The association of twins with health-giving powers is widespread in mythology, folklore, and religion. The Ashvins of the Rig-Veda, the classical Dioscuri, and the early Christian saints Cosmos and Damian are among the many examples of twins divinely empowered in the area of health and fertility. A characteristic set of attributes of twins recurs in different mythologies of wide distribution. I...

Can humans acquire knowledge of ultimate reality, even significant or comprehensive knowledge? I argue that for all we know we can, and that is so whether ultimate reality is divine or non-divine. My strategy involves arguing that we are ignorant, in the sense of lacking public or shared knowledge, about which possibilities, if any, obtain for humans to acquire knowledge of ultimate reality. Th...

The context of the article is call by Pope Francis expressed in Fratelli tutti to extend fraternity towards people on margins. discourse human rights proposed as an appropriate – though no means self-evident tool for theology use order respond challenge poverty. discusses against background situation poor border areas Czech Republic, which are considered suffer from injustice. It argued that, u...

The paper discusses Shakespeare’s preoccupation with the Christian notions of divine love, forgiveness and justice in Tragedy King Lear. In my reading I employ Jean-Luc Marion’s phenomenological reflection on givenness love Hans-Urs von Balthasar’s theology Paschal mystery. take issue Marxist existentialist interpretations tragedy which prevailed second half 20th century. My aim is not a simple...

This article explores the state of the art in theories of special divine action by means of a study of the Divine Action Project (DAP) co-sponsored by the Vatican Observatory and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences in Berkeley. The basic aim is to introduce the DAP and to summarize its results, especially as these were compiled in the final “capstone” meeting of the DAP, and drawin...

e nature of divine eternality is obscure in both historical andmodern discussions. In a way its obscurity is no surprise, given that the nature of time is so mysterious. But the obscurity is still notable relative to the other traditional divine attributes, which are comparatively much better understood. Our perplexities regarding eternality are compounded, I will argue here, by a failure to re...