This article considers the critical roles of preaching in addressing environmental crises by way engaging with Paul Ballard’s work as a particular practical theological methodology, namely use Scripture. methodological consideration is followed highlighting Earth Bible Team, which compliments work. Both works are used an example homiletical practice well learning exercise, demonstrating how Scr...

OBJECTIVE The problem of the substantial union of the soul and the body and therefore the mechanisms of interaction between them represents the core of the Cartesian dualistic philosophy. This philosophy is based upon a neuroanatomical obvious misconception, consisting mainly on a wrong intraventricular position of the pineal gland and its capacity of movement to act as a valve regulating the f...

This essay provides a close reading of Karl Barth's doctrine of election, attending not only to his argument but also to the patterns of his rhetoric and to his idiosyncratic use of terminology in order to uncover the theological logic that drives his doctrine, and thus to assess its validity. Particular attention is given to the telos of election as Barth conceived it, his theological method, ...

Theological education continues to be subject rapid social and technological change, which is further exacerbated by the recent global pandemic. Practical theology as a discipline grow, being well placed methodologically engage with diverse contexts these realities. The task for theological whether it can meet challenges part of transformation required. Openseminary methodology program was deve...

pierre teilhard de chardin, as he is more commonly known, was a jesuit priest who died in 1955, having worked for some twenty years as a paleontologist in china. while being a renowned scientist, who assisted in the finding of the peking man fossil, teilhard’s main desire and scholastic efforts were to reshape modern christian theology in the light of contemporary science, especially in his own...

Since the publication of the Third Edition of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services in 1995, the principle of cooperation has become the primary lens through which potential partnerships, mergers or joint ventures between Catholic health care organizations and secular health care organizations have been assessed. Directive 70 stipulates that “Catholic health car...

Bultmanll's fallluus questiull about presupposition/css excgesis is here taken up afresh and answered by a young Scandinavian scholar who lecturcs in Old Testament at Uppsala and is director oj the new 'Biblicum' institute established there, The paper, which is hased o.n an address given at all 1FES COIlference jor theological students in 1970, first appeared in the IFES journal for theological...

Public health ethics is a field that covers both factual and ethical issues in health policy and science, and has positive obligations to improve the well-being of populations and reduce social inequalities. It is obvious that various philosophies and moral theories can differently shape the framework of public health ethics. For this reason, the present study reviewed theories of justice in or...