Incredible as it may seem, we can no longer assume that people in our culture understand what the proper definition of “marriage” and “the family” is. Not only is this a sad commentary on the impact of same-sex marriage activists on our society, it also shows how the culture’s memory of the biblical tradition on which it is largely based is fading fast. What is marriage, biblically defined? And...

Among Christians a new consciousness in medical ethics has been raised by abortion, infanticide and euthanasia. The horror of these practices is often called "sound medical practice." This situation brings into question all the ethics of a medical worldview that allowed such practices to become routine. Many ethicists have observed that Protestants have lagged behind in their development of med...

tenable. 20. Students of Pauline Christology and eccIesiology have to tease out the apostle's meaning when they confront some problem texts. The merit of R. Yates' extended note on one such text (' A Reexamination of Ephesians 1: 23', ExpT 83. 5, pp. 146-151) is that he covers and considers all the viable possibilities before stating his verdict. Thus the reader has a conspectus of the field be...

first with the poetic view of mind, with examples from Homer and the tragedians, second with the philosopher's, i.e. largely Plato's, and finally with the medical, i.e. the early Hippocratic texts. All three approaches are combined in a discussion of hysteria, in which he also stresses the social and sexual prohibitions of Athenian women and the ambivalent, yet often effective, distancing of th...

An Anglican theologian contends that the claim to absolute protection for the human embryo from the moment of conception is a recent one in the Roman Catholic moral tradition. Citing pre-classical, classical, biblical, and post-biblical Roman Catholic sources, Dunstan argues that these traditions attempted to grade the protection provided to the nascent human being according to the stages of i...

The purpose of this article is to examine major interrelated issues that are present in current discussions about the biblical Flood narrative of Gen 6-9. These include such questions as: the unity and literary genre of these chapters, the nature and extent of the biblical Flood, the relationship between history and theology in the Flood narrative, and the relationship of the biblical Flood nar...

Abstract The article presents relations between Old Polish biblical-apocryphal narrations to Church Fathers’ texts. There are numerous questions: which Fathers were known authors? What specific writers’ preferences? Were the choices made by authors different in this respect from European practice? How writings translated? Was there any difference how patristic texts used compared other works (c...

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