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...

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Every creature is good and subject to the principle of solidarity that everyone has been blessed and gifted with life by God. Therefore, we cannot have one without the other, and no man exists without an animal. Over the last several decades, our world has been confronted with many ethical problems and ethics is being more and more sought after in spheres of human conduct and profession. Man ha...

In one of his recent books, Jean-Claude Larchet argued that the study Hebrew is useless for those doing research in field Orthodox theology, since Church fathers used Greek version Old Testament (Septuagint). There are at least two reasons might be advanced order to prove invalidity Larchet’s thesis. First, fostering an attitude ignorance as regards Bible nurture anti-Judaic beliefs among stude...

A variety of themes are explored as the basis for developing a contextual theology of dementia. These include impairment, loss, dislocation, isolation, decline and death. These themes represent immanent human concerns with various kinds of experiences of “selfemptying”. It is suggested that dementia presents a kind of “malaise of immanence”, within which there is progressive inability to focus ...

Shailer Mathews (1863-1941) was the leading member of what is known as the Chicago School of Theol~gy.~ He was reared in a strict Puritan environment but when he went to college (1880-1884) he was influenced by Darwin, Huxley, and Spencer. Although some of his contemporaries were abandoning their evangelical affiliations, Mathews remained within the evangelical group; but "it led to an attitude...

Religion and theology are central ways that many people make sense of the world and their own place in that world. But the insights of critical studies of religion, or what is sometimes positioned as religious studies as opposed to theology, are scarce in disability literature. This article suggests some of the costs of this oversight and some of the benefits of including religion. First, this ...

This paper challenges conventional views of violent religious extremism, particularly those that emphasize militant theology. We offer an alternative analysis that helps explain the persistent demand for religion, the different types of religious that naturally arise, and the special attributes of the “sectarian” type. Sects are adept at producing club goods – both spiritual and material. Where...

On six occurrences (8.12; 13.42; 13.50; 22.13; 24.51; 25.30), Matthew recorded Jesus pronouncing judgment, using the idiom “weeping and gnashing of teeth”. Each occurrence played a central role in the development of Matthew’s theology, by communicating not only a fundamental component of the theme of judgment, but also an increasing force and potency of the event itself. It was discovered that ...