounts for disagreement and difference. Many voices offer profound challenging questions concerning theology. This essay proposes c...

Editorial Note: Herbert W. Richardson's book Toward alz American Theology (New York: Harper & Row, 1967; xiv + 170 pp. ; $ 3.95) blazes new trails in the field of theology. The last chapter, which emphasizes the sanctifying influence of Sabbath observance in the realm of the theological experience of the modern Christian, is a refreshing and uniquely thoughtprovoking essay on the subject. Belie...

We argue that analytical and critical aspects of theology can contribute to organizational research, and potentially assist in elaborating new concepts. To lay this out, we use Christian orthodox theology of icons as an analytical framework to study organizational visual representations. We generate three important insights. First, we point to the need, so far neglected, to question and theoriz...

There are references to “the scarlet thread” in both Christian and Jewish theology. “The scarlet thread” which is the title of my talk does not refer to any aspect of any theology. It does not refer to either the scarlet cord Rahab, the harlot, who lived in the city of Jericho, let down from her window to save her and those of her household from the Israelites (to find out more about her salvat...

1 Quality of Life, Spirituality and Coping, Institute of Integrative Medicine, Witten/Herdecke University, 58313 Herdecke, Germany 2 Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany 3 Caritas Sciences and Christian Social Work, Faculty of Theology, Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg, 79098 Freiburg, Germany 4Research Unit of Health,...

Introduction In his early article on the philosophy of hope, Paul Ricoeur admiringly spoke of Moltmann’s eschatological theology: “For my part I have been very much taken with – I should say, won over by – the eschatological interpretation that Jurgen Moltmann gives to the Christian kerygma in his work The Theology of Hope.” It is quite uncommon for a contemporary European philosopher to so exp...

This paper critically examines the “liberation theology” of José Porfirio Miranda, as expressed in his Marx and the Bible (1971), with a focus on the central idea (and subtitle) of this work: the “Critique of the Philosophy of Oppression.” Miranda’s critique is examined via certain key tropes such as “power,” “justice,” and “freedom,” both in the context of late twentieth-century Latin American...

Acta Theologica is the official and accredited theological journal of Faculty Theology University Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. an African publishing independently reviewed research articles on broad Christian-theological religion topics, aimed at a national international academic audience/readership. The Editorial Board accepts considers for possible publication in English, written f...

Against the background of the HIV epidemic and the intense public controversy on homosexuality in African societies, this article investigates the discourses of academic African Christian theologians on homosexuality. Distinguishing some major strands in African theology, that is, inculturation, liberation, women’s and reconstruction theology, the article examines how the central concepts of cu...

Acta Theologica is the official and accredited theological journal of Faculty Theology University Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. an African publishing independently reviewed research articles on broad Christian-theological religion topics, aimed at a national international academic audience/readership. The Editorial Board accepts considers for possible publication in English, written f...