This paper critically examines the “liberation theology” of José Porfirio Miranda, as expressed in his Marx and the Bible (1971), with a focus on the central idea (and subtitle) of this work: the “Critique of the Philosophy of Oppression.” Miranda’s critique is examined via certain key tropes such as “power,” “justice,” and “freedom,” both in the context of late twentieth-century Latin American...

Twentieth-century philosophers of religion made strides forward in advancing sophisticated arguments about religious knowledge, language, experience and arguments for the existence of the theistic God. However, by the end of the century Anglo-American philosophers in particular tended to treat philosophy of religion as synonymous with a Christian account of the divine. Male and female philosoph...

Abstract In their 2018 paper, Carolina Adler, Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn, Thomas Breu, Urs Wiesmann, and Christian Pohl propose that transferability of knowledge across cases in transdisciplinary research should be thought terms arguments by analogy. We aim to advance this discussion about examining it the light recent ideas transfer, extrapolation, external validity philosophy science. problematis...

There are striking parallels between current capability theories and the moral philosophy of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781–1832). This article reconstructs central arguments Krause’s ethics correlates them with passages from works Martha Nussbaum, showing that such similarities extend not only to what, substantially, is being professed in either but also, procedurally, question how resp...

Prarthana Roselil Christopher1, Pamela Alice Kingsley2, Preety Negi3, Shubhra Rathore4 1Post-graduate Resident, Department of Radiotherapy, Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, Punjab, India, 2Professor, Department of Radiotherapy, Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, Punjab, India, 3Assistant Professor, Department of Radiotherapy, Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, Punjab, India, 4Associate ...

Contemporary philosophy of religion and analytic theology has recently experienced a revival regarding the nature Christian Atonement. The Kaleidoscope theory atonement says that major theories such as Christus Victor, Satisfaction, Penal Substitution, Moral Exemplar each capture an important aspect significance atonement. When taken together, they offer fuller picture than do individual theori...

This paper traces the complex relationship between classical literature and Christian doctrine in first four centuries. In earliest period of Christianity, we can identify two attitudes Christians towards Greek literature: hostile attitude shown by Tatian, Theophilus, Tertullian, openness to culture philosophy demonstrated Justin Martyr, Athenagoras Athens, Minucius Felix. A notable change happ...

This paper argues that the concept of sexual abstinence in early Christianity was not based on biblical proof-texting, but rather resulted from constructive theological efforts response to socio-political reality time and Christians’ aspirations towards women marginalized. By exploring discourse surrounding marriage sexuality Greco-Roman world its impact Christianity, this highlights how teachi...

The notion of Ubuntu as a moral theory in the South African and contexts, presents attractive norms an world view that can be articulated applied to contemporary Christian ethics. proponents perceive it philosophy based on maxim, ‘a person is through other persons’, whereby community prevails over individual considerations. It not merely empirical claim our survival or well-being causally depen...