This article argues that recent results of the cognitive sciences could make significant contributions to theological debates about free will, but they have been largely ignored by contemporary systematic and philosophical theologians. Recent work in psychology moral has do with our intuitive automatic patterns reasoning domains freedom responsibility. research will be relevant for many potenti...

In the article, data about national structure of students Faculty Orthodox Theology University Warsaw in late1920s-1930s is analyzed. The features self-identification different groups are designated. Conclusions made reasons for disproportionate representation among future theologians persons self-identifying as Russian and Poles.

T HE idea that God is One, as expressed, for example, in the Shema Yisrael: "Hear 0 Israel, the Lord thy God, the Lord is One," comes in part to this: there is but one God (if there's any at all). But it also comes to this: God is a unity, not a "heap." Insofar, God's oneness doesn't differ from the oneness of, say, legs attached to my right side; there's just one, and it's a unity, not a "heap...

This article grows out of two dominant perceptions that I have developed through my work with theological students and teachers. The first of these perceptions is that there is strong and growing interest in patristic interpretation of the Bible among evangelical biblical scholars and theologians. The second perception is that virtually all biblical studies students and professors I have encoun...

THE MORE usual view of theologians today is that the Christian revelation of God is not given directly in propositions. It is seen rather as an event, an experience, a meeting with God in Jesus' life, death, and resurrection. Subsequently, propositional judgments are legitimately made about this experience. However, the experience itself is always mediated to some degree by one's own world view...

Jean-Marc Éla, in his book My Faith as an African (1988), articulates a pastoral vision for the church Africa. According to “friends of gospel” must be conscious God’s presence “in hut mother whose granary is empty.” This awakening arises from capacity theologians “to catch faintest murmurs Spirit,” and stay within earshot what happening ecclesial community. The vocation theologian, witness fai...

Research on judgment and choice has been dominated by functionalist assumptions that depict people as either intuitive scientists animated by epistemic goals or intuitive economists animated by utilitarian ones. This article identifies 3 alternative social functionalist starting points for inquiry: people as pragmatic politicians trying to cope with accountability demands from key constituencie...