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This paper argues that if Christianity is to be regarded as a truly world religion, Christians must pay serious attention to the ways in which the Reformation legacy has taken roots and found contextualized expressions a...

Book review on Josef Sorett, Black is a Church: Christianity and the Contours of African American Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, 239 pages, ISBN 978-0-19-061513-0

In contemporary Biblical Hermeneutics, the perception of a gulf between past and present mind-set has led scholars to seek for a transcending and universal moment within authoritative scriptures of Christianity (Schneide...

Ratzinger’s early work Introduction to Christianity presents an attempt at rational understanding of what theology considers to be crucial for Christianity and what should be thought over in the context of the (then) n...

Christianization of the Rus’ is a subject of many existing articles and monographs. This article however deals it again from a somewhat untraditional perspective. It stresses the possible influence not only the center ...

‘To mention Europe’s Christian roots implies indicating as well the residual sources of moral orientation, which is a factor of Europe's identity.’ [Joseph Ratzinger, Europe’s Crisis of Culture] This study will a...

This study focuses on the Pseudo-Clementine writings as examples of Jewish-Christian literature between the second and fourth centuries CE. In view of their mutual antagonism and friendship, it interprets them as an atte...

This article examines recent discoveries and re-discoveries of the writings of Isaac of Nineveh (St Isaac the Syrian), focusing in particular on the recovery of previously unknown collections and the critical re-evaluati...

Este artigo discute a religião através de um diálogo entre dois sujeitos fictícios: Tommaso, um behaviorista radical e defensor da idéia skinneriana de que a religião não se diferencia de outras formas de controle...

In this article we explore how campesinos in Ayacucho (Peru), understand both the political violence that has contoured daily life sine 1980 as well as the mandate to kill that arose within the context of the armed confl...

This article examines Henri Bergson’s gradual approach to Christianity and his moral adherence to Catholicism in light of his philosophical development. It will argue that Bergson’s work and his spiritual evolution c...

O artigo apresenta uma incursão pelo universo discursivo dos polêmicos personagens "Fradins", criados pelo cartunista Henfil. A intenção é colocar em relevo a construção de uma crítica política e de costumes que...

This study aims to identify and explain the dimensions of humor in the narrative of Eutychus in Acts 20:7–12 and to demonstrate its theological function within the framework of Luke's theology. It uses narrative analys...

El artículo presente explica por qué Kierkegaard afirma que los pensadores modernos se equivocan cuando comprenden su propia filosofía como una filosofía cristiana. El principal problema del pensamiento moderno es qu...

The Clarinda Church at Palayamkottai, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu, South India, holds a history that is overlooked in regional historiography. It is built on the roots of early feminism and women empowerment when a woman name...

The ‘Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together’, co-signed on 4 February 2019 by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al Azhar, Ahmad Al-Tayeb, states: ‘The pluralism and the diversity of relig...

This article discusses the historical background to the medieval Icelandic sagas. It draws on the work of Icelandic historians, especially Gunnar Karlsson, to argue that the key factor was a distinctive political order e...

Currently, the role of tourism significantly influences the economy of Indonesia. Ecotourism is an environmentally conscious tourism activity that prioritizes the preservation of nature, and empowerment of the local comm...

The aim of this study is to present G. K. Chesterton’s and C. S. Lewis’s understanding of sacramental realism and its possible adoption in pre-evangelisation. It is demonstrated that G. K. Chesterton’s works influe...

The following text is based on the outcomes of a long-term field research carried out in eastern Slovakia, and it focuses on the character and specifics of religiosity of the Romany settlements inhabitants. One of the ch...

The article deals with the problems of historiosophy, whose subject matter is human and social world view, its historical, religious, intellectual, ethical and aesthetical aspects. Hence historiographical interpretation ...

African and Western thought differ in their approaches to the eco-dilemma. The primary difference is rooted in a distinct worldview. A predominant Western dichotomy between the material and the spiritual, and the sacred ...

INTRODUCTION. The relevance of the study lies in the examination of the specifics of the Yugra text as a local hypertext, as well as the identification of the features of the mythological consciousness of Yugra writers b...

The aim of this article is to investigate the information about the possible Saxon-Bohemian contacts in the missionary field during the 10th and in the beginning of the 11th century. Although the Bavarian contacts are pr...