https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/41321 2026-04-11T14:17:39Z 2026-04-11T14:17:39Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/35990 2018-11-10T02:31:18Z 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Publications received in exchange with Melita Theologica [Melita Theologica, 38(2)] Editors: Abela, Anthony; Borg, Vincent; Eminyan, Maurice Abstract: A list of publications received in exchange with Melita Theologica.

1987-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/35989 2018-11-10T02:31:16Z 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Critical symbolism : the thought of L. Auguste Sabatier Abstract: Louis Auguste Sabatier (1839 - 1901) should not be confused with Paul Sabatier (1858 1928). Auguste Sabatier was a professor of reformed dogmatics at Strasbourg and Paris, ending his career as dean of the Theological Faculty of Paris. His philosophy of religion had a great influence on Loisy and other Catholic modernists. Paul Sabatier made some outstanding contributions to Franciscan scholarship, among them his Vie de S. Francois d'Assise (1894). He played a part in Modernism between 1904-1914 with his An Open Letter to His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons and his Jewett Lectures on Modernism (1908). The precise role he played in Modernism has yet to be determined by scholars.

1987-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/35885 2018-11-09T02:28:55Z 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Actions and bodily movements Abstract: In my last contribution to this review I showed why it was necessary to distinguish between particular actions and action-kinds. Failure to make this distinction, I argued, generates misunderstanding. One thesis which can lead to a great deal of perplexity, precisely on account of such failure, is Davidson's claim that actions are bodily movements. We can react to such a claim in different ways. We may say: "This cannot be a claim about all actions," and mention cases where it doesn't apply. I can carry out long sums in my head, stand to attention when told to, allow you to pass, decide to read a book tomorrow, lie perfectly motionless in bed. In all these cases I may be said to be engaged in some kind of action or activity, though my body can remain quite still.

1987-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/35884 2018-11-09T02:28:55Z 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The Solomon legend in Muslim tradition Abstract: The principal two components of Muslim Law are the Qur'an and Tradition. Originally both these sources were transmitted down from father to son orally. It is believed that it was only a century after Muhammad's death that Tradition was set to writing. Nowadays we have free access to Muslim Tradition through Hadith narrations. The actual account of a Prophet's example in deed or word is narrated in small and rather very short stories in which the morale of the "fable" comes up in the end. Every single account of these is called "Hadith" (= new, modern, recent; but also: news, tidings). Each account is preceded by a chain of authorities (isnad) going back to Muhammad himself or to some companion of his as the original narrator who set the ball rolling. Western scholars do not attach much attention to isnad, which for the Muslims it might turn out to be more important than the matn (= the body of the narration), since from it, through a most complicated process, they try to judge whether a given hadith narration is to be accepted as authentic or not.

1987-01-01T00:00:00Z