https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/37256 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:43:23 GMT 2026-04-04T11:43:23Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/37413 Title: Book reviews [Melita Theologica, 46(1)] Abstract: Books reviewed: Siegfried Meurer (ed), The Apocrypha in Ecumenical Perspective (United Bible Societies; ReadinglNew York 1991) XIII. 224 pp. Sun, 01 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/37413 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/37412 Title: Managerial psychology and religious leadership Abstract: The process of interdisciplinary integration and application of psychology and religion has been operating for various branches in psychology: clinical, developmental, educational, social, and personality. These areas have all been explored in view of relating them to corresponding areas in theology. One branch of psychology, however, that has so far been neglected in this regard is the relatively young but rapidly expanding science of industrial/organizational psychology. Only recently attempts have been made to explore the new findings in organizational psychology and relate them to some aspects of religious behaviour. This reflection prompted me to embark on the challenging and interesting endeavour of examining an area of interest common to both disciplines. One such general area consists in the integration of organizational models into religious settings. How, and to what extent, I asked myself, could models derived from organizational psychology be adequately employed in religious institutions? More specifically: How, and to what extent, could principles and processes derived from managerial psychology be properly applied to religious leadership today? Sun, 01 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/37412 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/37411 Title: The Old Testament and the new and eternal covenant Abstract: One of the basic premises of contemporary Catholic Scripture scholarship is that the Old Testament is the necessary background for understanding the Testament we Christians call New. The present study will focus on the New and Eternal Covenant, and will try to show that this Covenant cannot be adequately understood except in the light of the Old Testament. Sun, 01 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/37411 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/37336 Title: Mediterranean meeting on bioethics Abstract: Bioethics is fundamentally concerned with the problem of the quality of life. Promoting it involves first of all the protection of the quality of life which already exists. Every effort must be done nationally and in international fora to promote an ever better quality of life in the conditions of life of humanity as a whole and of all individual persons. Bioethics is not only concerned with medical problems. Its horizons include all other problems connected with human and non-human life. In fact it is only within the understanding of this wider context of life in general that bioethics can tackle any problem which it comes across and seeks to understand. The "Istituto Siciliano di Bioetica" has organised several Mediterranean Meetings on various topics of bioethics. These meetings are intended to promote intercultural dialogue between the peoples of the different cultures and religions who inhabit the regions around the Mediterranean Sea, to help in the search for a bioethics which would be common to these different countries. They are also intended as opportunities for the search of that ethical truth that goes beyond the differences in cultural religious backgrounds which the participants represent. This search for truth must be done together since it lies beyond the points of views and judgements of any participant. These intercultural exchanges on the subject of life are very important for another reason: to sensitize, more and more, each culture represented (Western, Islamic, Balcan, Hebrew, Greek, Latin) to the value of life. Sun, 01 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMT https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/37336 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z