By Januarius Asongu, PhD
Saint Monica University, Buea, Cameroon
I — The Civilization That Relearned How to Know
Europe occupies a paradoxical position in global civilizational...
I — The Question That Gave Birth to the Theory
Every philosophical theory begins with a question that refuses to...
I — The Possibility of Renewal After Epistemic Fracture
Civilizations rarely disappear suddenly. Even when...
I — The Destruction of Knowledge as Civilizational Violence
Civilizations do not decline merely because they lose wars, suffer economic collapse, or...
I — The Problem Civilizational Theory Has Never Solved
Civilizations rise. Civilizations flourish. Civilizations decline.
This pattern is universally...
By Januarius Asongu
I — Religion as an Epistemic Institution
Civilizations do not arise solely through material organization or technological capability. They emerge first...
I — The Concept of Epistemic Sovereignty
Chapter 1 established that civilizations survive only insofar as they preserve reliable mediation between belief...
I — Civilization and the Problem of Truth
Human civilizations have traditionally been interpreted through their visible achievements: political...
I. The Oldest Question
One of the oldest questions in human reflection concerns the rise and fall of civilizations. Across centuries, historians,...
By Januarius Jingwa (JJ) Asongu, PhD
Abstract
This article argues that Synthetic Theological Realism (STR), a recently completed manuscript, provides the systematic and...
By George Chrysostom Nchumbonga Lekelefac
Twentieth-century Christian theology was shaped decisively by the tension between Christian realism, exemplified by Reinhold...
By Januarius J. Asongu, PhD
Contemporary research methodology remains fragmented across quantitative, qualitative, critical, and pragmatic paradigms. While methodological...
I. Theology After FragmentationThe theological project developed throughout this volume began from a diagnosis increasingly recognized across...
I — The End of Theological Certainty and the Beginning of Reconstruction
The contemporary theological situation may be described as one of profound...
I — The Liberation Question After Realism
The preceding chapters established the ontological, methodological, and epistemological foundations of...
I — The Problem of the Bridge
The preceding chapter argued that theological realism requires development because truth exceeds human comprehension. Yet...
I — The Temptation of Theological Stagnation
The crisis confronting contemporary theology is not merely fragmentation, skepticism, or cultural pluralism....
I — The Emergence of the Critical Moment
The recovery of synthesis as the governing structure of theological reasoning inevitably introduces a further...
I — Theology as Synthetic Intelligence
The recovery of theological realism achieved in the previous chapter raises an unavoidable methodological...
I — The Return to Reality
The crisis diagnosed in the preceding chapter ultimately reduces to a single philosophical question: Is reality prior to...