Challenges Facing Practical Theology [PDF]
Practical theology can be considered as a kind of practical and functional expansion of theological teachings or something derived from theology in human life.
Akbar Qorbani
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Analysis and Examination of the Influence of Whitehead's Process Philosophy on Theological Transformation, Focusing on the Issue of "Becoming" [PDF]
Alfred North Whitehead's "process philosophy," a novel and influential perspective in contemporary philosophy, examines the organic and interconnected relationships between the various elements of existence and processes.
Mahdi Monazzah +2 more
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THEOLOGIES COMPLETING NATURALISM'S LIMITATIONS
Scientific Naturalism has no eternal life and purpose. Tillich's existential and Whitehead's process theologies overcome the limitations of scientific “naturalism without religion.” Tillich, Wildman, Whitehead, and Bracken update the Bible's promise of ...
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Pentecost, process, and power: A Critical Comparison of Concursus in Operational Pentecostal-Charismatic Theology and Philosophical Process-Relational Theology [PDF]
Doctor Theologiae - DThThis doctoral thesis comprises a critical comparison of the theme of concursus, the way in which God and humanity interact, in the Pentecostal-Charismatic and Process-Relational traditions.
Reichard, Joshua David
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DIVINE POWER AND THE SPIRITUAL LIFE IN AQUINAS [PDF]
The role of divine power in Aquinas’s spiritual doctrine has often been neglected in favor of a focus on the primacy of charity, the controlling virtue of spiritual progress. The tendency among some thinkers (e.g.
Heather M. Erb
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The idea that the Creator has a plan for creation is deeply rooted in the Christian notion of Providence. This notion seems to suggest that the history of creation must be the execution of the providential plan of God.
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Popular understandings of the Christian doctrine of creation are subject to two common misconceptions. Firstly, it is often viewed as a scientific hypothesis or historical claim about the origin of the world.
Ian A. McFarland
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Religion and Modernization in Theology Faculty Students -The Case of Sivas Cumhuriyet University-
In the context of the main principles, modernity has affected the relationship of individuals with society in two ways; either by promoting a comprehensive individualization or by paradoxically surrendering individual freedoms to new relations due to the
Erdic, Saban
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God, Freedom, and Evil: Perspectives from Religion and Science
This paper develops analogies concerning the evolution of dissipative structures in nonequilibrium thermodynamics to interpret irrational human behavior in which one finds a lack of correspondence between the invested means and the consequences observed.
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Oscillations of love. Relationship of Law and Gospel in the context of the theology of the process (on the example of the theology of Katherine Keller) [PDF]
The author examines the basic principles of the modern theology of the process inspired by the philosophy of the process of Alfred Whitehead. It is studied on the example of theology of a prominent representative of this trend, our contemporary Katherine
Anton Vladimirovich Tihomirov
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