Sacred natural sites have played important social and cultural roles in many cultures around the world for centuries. More recently, scientists have shown that sacred sites act as de facto protected areas. However , the potential for sacred sites to be integrated into conservation strategies depends on the motivations of people to protect them. The objective of this study is to understand peopl...

This paper explores a futures perspective for practical theology. Although there are some examples of a future orientation, a systematic futures perspective has not been developed. Building on futures studies (including predictive studies on foresight and design and architecture studies), the authors propose a methodological model for future-sensitive practical theology, accounting for the prob...

It is generally known that the teaching of Catholic Moral Theology before Vatican II focused especially on the aim of the marriage. It emphasized the three aims which St Augustine pointed out: proles, fides, sacramentum. Love seemed to be secondary because children were seen as the highest good of the sacred bond between wife and husband. From this viewpoint the Constitution Gaudium et spes of ...

University professor D. Mikuláš Russnák came from a clerical family. His father, Pavol was Catholic priest o f the Byzantine rite. mother Many, originally itemed Brinszky, Varhaftovce, and daughter of priest. bom on 30 April 1878 in Sopkovce. He received sacrament baptism confirmation Sopkovce 7 May 1878. had threesiblings. younger brother doctor sacred theology. vice-dean at seminaiy Prešov, c...

The interpretation of Old Testament theophanies was crucial for early Christianity’s theological appropriation of the sacred history of Israel, and igured signiicantly in the antiJewish, anti-dualistic, and anti-monarchian polemics of the second and third centuries. A Christian continuator of Philo’s “noetic exegesis,” Clement of Alexandria inaugurates an approach to theophanies that is differe...

Sacred forest groves in the Western Ghats of India are small fragments of tropical forest that have received protection due to religious beliefs and cultural practices. These forest fragments are an example of community-based conservation and they serve as refugia for many forest-dwelling species in otherwise highly anthropogenic tropical forest-agriculture landscapes of the Indian Western Ghat...

[Reflection on human suffering is a formative factor in the development of the theology of Schillebeeckx. The dynamic of "negative contrast experience" is significant not only for his approach to suffering but for his method of doing theology in the face of the world's suffering. Schillebeeckx dialectically incorporates the reality of suffering into the construction of a theology that neverthel...

Duran Bell and Cynthia Werner From the earliest days of the field, economic anthropologists have observed that material objects often are imbued with sacred qualities whose values can never be reduced to material necessity or monetary equivalent. In 2002, the Society for Economic Anthropology hosted a conference to reconsider these ideas in the world today. We invited Professor Maurice Godelier...