This essay advances the idea that a dualism between faith and reason has come to characterize the postenlightenment theological enterprise.' This severance of faith and rationality is rooted in philosophical and not biblical modes of thought.2 The result of this dualism is the triumph of the irrational in the interpretation of religious symbols. It would appear that the rigid confinement of fai...

1 Quality of Life, Spirituality and Coping, Institute of Integrative Medicine, Witten/Herdecke University, 58313 Herdecke, Germany 2 Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany 3 Caritas Sciences and Christian Social Work, Faculty of Theology, Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg, 79098 Freiburg, Germany 4Research Unit of Health,...

An authentic Christian bioethical account of abortion must take into consideration the conflicting epistemologies that separate Christian moral theology from secular moral philosophy. Moral epistemologies directed to the issue of abortion that fail to appreciate the orientation of morality to God will also fail adequately to appreciate the moral issues at stake. Christian accounts of the bioeth...

This article first defines the absolute discourse, then discusses its possibility in theology, as well relationships between language, thought, and reality they derive from spirituality life of Eastern Church. Theology must face several problems—including paradox transcendence, violence metaphysics, onto-theology, duplicity language itself—, but Revelation Absolute itself legitimizes theologica...