Safety is a fundamental concern in modern society, and security is a precondition for safety. Ensuring safety and security of complex integrated systems requires a coordinated approach that involve different stakeholder groups...
Reincarnation has never been part of mainstream Christian theology. This is true in spite of periodic speculations by Christian theologians, and in spite of the fact that reincarnation believers sometimes wrongly impute belief...
Reincarnation has never been part of mainstream Christian theology. This is true in spite of periodic speculations by Christian theologians, and in spite of the fact that reincarnation believers sometimes wrongly impute belief...
For nearly five decades now, Lynn White Jr.’s influential article “The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis”1 has been pointed to as a part of the bedrock of Christian discourse on the environment. Of course, an...
For nearly five decades now, Lynn White Jr.’s influential article “The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis”1 has been pointed to as a part of the bedrock of Christian discourse on the environment. Of course, an...
One should always be careful about giving advice: whether, when, how and what. This is especially the case if the advice is unsolicited. “Now, let me give you some advice”, is generally an unpropitious opening to a conversation....
While religious beliefs are typically studied using questionnaires, there are no standardized tools available for cognitive psychology and neuroscience studies of religious cognition. Here we present the first such tool-the...
Currently, there exists relatively scant sociological research on the identities of first‐year UK university students, and specifically those holding a strong Christian identity. Employing a symbolic interactionist framework...
AbstractIn a comparative study of karma theodicy and atonement theodicy, as developed by some Hindu and Christian theologians, this article argues that they present...
St. Francis of Assisi’s dramatic meeting with the Sultan Malek el-Kamel in Damietta, Egypt, during the Fifth Crusade (1213–1221) has become an important part of the contemporary context for Muslim–Christian relations, Middle...
St. Francis of Assisi’s dramatic meeting with the Sultan Malek el-Kamel in Damietta, Egypt, during the Fifth Crusade (1213–1221) has become an important part of the contemporary context for Muslim–Christian relations, Middle...
The historian and socialist R.H. Tawney’s Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926) was one of the most influential works of non-fiction to be written in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century. Fusing...
"The Master Narrative of Christianity" as outlined by Karen King states that Jesus Christ passed down the one true gospel to his apostles who then spread it throughout the world among a sea of dissension. But exactly which texts...
Currently, there exists relatively scant sociological research on the identities of first‐year UK university students, and specifically those holding a strong Christian identity. Employing a symbolic interactionist framework...
This article studies the Christian movement that occurred amongst the Luba of Katanga, Belgian Congo, from about 1915 to 1950, paying particular attention to how it was received by different social categories and mediated by...
What does it mean to be a "Christian nation," a nation which is blessed by God above other nations? This moniker of divinity and chosen-ness has been in some way attached to the American project since its conception, though many...
If one day Muslim Americans will be forced to register their identities, then that is the day this proud Jew will register as a Muslim. (Khomami and Sidahmed 2016Khomami, Nadia, and Mazin Sidahmed. 2016. “Jonathan Greenblatt...
Background & Purpose: Many victims of sexual assault are rising to advocate for sexual assault prevention on college campuses, including Christian college campuses. Some reports indicate that Christian campuses shy away from the...
If one day Muslim Americans will be forced to register their identities, then that is the day this proud Jew will register as a Muslim. (Khomami and Sidahmed 2016Khomami, Nadia, and Mazin Sidahmed. 2016. “Jonathan Greenblatt...
This essay argues that Aquinas's position regarding the killing of innocent people differs significantly from other representatives of the Christian just war tradition. While his predecessors, notably Augustine, as well as his...
An infinite matroid is graphic if all of its finite minors are graphic
and the intersection of any circuit with any cocircuit is finite. We
show that a matroid is graphic if and only if it can be represented by a
graph-like...
Customary practices and laws, relating to food and fasting, have been traced back to Biblical and Quranic times. Fasting throughout religious history has often been a response to the religious and supernatural realm and worldly...
OF THE TWO DOMINICANS William Peraldus (ca.
1200-1271) and Thomas Aquinas (1225-74),
Peraldus is now barely known whereas Aquinas,
canonized and a doctor of the Church, is one of the most
persistent influences on Catholic...
Cristian A. Herter, M.D. The Common Bacterial Infections of the Digestive Tract and the Intoxications Arising Therefrom
Lecture delivered November 3rd, 1906