Introduction. Self-fulfilling prophecy is any held belief or expectation that leads to behavior ultimately proves true. Consciousness, belief, ideals, imagination, prejudice, values, whatever term one chooses use, enter essentially and constitutively becoming a reality studied in the social sciences. Imagined becomes real also tends become reality. Objective. The purpose of writing this article...

Does media endorsement for catharsis produce a self-fulfilling or a self-defeating prophecy? In Study 1, participants who read a procatharsis message (claiming that aggressive action is a good way to relax and reduce anger) subsequently expressed a greater desire to hit a punching bag than did participants who read an anticatharsis message. In Study 2, participants read the same messages and th...

Carl Schmitt proposes a political theology founded on the paradigm of secularization. In an attempt to evade secularization, Strauss responds Schmitt’s approach in Philosophy and Law by subtly recovering Maimonidean prophet. By doing so, points prophet as theological–political figure who, ruler, survives secularization Enlightenment. Following trajectory laid out Strauss, this article explores ...

The article provides a critical edition of hitherto unedited post-Byzantine prophecy that may be called the Vaticinium de restitutione Constantinopoleos. text comes down in two recensions, which are contained twelve manuscripts. is supplemented with an English translation and commentary discusses title, date composition, content, main sources, significance text. It argued was originally compose...

Abstract This paper argues that to help adolescents respond Jesus’ call pick up their cross and follow him, the contemporary Pentecostal/Charismatic practice of prophecy/revelatory experience must be reimagined framed within ministry Christ. Without this Christocentric framework these experiences are reduced immediate therapeutic individual flourishing not sufficient redefine adolescent’s past ...