/library/oar/handle/123456789/15064 Journal of the Faculty of Theology Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:26:08 GMT 2026-08-10T04:26:08Z :443/library/oar/retrieve/5d55b28b-40d6-4234-b564-4dab8112f30c/ /library/oar/handle/123456789/15064 /library/oar/handle/123456789/138124 Title: Melita Theologica : volume 75 : issue 1 : 2025 Authors: Micallef, Martin; Mangion, Claude Abstract: Table of contents:; 1. Claude Mangion: Editorial Note; 2. Graham Harman: The True Flaw in the Ontological Proof: Anselm, Kant, Husserl; 3. Kevin Hart: The Problem of Evil; 4. Steven Shakespeare: The Logic of Expression in the Philosophy of Religion: Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty; 5. Mark Sultana: On Taking the 鈥楩ive Ways鈥� Seriously as Ways; 6. Robert Farrugia: 鈥淎part From Me You Can Do Nothing鈥�: The Phenomenological Unity Between Affectivity, Truth, and Action; 7. Michael Grech: Giovanni Franzoni鈥檚 Non-Teleological Interpretation of the Kingdom of God and Jean-Fran莽ois Lyotard鈥檚 Critique of Grand Narratives; 8. Keith Pisani: Are Religious and Non-Religious Justifications of Coercive Laws Qualitatively Different?; 9. Fran莽ois Zammit: The Theological Thinking in Lippmann鈥檚 and Hayek鈥檚 Justification of the Market Order; 10. Stefan M. Attard: The Relevance of Biblical Archaeology to Biblical Scholarship; 11. Guidelines For Contributors Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/138124 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/138123 Title: Editorial note [Melita Theologica, 75(1)] Authors: Mangion, Claude Abstract: Philosophical theology is a branch of philosophical investigation that examines questions relating to God and religion by deploying rational argumentation and debate rather than the authority of the Scriptures. This special edition of Melita Theologica attests to the upsurge in interest in questions related to philosophical theology. While this is now taken for granted, it has not always been the case, and for a good number of years, this interest, at least within certain philosophical circles, waned. The various themes covered in this issue reflect the breadth of the field of philosophical theology, with the authors engaging in the classical debates concerning the existence of God and the problem of evil to contemporary existential and political questions. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/138123 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/138122 Title: The true flaw in the ontological proof : Anselm, Kant, Husserl Authors: Harman, Graham Abstract: God is a being than which nothing greater can be conceived. The Fool hath said in his heart that there is no God, and the Fool understands what he is saying. Thus, he thinks that God is only in the understanding but does not exist in reality. But since existing is greater than not existing, a God found in the understanding alone would not be a being than which nothing greater can be conceived, which contradicts the definition of what we are speaking about. Therefore, God is not only in the understanding, but exists. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/138122 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/138119 Title: The problem of evil Authors: Hart, Kevin Abstract: Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as 鈥榯he problem of evil.鈥� There are responses to evil experienced as something awful that is thrown in one鈥檚 face, and these divide into the phenomenologically distinct categories of blame and lament; and there are also arguments from evil, framed in individual ways, not all of which have the same end in view. There is no one 鈥榚vil.鈥� When the Psalmist recoils in the face of wickedness (Ps. 10), or when William Cowper cries out in pain in his 鈥淟ines Written During a Period of Insanity,鈥� or when Paul Celan speaks of the 鈥淪chwarze Milch der Fr眉he鈥� in 鈥淭odesfuge,鈥� each is answering to a separate thing: the persecution of the poor by the unrighteous, a dramatic breakdown of mental health, and the murder of Jews in the Shoah. 鈥楨vil鈥� is a notoriously slippery word: it can denote moral evil (sin as it is known in Judaism and Christianity) or mental and physical evil (suffering); and some philosophers would wish to add to these one or more of metaphysical evil (original imperfection), intellectual evil (error, ignorance and even mistakes) and aesthetic evil (ugliness). [excerpt] Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/138119 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z