https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28236 Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:10:39 GMT 2026-04-08T14:10:39Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28427 Title: Melita Theologica : volume 28 : issue 1-2 Abstract: 1/ GRIMA, G. - Christ and conversion : H. Richard Niebuhr's thought between 1933 and 1937 -- 2/ SERRACINO-INGLOTT, P. - The necessary bilingualism of Christians -- 3/ COLLINS, R. F. - 'He came to dwell among us' -- 4/ Book reviews. Thu, 01 Jan 1976 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28427 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28419 Title: 'He came to dwell among us' Abstract: There was a time when the most popular exegesis of Jn 1:14 placed considerable emphasis upon the etymology of the verb skenoun, 'to dwell in a tent'. The allusion to nomadic life contained in the term made it a natural and effective symbol of the temporary presence of the enfleshed Word among His own. Many of the older commentaries explicated the verse in this way. So, too, do some of the more recent commentaries, as well as the dictionary of Arndt-Gingrich. Thu, 01 Jan 1976 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28419 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28418 Title: The necessary bilingualism of Christians Abstract: Although philosophers and other intellectuals have always reflected on politics, by which I mean the power-relations existing in all human societies, the need for explicit mass political education was only felt in special circumstances. The major examples of these special circumstances that come to mind are two. In the first place, the need to impart a general political education, which was called 'civics', was felt in countries which received a large number of emigrants from other countries with different political system, e.g. in the United States of America, with its system of liberal capitalism, the political education of new corners from the authoritarian agrarian societies of Czarist Russia or Bourbon Sicily, was felt to be a necessity. Thu, 01 Jan 1976 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28418 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28417 Title: Christ and conversion : H. Richard Niebuhr's thought between 1933 and 1937 Abstract: Helmut Richard Niebuhr is generally regarded as one of the most influential contemporary Protestant theologian in America. Partly because he wrote relatively little and partly because he shunned publicity, he did not succeed in attaining the stature of people like Karl Barth, Rudolph Bultmann, Emil Brunner in Europe and his brother, Reinhold Niebuhr, in America. Nevertheless, in his published writings and, especially, in his lectures at Yale Divinity School, where he taught from 1931 until his death in 1962, he showed that he could criticize in a strong yet pertinent way the thought of his contemporaries. Besides, he managed to develop original insights from which the present generation of American theologians are drawing fruitful inspiration. Thu, 01 Jan 1976 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28417 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z