In its political discourse, the European Union balances Christian heritage, secularization of societies, liberal values and Europe’s culturally religiously diverse contemporary reality. This article explores how narrates story Europe role Christianity in this narrative. exploration is based on two qualitative case studies focusing key heritage history initiatives Commission Parliament: Heritage...

A sample of 149 university students completed the Francis Psychological Type Scales together with the Francis Scale of Attitude Toward Christianity. The data indicated that university students classified as Feeling Types hold a more positive attitude toward Christianity than those classified as Thinking Types. These findings replicate the 1999 report of Jones and Francis.

Atheism is the mainstream belief system in contemporary China. In recent years, a growing number of Chinese have converted to different religions, particularly Christianity. In this study, we conducted a survey in the region of Xi’an to investigate the following three questions: How common is Christianity among college students in Xi’an? How many of them have converted to the Christian faith? H...

This article distinguishes the main ways of thematization Islam in Russian intellectual culture: as a civilizational opponent, inferior to Christianity revealed religion, potential Christianity, and others. These opinions differ from Tolstoy’s he understood full-fledged tradition that has some religious truths common distorts them throughout course history its own way. The special relevance con...

Christianity has had a long history in Asia. Although it is generally assumed that it took a very long time for the Gospel to reach Asia because Christianity moved westward since the time of Paul’s missionary journeys, Christians might have arrived in China as early as the end of the first century.1 There is also evidence of St. Thomas’s mission to India, Armenia’s declaration of Christianity a...

In the twentieth century, God raised many faith giants among Africans for and whole world. These heroes contributed immensely to decolonization, indigenization, expansion of Christianity in Africa Global South. Among these highly spiritually invested was a Beninese-Nigerian carpenter, Samuel Biléou Joseph Oschoffa (1909–1985). He educated Methodist tradition before Lord called him lead one most...

This paper presents a justification for Christian theodicy. It starts by critiquing William H. Gass’s depiction of Christianity as superstitious, ignorant, and evil. shows that his view is based on caricature (that is, God quasi-gnostic Demiurge) the understanding evil totally ignores misses contributions (what I call) Classical View theodicy within intellectual tradition from Origen to Karl Ba...

The integration between psychology and Christianity has been a hot issue for Christian counselors since mid 1970s. The movement of integration has been developed in reaction to the acceptance of psychology in the area of pastoral counseling without any criticism about psychology from the Christian viewpoint. Since Jay Adams totally rejected psychology in the area of pastoral care, the effort to...

Spirituality and journeying have long informed one another, both in people’s life experiences and literary endeavours. Spiritualities within the Christian tradition and their relationship to travel have been most commonly explored with reference to the pilgrims of the middle ages and the missionary men and women of more recent centuries. The people by whom Christianity was introduced to Austral...

Japan is a land of many contrasts. It is modern yet rooted in tradition. In general, Japanese do not have much interest in religions, yet religions are overflowing in Japan. Christianity is a minority religion in Japan, and the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement started there in 1972. In this paper, the author examines the influence of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement on the Japanes...