for many religious people there is a problem of doubting various creedal statements contained in their religions. often propositional beliefs are looked upon as a necessary, though not sufficient, condition, for salvation. this causes great anxiety in doubters and raises the question of the importance of belief in religion and in life in general. it is a question that has been neglected in phil...

Let us begin by summarizing what we have covered in the first 2 lectures, and then set the task for today's lecture. We have covered the following 4 issues: 1. Is dualism a necessary part of a Christian view of humankind? In Lecture 1, I suggested (without going deep enough to prove the point) that body/soul dualism has extra-Christian roots and is not a necessary presupposition for understandi...

the turbulent social, political and cultural situation in europe (and especially germany) in the early twentieth century led young heidegger to the question “what is the role and responsibility of the intellectual in society?” he maintained, in this regard, an important role on his own personal religious education, convictions and interests, because he believed that by creating interaction betw...

Karl Rahner’s short but influential work, The Trinity, is examined in this essay. I also consider some of Rahner’s other writings on the Trinity in order to better explicate the theological book under discussion. I locate Rahner’s Trinitarian writings within their ecclesiological and theological context, and then systematically expound The Trinity in order to demonstrate how Rahner attempts to ...

D. Vincent Palmer (M.R.E., Grand Rapids Baptist Seminary) is a lecturer in Bible and Theology at the Jamaica Theological Seminary, Kingston, Jamaica. The question "What is man?" still remains .I..o~e of the most difficult amongst social scientists today. To ask about the fundamerital character of the believer only compounds the difficulty. With an ever increasing post-modem outlook even biblica...

There has recently been a number of books on the Christian understanding of atonement. What has been fascinating for me is the extent to which these books do, or more often do not, use the Old Testament material on atonement as the basis for what they have to say. The New Testament speaks in a variety of ways about atonement, and this has become the centre of Christian dogmatics; but this ‘aton...

Like other scholars who hold that film is an important conversation partner with the perspectives of faith, Robert K. Johnston proposes to put film and Christian Scripture—and, specifically, Ecclesiastes—in a creative two-way dialogue. What makes Useless Beauty notable and well worth reading, however, is Johnston’s effort to resist the usual methods of Christian movie critique. Frequently, he c...

It has long been recognized that one of the main topics of the Gospel of Philip is ritual, including “the bridal chamber,” and numerous studies have discussed what practices and attitudes toward sexuality and marriage are implied by this imagery. This article will build on these studies to argue that the Gospel of Philip portrays the incarnate Jesus as actually married (to Mary Magdalene) and i...

From the early 20th century, Chinese “Indigenous Theology” served as main line in development of Protestant theology. It represents an important orientation communications between and Western culture well modern thought. Indigenous Theology was theoretical result combination religious spirit thought, with a strong background traditional culture. Its purpose to interpret develop thought within f...