Ecological Conscience and Peace in the Social Doctrine of the Church by Fabio Caporali

“…After highlightening the transdisciplinary process of emergence and development of an ecological conscience through the prophetic insights of scientists, philosophers and theologians, the recent contributions of the Social Doctrine of the Church are summarized with their content of innovation and faith in both a peaceful human society and a sustainable planetary community. …”
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The Religious Work of Beverly Jenkins’s Black Historical Romance by Jeania Ree V. Moore

“…Jenkins innovates in and amplifies the religiosity of Black chronicling through the erotic, a powerful religious resource embraced by Black women theologians, ethicists, and writers. This article draws on Black womanist and Black feminist scholarship to show how Jenkins centers desire, interiority, and pleasure within Black women’s moral agency and affirms Black women’s embodied flourishing. …”
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The Ethical and Spiritual Project of Martin Prozesky: Influences and Interests by Maniraj Sukdaven

“…Some of these were scholars, such as the internationally acclaimed Professors Alister Hardy, John Hick, Lloyd Geering, Ninian Smart, Wilfred Cantwell Smith, feminist Professors Mary Daly, Ursula King and Rosemary Radford Ruether, and various process theologians. Others were spiritual leaders such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mahatma Gandhi, the Chief Rabbi of the orthodox United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth (1991 – 2013), Jonathan Sacks, and the Dalai Lama.From his base in Theology and Religious Studies to his move to Ethics and Spirituality it could be established that there are five main contributions in Martin Prozesky’s work which he had made to academia and of which cognizance should be taken. …”
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Conversions to Catholicism among Fin de Siècle Writers: A Spiritual and Literary Genealogy by Claire Masurel-Murray

“…The Decadent converts were also marked by another major, but less obvious, imprint, that left by John Henry Newman. The Tractarian theologian’s religion may at first sight have little in common with the aesthetic religion of the fin de siècle poets, and yet his view of the act of faith as founded on the senses, the emotions and the imagination was certainly an element that they were keen to appropriate, and his focus on the human conscience as the centre of religious experience is implicitly present in the solitary and highly subjective piety that emerges in the works of Gray, Johnson and Dowson.…”
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Ecumenism from Below by Herbert Moyo

“…This paper concludes that the activities of the women’s leagues are forms of ecumenism from below as opposed to ecumenism from above by theologians and church leaders which has largely remained at a theoretical level. …”
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MU’TEZİLE’NİN TARİH ALGISI by Osman Aydınlı

“…First of all, Mu’tazilite theologians laid down their principles as ‘al-usûl al-khamsah (five root and fundamentals) and focused on theological and philosophical issues. …”
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Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa by Ashwin Thyssen

“…Third, it offers contemplation on the method that three queer theologians in South Africa are employing in their scholarship. …”
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Chrześcijańska sprawiedliwość społeczna kierunkiem dla rozwoju środowiska przyjaznego życiu by Stanisław Biały

“…Justice (perfection) of a democratic law-abiding State expressed as an environment of social life: this is an issue, that very frequently is present upon the lips of jurists, politicians, political scientists, legislature members, but also: ethicists, bioethicists, moralists, theologians, and others. This subject has been also taken for reflection because of the fact, that we are living in such a system, and more: we must struggle with many problems, which make one ask: is the democratic system that is being constructed founded on sufficiently healthy foundations, so that it may be possible to say that we are all equal in relation to the law being passed and that its principles are just? …”
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Ambiguity and confusion around the celebration of the Mawlid. by Mehdi Berriah

“…Among these scholars, Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328), one of the most divisive and influential medieval theologians in contemporary Islamic thought, seems to be a particular case. …”
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„Religion and Ecology” – nowy paradygmat poznawczy by Ryszard F. Sadowski

“…Significance of the situation recognized also theologians and religion scientists from many religious traditions who started scientific research on ecological crisis from their point of view. …”
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Les humanistes français, le roi et le tyran. Débats autour du tyrannicide au sein du milieu humaniste français, 1ère moitié du XVe siècle by Lucie Jollivet

“…Indeed, having confessed to ordering the crime, Jean sans Peur goes back on his statement and asks a team of theologians led by the Norman Jean Petit to prepare his defense. …”
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Godsdiens en Christelike teologie in die skadu van menslike outonomie: wetenskapsfilosofiese verkenninge by W. J. Richards

“…Sections 4 and 5 of this article deal with these trends as well as the opposition offered by theologians coming e g from the Reformational tradition. …”
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The Term ‘Ebda’ in the Comparative View of Fakhr Razi and Allameh Tabatabai by Mohammad Bahrami

“…The term Ebda (innovation) as one of God’s attributes has attracted the attention of a group of philosophers, theologians, and Quranic commentators, while others have shown less interest in it. …”
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THE 17TH-CENTURY JOHANNES HOORNBEECK’S VIEWS ON MISSION, ECUMENISM AND HISTORICAL THEOLOGY AND ITS CURRENT RELEVANCE by J W Hofmeyr

“…I address the issue related to an analysis of Hoornbeeck’s contributions as a missiologist, a theologian with a clear ecumenical and irenical orientation, and a historical theologian. …”
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Théologie et ecclésiologie chez William Laud (1573-1645), archevêque de Cantorbéry by Pierre Lurbe

“…This article argues that William Laud’s theology and ecclesiology are strongly interrelated. A theologian who gave pride of place to sacramental life, and whose forceful rejection of predestination made him close to Arminianism, Laud followed in the footsteps of Saint Cyprian in upholding episcopacy as the proper form of government for the Church.…”
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Insegnamento del beato Giovanni Duns Scoto sulla menzogna sullo sfondo della teoria scotiana dell’atto morale umano by Krzysztof Niewiadomski

“…John Duns Scotus. The Franciscan theologian shows iniquity of this act on the basis of a bad intention. …”
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Genesing en bevryding in Suid-Afrika: teologies nagedink oor die bydrae van Johan Heyns by J. H. van Wyk

“… On 5 November 1994 the well known theologian Johan Heyns was brutally murdered in Pretoria — an event which was commemorated ten years later on 5 November 2004. …”
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The Role of the Holy Spirit during Parousia in the Eschatology of Sergius Bulgakov by Maciej Raczyński-Rożek

“…According to the Russian theologian, Parousia is a revelation not only of Christ’s glory, but also of the hypostatic Glory of God, i.e. the Holy Spirit, and in this way it’s the final realization of Pentecost. …”
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On Theological, Philosophical and Sociological Themes by Davide Ceccoli Crimi

“…The article is the report of an attempt to connect Manlio Sgalambro, philosopher and theologian, standard-bearer of “negative theology”, with Luigi Moraldi, hermeneutist and exegete of the “gnostic texts”, who was part of the international team of translation of the Nag-Hammadi manuscripts. …”
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Dante : un guide spirituel pour l’Europe moderne. Quelques remarques sur les lectures dantesques d’Ernst Troeltsch à l’occasion du jubilé allemand de la mort du poète en 1921... by Bérénice Palaric

“…Looking at the interpretations of the poet by theologian and philosopher Ernst Troeltsch, one of the major intellectuals of the young Weimar Republic, this article aims to examine how Dante is used as a guide to meet the challenges of the reconciliation of Europe, of the place of religion in modernity, and of the democratization of culture. …”
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