NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion - Volume 47, Issue 2, 1993

Abstract Adelman of Liège was the first who opposed Berengar of Tours in his views regarding the eucharist. He did so in a letter written at about 1051. Adelman defended a real transition of bread and wine into Christ’s body and blood by referring to the so-called corpus Christi-mystery and by expressing his doubts about the validity of sense perception. Berengar replied explaining the transition as a process of assumption into a Read More

Abstract This article presents a short survey of the life and work of F. Max Müller. It deals especially with his theories on the relation between language and thought, which are vital to his views on religion and mythology. Müller combined linguistic theories of romantic scholars such as Herder and Humboldt with the comparative study of Indo-European languages. His contention that language was not only a means of co Read More

Abstract A correct understanding of human freedom presupposes the theory of synchronic contingency as is developed by John Duns Scótus (1266-1308). With regard to human freedom the following aspects must be distinguished: I. Formal freedom: for any act of the will it is true that the will has the ability to will its opposite at the same moment. II. Material freedom, which concerns the ability to realize the possible states of af Read More

Abstract The teaching of missiology today is greatly facilitated by new tools such as dictionaries, collections of source materials and textbooks made available in the periode 1987-1992. Countries mentioned in the survey are The Netherlands, with several centres of missiological production, Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Korea, the U.S.A, and the Republic of South Africa. Monographs are not included. Th. Sundermei Read More

Abstract This article describes the typical Japanese changes in the belief system of a small group of descendants of Christians in the Nagasaki area of Japan who kept their faith in spite of the persecutions of the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1868). They are called Kakure-kirishitan: hidden Christians. The Kakure-kirishitan in a syncretistic way united Christian elements with Buddhist, Shinto and folklorist elements. In ascribin Read More