• Religious hydro-healing and medical hydrotherapy : links, benefits, contrasts and challenges 

  Orogun, Daniel (AOSIS, 2024-09)

  There seems to be some recognition of the relevance of dihydrogen oxide (water) in many spheres. Among others, literature in poetry, religious texts and medical science, address the value of water in emotional, physical ...
• Analytic philosophy and scriptural interpretations 

  Antombikums, Aku Stephen (AOSIS, 2024-10)

  The task of interpreting the Holy Scriptures has been a daunting enterprise throughout the history of the Church. This article explores how analytic philosophy could be promising in biblical interpretation. Notwithstanding ...
• Intersections of compassion, science, and spiritual care in global health for public health benefits 

  Orogun, Daniel; Harris, Harriet (Springer, 2024-12)

  Across the globe, spiritual care is offered by individuals, healthcare chaplains, and humanitarian, social and related spiritual groups on account of zeal, voluntary and paid services. Sometimes, services are provided ...
• The Roman Catholic conceptualisation of morality : its essence and distinctive character 

  Pope, Stephen J. (AOSIS, 2024-02-05)

  Over the course of its history Catholicism has generated several different conceptions of morality. The early medieval church conceived morality primarily in terms of caritas and other virtues, the modern church generated ...
• Reformation of marital laws in Hungary : early reception of Luther, Calvin and Beza before and until 1667 

  Magyar, Balazs D. (AOSIS, 2024-03-07)

  The main achievements of the huge research on the history of the Hungarian Protestantism show that at the beginning of the Protestantism the local reformers and preachers were interpreting Luther’s ideas, but from the ...
• The ethical debate about the use of autonomous weapon systems from a theological perspective 

  Engelhardt, Wolfgang; Kessler, Volker (AOSIS, 2024-07-18)

  ‘Pope calls on G7 leaders to ban use of autonomous weapons’ (The Guardian 2024) is the headline from statements which pope Franziskus made during the G7-summit on June 14th, 2024. In general it can be observed that the ...
• Divine presence and absence : a theodicy of narrative analytic theology 

  Antombikums, Aku Stephen (AOSIS, 2024-05-03)

  For centuries, philosophers and theologians debated how to reconcile the existence of an allpowerful, all-loving, and ever-present God with the problem of evil. However, the question of why the righteous suffer remains ...
• Are religious experiences immediate revelations? A study of Pentecostal hermeneutics 

  Antombikums, Aku Stephen (AOSIS, 2024-01-20)

  Religious encounters are essential to every religious tradition in which the worshipper encounters the divine. Although religious experiences have been reported in many religious traditions, they occupy a premium place ...
• Possible motivations for Christians to preserve creation 

  May, Andreas (Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie, 2024-01-08)

  Three different aspects are presented that can motivate people to work for the preservation of creation. All three motivations are closely linked to Christianity, so that Christianity could become the key to solve the ...
• Orthodox justification of collective violence : an epistemological and systematic framework 

  Simion, Marian G. (AOSIS, 2024-01)

  Using a religious studies methodology, this paper offers a detailed contextual mapping and a structural configuration of how collective violence is justified in Orthodox Christianity. The research design is explanatory, ...
• A historiography of victory : R.J. Rushdoony’s Christian philosophy of history as constitutive of his postmillennial theopolitics 

  Schlebusch, J.A. (Africa Journals, 2023)

  The twentieth-century Calvinist philosopher-theologian, Rousas John Rushdoony is considered to be the father of the 1950s Christian Reconstructionist movement in the United States—a movement dedicated to advancing the ...
• The monument that is epistemology a proposition for atheists and theists as elucidations of epistemology in religion and theology 

  Van Rooyen, J.A. (Johan) (Sciendo, 2023)

  For scholars that are working with epistemology and the importance thereof within the context of the ongoing bickering (fighting/mudslinging) between theist and atheists, or rather between rationality and irrationality ...
• Geskiedenis, natuur en algemene openbaring in die Christelik-historiese denke van Groen van Prinsterer 

  Schlebusch, Jan Adriaan (LitNet, 2023-06)

  Groen van Prinsterer (1801–1876) se Christelik-historiese beskouing is gekenmerk deur ’n tweeledige waardering vir die Godsopenbaring soos dit neerslag vind in die Skrif aan die een kant en in die geskiedenis aan die ...
• Etisering - personalisering - eksistensialisering van die geloofsbegrip 

  Veldsman, Daniel Petrus (University of Pretoria, 1989-05)

  English: This historic-systematic investigation by means of a literature study, focuses on the theological propositions in the thought of Rudolf Karl Bultmann (1884-1976) wi~h regard to his understanding of faith and, ...
• The problem of evil : does open theism have a better response? 

  Antombikums, Aku Stephen (University of the Free State, 2024)

  Open theism argues that traditional responses to the problem of evil fail to provide comfort amidst suffering because of their notion of metaphysical determinism and over-dependence on Greek philosophy. Open theists argue ...
• Luther on marriage, adultery, and its punishment : a brief comparison with Calvin’s thoughts 

  Magyar, Balazs D. (Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2023-03)

  The early period of the time of the Reformation was full of social, economic, and political problems reaching the circumstances of status confessionis. It is beyond dispute that the two high esteemed reformers, Luther ...
• Integral ecology : response of an emeritus professor to the contributions of his septuagenarian festschrift 

  Buitendag, Johan (Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2023)

  This article is an edited version of the paper read by the author at the launching ceremony of his septuagenarian Festschrift of the HTS theological Studies on 22 November 2023 at the University of Pretoria. It states the ...
• Opportunities for tackling sexual harassment in Zimbabwe : lessons from the Global North 

  Chimbunde, Pfuurai (AOSIS, 2023-12-22)

  This article employs content analysis to explore lessons that can be drawn from the Global North to confront sexual harassment in higher education (HE) in Africa and Zimbabwe in particular. The slow progress in both the ...
• We are stardust : dignity and right of non-human life on and beyond our planet 

  Jahnichen, Traugott; Losch, Andreas (AOSIS, 2023-09-27)

  Humankind is stardust, born of the evolution of life on Earth as part of the evolution of the universe. He is called to particular responsibility for all living beings and of creation itself. The article discusses whether ...
• Theology and cosmology in the Visuddhimagga of Buddhaghosa 

  Krüger, Kobus S. (AOSIS, 2023-07-05)

  The need to find clarity concerning (1) the relationship between scientific and religious cosmological discourses and (2) the imagining of a space where various religions could meet in fruitful conciliation as far as (1) ...

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