https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/37860 2026-04-04T21:02:24Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/37926 Title: Book reviews [Melita Theologica, 47(1)] Abstract: Books reviewed: 1/ Johannes P. Louw (ed.) Meaningful Translation. Its Implications for the Reader (UBS Monograph Series 5; Reading 1991) vii. 3 pp. ISBN: 0-8267- 04-55-7 -- 2/ Carlo Buzzetti, 4x1 Un Unico Brano Biblico e Vari 'Fare'. Guida pratica di ermeneutica e pastorale biblica (Edizioni Paoline; Milano 1994) 7-287 pp. 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/37925 Title: Announcing the gospel in Europe : facing the challenges of cultural changes and religious and ethnic divisions Abstract: "The evangelization of the European continent" is a phrase first used by John Paul H at the IVth symposium of European bishops in Rome in 1979. He had just chaired the plenary assembly of the Latin American Bishops' Council in Puebla. The theme of this assembly was "the evangelization of Latin America, today and tomorrow." When John Paul 11 addressed the CCEE, which is the European equivalent of the CELAM, although in a far less structured manner - it was natural that he drew the bishops' attention to the "evangelization of the European continent." This relaunching was to turn out to be one of the great design's of his pontificate. Afterwards, John Paul H also spoke of the new evangelization, or even of re-evangelization. In these words, especially in the term "re- evangelization", a pejorative judgement of the recent style of the evangelization of the Catholic Church, or even of other Churches, was sometimes perceived. In fact, the word re-evangelization" is very rarely used by John Paul H, who essentially envisages a "new quality of evangelization", new in its capacity to reformulate the message of salvation for our contemporaries. 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/37924 Title: D'Herbigny's Soloviev : the lures of universal hermeneutics Abstract: A discussion of Michel d 'Herbigny ,SI's interpretation of Vladimir Soloviev (1853- 1900) may seem trite and even inopportune. For one thing, it may be argued, d'Herbigny is a second-rate, if not third-rate, figure with a tragic finale who has never been really rehabilitated. It may thus not be quite so clear, after all, what he stands for, not to say anything of the fact that his perspective itself, as it may be recovered from.his writings, is questionable and has been challenged on several important counts. All in all, there seem to be more valid viewpoints than d'Herbigny's which have a claim on our attention. Besides, his interpretation has been laid to rest and, in the long run, certainly has found no great favour among critics. 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/37923 Title: Qur'anic exegesis : Muhammad & the Jinn Abstract: Readers of Melita Teologica may now be familiar with my articles treating the spiritual beings - non-human, non-angelic - which the Qur'an calls jinn. This time we shall treat two main problems which concern Muhammad directly, the prophethood of whom had at a point in history to be defended against accusations of jinnf possession. The Qur'an presents Muhammad not only as "the seal of the prophets" (Khlitam al-anbiya') i.e. the last prophet in a long series and the one who sets the divine message on a definitive basis; but it also pin-points him as the universal prophet, i.e. the one whom the Most High has sent to all peoples in any future time since the foundation of Islam. His universality extends to all beings even to jinn. This brings us to the enunciation of the two main problems forming our topic: (a) Was the Prophet of Islam possessed by jinn? This question amounts to the quest whether Muhammad was merely an inspired poet, or an authentic Prophet of God upon whom revelation came down. (b) Muhammad's special mission to the jinn. This includes the quest whether any special prophet, besides Muhammad, was ever sent to the jinn, and whether among the jinn there exist any faithful Muslims. It should be made clear from the very beginning that here we shall take into account only what is narrated in the Qur'anic text; other elements on this subject which have their origin in Muslim tradition will be exposed in a future study. 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z