I take the first part of the title of my essay from a character in Mary Wroth’s Urania , dubbed the Lady of the Oddest Passion, who makes a fleeting appearance in book 3. 1 This lady, described as “most loving, most discreet” (452), is loved by, and in return loves equally, two men. All three were content with this situation for a time, but ultimately the Lady is pressed to choose between the s...

female love, it being thought that women were destined to love each other anyway and passively lie in each other's arms, as pictured in dozens of illustrated Victorian calendars showing fair maidens intertwined in the meadow or caressing by the brook under a tree. White includes only a few female voices before the 1870s: Charlotte Bronte in a letter of 1837 to Ellen Nussey, and Adah Isaacs Menc...

Frei Betto (Carlos Alberto Libânio Christo) was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1944. He is a Dominican friar and theologian, being among the most relevant internationally recognised exponents of «liberation theology». This militant pastoral social movements resisted Brazilian military dictatorship, under which he imprisoned endured torture: related this experience Baptism Blood (Jabuti Prize, ...

The Bible is a cross-cultural (cc) training document. It has the only absolutes that we possess. A member of any culture can use it safely to relate both to God and to fellow humans. Ted Ward, a missiologist, has said that commonalties outweigh differences among people. We are more alike than dissimilar. The image of God rests on all people (Gen. 1:27). All people have a longing for eternity in...

IN THIS PAPER we wish to review contemporary biological data about the early human embryo in relation to philosophical and theological claims made of it. We are seeking to discover more precisely what degree of moral weight it can reasonably bear. While other ethical conclusions might well be drawn from the results of such a reflective investigation, we limit ourselves to a few moral considerat...

at the basis of worshiping by humans and all other being a deity is revealed. that means there is a god who is also the creator and the only one .he is beyond time and cannot be imagined in particular space. only the relationship of man with his god satisfies his need to worship, for this relationship is the way to reach to the presence of one god. reaching god does not come from man’s need to ...

The principal sources for Aristotle's account of the family are Politics I and II and Nicomachean Ethics VIII. In Politics I, the oikos (family, household) is defined as that specific form of koinwnia (community, association) which integrates individuals into a common life that enables them to become, as members of an oikos, members of a polis (political community, city-state) as well. In Nicom...

The so-called “phenomenological turn” proposes a return to the world of lived experience, overcoming rigidity classical ontology. In this sense, theology also speak God migrating from concept life itself. Keeping in mind, then, that gives himself history as Mystery infinite love, it is necessary find new category can express him, being faithful biblical testimony. chosen “event,” proposed by Cl...