Vol. 73, no. 1 (2023)

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The godless and inhumane as catalysts for change : Zosima?s decaying corpse and Alyosha Karamazov?s path to authentic faith in The Brothers Karamazov

Glen Attard

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‘Walk the unchristian ways of Christendom?’: the tragedy of Christianity in Wilfred Owen?s poetry

Warren James Ebejer

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Rainaldus Bishop of Malta : December 1121

Stanley Fiorini

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Forensic evaluation of child sexual abuse

Edward Xuereb

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The reception of the Church in Malta to the Second Vatican Council

Sergio Grech

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Liturgia ed evangelizzazione

Goffredo Boselli

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[Book review] Jean Boulier ? I was a read priest - memories and testimonials

Dean Richards

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Vol. 73, no. 2 (2023)

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Editorial note : the Church in Malta in 2030 : re-imaging the pastoral

Carl-Mario Sultana

 

The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic : religion and spirituality in these challenging times

Paul Galea; Adrian Gellel; Carl-Mario Sultana; Kevin Schembri

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The pastoral as polysemic : perspectives of priests in Malta

Matthew Pulis; Luke J. Buhagiar; Nadia Delicata; Jean Claude Attard; Jimmy Bonnici; Andre Zaffarese

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Towards an eco-Church in Malta : the Church as a protagonist in caring for our common home

Mark Joseph Zammit

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The reassembling Church : paradigms from Nehemiah?Ezra for the local Church in Malta

Hector Scerri

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Formation towards transformation : receiving the spirit of the liturgy

Dorianne Buttigieg

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[Book review] L-ewwel tliet kotba ta' l-istqarrijiet ta' Santu Wistin

Hector Scerri

 

 

Vol. 73, no. 1 (2023)

 

A paradigm shift in Johannine studies

Martin Micallef

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Dingli / Tartarni and the Medieval Parish of Santa Domenica

Stanley Fiorini

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Forsaking even one?s mother-in-law redaction critical analysis of Luke 5 : 1-11

Sinclair Bugeja

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Secularisation and partisan dealignment : two sides of the same coin?

Mary Grace Vella

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Angels as observers of human affairs : a study of angels in Paul?s Epistles

Kay Buttigieg

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Builder of bridges : academic oration in honour of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I

Kevin Schembri

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Acceptance speech for the award of doctor of philosophy (Honoris Causa) by the University of Malta

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I

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[Book review] Lino Bianco : The ring metaphor and the spirit of sofia and other essays

Hector Scerri

 

 Vol. 72, no. 2 (2022)

 

Editorial note : ?In the World? but not ?of the World? ( John 17:14-16) : the Christian calling to embrace and transform the world

Paul Sciberras

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Hospitality in the Johannine Letters

Johannes Beutler

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Contemporary political engagement - prophetic and Pauline perspectives

Stefan M. Attard; Paul Sciberras

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?The World? in the Gospel of John : a message through a prism

Martin Micallef

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The original ideal of fuga mundi and its application to female monastic life in seventeenth-century Malta

Nicholas Joseph Doublet; Jonathan Farrugia

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Above all things let God be loved the most : Fran‡oise d?Amboise; Duchess; Carmelite nun; and witness of the devout life

Glen Attard; Charl¢ Camilleri

 

 

Vol. 72, no. 1 (2022)

 

Reading Moltmann?s The Trinity and the Kingdom of God in an Ethical Key

Oleh Melnychenko

Lessons on the Relationship between Tradition and Culture in the light of Dei Verbum and Gaudium et spes

Mark Joseph Zammit

In Defence of ?Incarnational Deism:? The Rejection of Providence and Teleology

David Brown

Reinterpreting the Influence of Clement of Alexandria on the thinking of Eusebius of Caesarea

Gligan Ciprian Dimitrie Gabriel

Augustinian Influence on Maltese Theatre

Tyrone Grima

Oration: Prof. Serafin M. Zarb O.P. (1899-1976) and the History of the Formation of the Canon of Sacred Scripture according to St Augustine

Joseph Agius

Oration in Honour of His Eminence Cardinal Mario Grech

John Anthony Berry

 

 

Vol. 71, no. 2 (2021)

 

Editorial note [Melita Theologica; 71(2)]

Raymond Zammit

The environmental concerns of the Maltese Church

Raymond Zammit;ÿCarlo Calleja

Our common home belongs to all generations

Emmanuel Agius

Verso un?eco-teologia integrale; alla luce di Laudato si? : aspetti epistemologici e possibili implicazioni disciplinari

Pasquale Giustiniani

The Christological ecology of Joseph Ratzinger

Claudette Baluci; John Anthony Berry

Climate change in the light of integral ecology

Eduardo Agosta Scarel

?There is only a single life in all living things? : medieval ecological contemplation in John of Hildesheim?s Speculum fontis vitae

Glen Attard; Charl¢ Camilleri

Natural environment : the Biblical perspective

Carmelo Sant

 

 

Vol. 71, no. 1 (2021)

 

Marriage as sacrament : baptism or the practice of faith of the spouses?

Emmanuel Agius

Overturning laments : an assessment of the so-called prophetic perfect formulations in the Psalms?

Stefan M. Attard

Newman?s theology of faith : a guiding light in a secular age

David Torpiano

A spiritual artificial general intelligence?

Matthew Pulis; Charl¢ Camilleri;ÿTero Massa

Maria Maddalena de? Pazzi?s parable of the incarnation and Salvific redemption : ?The Humanifed Word;? ?the Dry Bleeded Lamb? and ?the Created Trinity?

Charl¢ Camilleri

Mathematics and friendship : Pavel Florensky?s interdisciplinary thought

Glen Attard

Book review : Crux invicta: Il-Kur?ifiss Mirakulu? U l-Kapu??ini f ?G?awdex

Stanley Fiorini

Book review : Against the Academics: St Augustine?s Cassiciacum dialogues; Vol. 1

Nicholas Paxton

 

 

Vol. 70, no. 2 (2020)

 

Quccija; Convivium; Zerda : Maltese customs originating from religious Greek tradition

Stanley Fiorini

Education for the Faith in Malta: A Parish and School Enterprise

Sultana Carl

An evaluation of the episcopate of archbishop Mauro Caruana through his pastoral letters (1915-1943)

Nicholas Joseph Doublet

Il prologo del libro dell?Apocalisse di Giovanni (1:1-3) : studio esegetico-teologico

Peter Ellul

Footnotes and finitude

Lara Zammit

Book review : A Politics of Peace: The Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs During the Pontificate of Benedict XV (1914-1922)

Simon Mercieca

 

 

Vol. 70, no. 1 (2020)

 

Editorial note : two magnetic personalities bridging the twentieth and the twenty?first centuries

Hector Scerri

"In our image; our likeness" : Genesis; John Paul II and Chiara Lubich

Paul Sciberras

The prophetic insight of Chiara Lubich : the word that is love

Judith Povilus

Pope John Paul II and Chiara Lubich : each in their own way highlighting the Church?s Marian profile

Brendan Leahy

Pope John Paul II and his Ecumenical legacy

Annemarie C. Mayer

John Paul II and Chiara Lubich : converging development of the dynamic principles of Ecumenism in the wake of Vatican II

Piero Coda

Some reflections on the Ecumenical movement : 25 years after John Paul II?s encyclical letter Ut unum sint

Jorge Scampini

John Paul II and Christian-Muslim relations

Joseph Ellul