Aristotle’s On generation and corruption raises a vital question: how is mixture, or what we would now call chemical combination, possible? It also offers an outline of a solution to the problem and a set of criteria that a successful solution must meet. Understanding Aristotle’s solution and developing a viable peripatetic theory of chemical combination has been a source of controversy over th...

Abstract Juan Antonio Estrada, a Spanish philosopher and theologian, proposes the search for meaning in life as theological place valid experience of God. The “achieved” or fully realized life, to which every human being aspires, is proposal salvation that Jesus makes possible with proclamation Reign opens hopeful future Easter. By bringing reason faith into dialogue, Estrada contributes fundam...

D arwin’s elucidation of natural selection as a creative evolutionary force was one of the monumental intellectual achievements in the history of science, not only revolutionizing thought across the biological sciences but also fundamentally impacting much discourse in the social sciences, philosophy, and religion. No longer were explanations for the origin and marvelous adaptations of organism...

The nature of the soul and its relationship to the body has always proved problematical for Christian philosophy. The source of the difficulty can be traced back to the efforts of the early Fathers to reconcile the essentially pagan concept of an immaterial and immortal soul with apostolic teachings about the after-life in which all the emphasis is placed upon the resurrection of the body. The ...

WHEN AN IMPORTANT new name appears on the theological horizon thinking Christians experience a natural though probably an unwise urge to classify the newcomer in terms of established labels, so that his contribution might the more readily be assimilated into current church thinking. In the case of Wolfhart Pannenberg this would seem to be a mistake. Not only is his theology still only roughly s...

This article focuses on Wentzel van Huyssteen’s work theological anthropology, attending especially to his emphasis the temporal and narrative dimension of personal identity. In this regard, Van Huyssteen draws thought Paul Ricoeur, including view that memory is gateway self. With in mind, first part highlights some key features engagement last decade or two with question what it means be human...