NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion - Volume 57, Issue 2, 2003

Abstract Few concepts in the history of Christian theology have had such a lasting impact on contemporary political thinking as the doctrine of the just (or justifiable) war. In this contribution, I try to identify the meaning of the just war tradition as opposed to its two foremost competitors: a political pacifism and a crusader approach. After describing each of these theories, I draw upon the British-Indian philosopher Chandran Read More

Abstract Crucial for a right understanding of the ethical and theological problems of new terrorism, is to get a clear idea of its essential characteristics, viz. the creation of maximum panic by killing as many innocent victims as possible, and carried out by religiously motivated offenders in suicidal attacks. The present author puts forward that the ‘morals’ of new terrorism consist in a tribal inside-outside moralit Read More

Abstract Among the inscriptions in mosaic pavements in Byzantine Palaestina/Arabia quoting texts from the Old Testament there is a group, in which the inscriptions are accompanied by a figurative representation of the text in question. Here, the quotation and representation of Isa. 65:25 (= Isa. 11:6-7) are reviewed. Text and representation are found side by side in Ma’in, whereas the figurative representation alone is foun Read More

Abstract In the past many historians and theologians (for example F.A.G. Tholuck, H.E. Weber, P. Althaus, E. Bizer, and K. Barth) defended the thesis that post-Reformation Reformed (and Lutheran) scholasticism was an essentially rationalistic movement leading up to the Enlightenment. First, it was argued that Protestant scholasticism created an abstract doctrine of God as opposed to a God whose love for us is revealed in Jesus Read More