https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/33622 2026-04-12T21:14:42Z 2026-04-12T21:14:42Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28434 2018-03-29T01:27:10Z 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Culture and religion in America Abstract: The relationship between culture and religion has been an enduring problem in every age. However, the emphasis on the relationship of both and the prevalence of one over the other differed from time to time and from culture to another. This is due to the fact that culture and religion are complex human phenomena yet subject to the social milieu. Hence, it seems to the writer that for a possible better understanding one has to look for a definition of religion and culture. Then, one may look at them in different stages as they developed in time. In view of these stages one may see to what stage one's concept of the relationship of religion and culture belongs and how it could effect his personality.

1977-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28425 2018-03-29T01:26:57Z 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Contemporary trends in the philosophy of religion Abstract: In his film, The Seventh Seal, Ingmar Bergman, who has been doing with a movie camera what contemporary philosophers of religion are doing in page after page of learned treatises, tells the story of a knight who returns from the Crusades to find his native Denmark scarred by the black plague. He meets 'Death' in human form and engages him in a running game of chess while he searches for the meaning of his life and ponders the existence of God. In seeking to become certain that there is a God, the knight carries on an intellectual discussion with his squire who is just as certain that there is no God. The plague requires both knight and squire to perform various acts of compassion, but it is the squire who acts while the knight is too involved in philosophical speculations. He deviates from this task only very briefly to share a meal of strawberries and milk with their simplicity that he tries to hide them from the sight of death.

1977-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28423 2020-03-27T14:58:04Z 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: L'etre nouveau dans le Christ est notre salut Abstract: Avec cette deuxieme partie, nous arrivons maintenant au coeur de l'oeuvre de Tillich. Toute la demarche anterieure nous prepare le chemin pour mieux situer la christologie dans son oeuvre. De fait, nous pouvons dire que l'ensemble de la theologie de Tillich vise a faire jailer en pleine lumiere la recherche de l'Inconditionnel par tout homme, et a montrer par la suite l'identite qui existe entre l'Inconditionnelet l'Etre Nouveau qui s'est manifeste dans le Christ.

1977-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28421 2018-03-29T01:27:11Z 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Liturgical symbolism in the baptismal homilies of St. John Chrysosthom and Theodore of Mopsuestia Abstract: On account of the intensive missionary activity of the early Church and the changed situation brought about by the Constantinian settlement, the urgent need existed for an organization capable of coping with the increased number of persons asking for admission into the Church, so that only those worthy of membership would be accepted. There had always been an insistence that no one should be received into the Church unless he had first been fully instructed in the faith, but this instruction was originally more or less a private initiative. It was only later, perhaps after the great shock resulting from the large number of defections during the Decian persecutions, that instruction in the faith came under direct ecclesiastical supervision with the introduction of the catechumenate.

1977-01-01T00:00:00Z