Aleksandar S. Santrac
Aleksandar S. Santrac, DPhil, is Associate Professor of Religion, Ethics & Philosophy, University of the Southern Caribbean
Articles by Aleksandar S. Santrac
Transethics of Jesus and Christian morals: Is Christian ethics an oxymoron?
March 2016
Is Christian morality (ethics) an oxymoron? Does Christian religion reflect and endorse a certain type of morality? Or are Christian beliefs and practices so fundamentally different from any category of moral thinking and praxis that they transcend any…
Spiritual strength: What happens when spiritual leaders and spiritual people work together?
February 2011
It is easy to find an army of a thousand, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.” So says a Chinese proverb. To find a genuine spiritual leader in the Christian church—someone with a vision and integrity—is not always easy. Leaders…
Church and culture: New challenges and a proposal to shape the culture in which we live
March 2010
Editor’s note: While the writer specifically deals with the Seventh-day Adventist Church and its culture, other readers may find it challenging to ask themselves, How is my church shaping the culture in which we live?
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Why do You permit this, oh Lord? The problem of evil and pastoral practice
December 2008
Several years ago, I went through a time of intense suffering. My sister who was only 25 years old was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She was not a Christian believer at the time she was diagnosed, but she was living…
Understanding and relating to the new world view
June 2008
In his work City as Landscape: A Post- Postmodern View of Design and Planning,1 Tom Turner stresses that “The modernist age, of ‘one way, one truth, one city’ is dead and gone. The postmodernist…