This paper critically explores the political theology of Carl Schmitt. It argues that Schmitt’s analysis, which links the transcendence of God with the political concept of sovereignty, is both too nostalgic and too severe. In the place of Schmitt’s political theology that disdains democracy for the failures of modern liberalism, this paper instead draws on the recent collaborative works of Mic...

In the present discussion of multiplicity sciences as against unity knowledge, sometimes possibility one super-science is advocated with a suggestion that all other scientific methods should be reduced to just method particular, usually natural science. Such reductionism often leads disrespectful pronouncements at address and their methods.This article advocates theological foundations for meth...

Robert Stein is the Mildred and Ernest Hogan Professor of New Testament at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Dr. Stein has a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary, taught at Bethel College and Bethel Theological Seminary from 1969-1997, and has served as a Professor at Southern since 1997. He is a renowned scholar and has writ ten numerous books, articles, and book reviews. His mos...

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...

Following the demise of Mun Sŏn-myŏng in 2012, the South Korean Unification Movement has entered an era of female leadership. Mun!s widowed wife, Han Hak-cha, rose to become the group!s sole new leader. Drawing on a distinct (co-)messianic narrative, while resuming on the givenmillenarian trajectory – both chiefly shaped byMun – Han successfully coped with the theological and organisational cha...

The fundamental aspects of the General Grand Unification Model (GGU-model) processes are illustrated. This universe generating cosmogony is interpreted using various secular schemes. It is further interpreted, in detailed, via a strict Biblically verified theological scheme.

This study undertakes a narrative reading of the text of Acts 15:1-31 and develops the construct of implicit theology, defining it as generic, usually unspoken ideas about the theological realm that have a measurable effect on individual and congregational behavior. The reading of the Jerusalem council narrative (Acts 15:1-31) highlights three points of view regarding law, grace, and fellowship...