AIDS: prophecy and present reality.

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in e-Negotiations: Myth or Reality?

The Continuation of New Testament Prophecy and a Closed Canon: A Critique of Wayne Grudem’s Two Levels of New Testament Prophecy

A key sticking point dividing fundamentalists and conservative evangelicals is the question regarding the cessation versus the continuation of New Testament prophecy. Fundamentalists have traditionally argued for the present cessation of New Testament prophecy, 1 whereas a growing number of conservative evangelicals argue for its present continuation. 2 At the heart of the debate are the issues...

Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Mechanisms, Power, and Links to Social Problems

A core theme of social psychology is that perceivers can shape targets’ future behaviors through self-fulfilling prophecies. Self-fulfilling prophecies occur when perceivers’ false beliefs about targets initiate a sequence of events that ultimately cause targets to exhibit expectancy-consistent behaviors, thereby causing perceivers’ initially false beliefs to become true. This article reviews t...

Social Constructs and Disease: Implications for a Controlled Vocabulary for HIV/AIDS

THEBODY OF KNOWLEDGE AssocIArm with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) represents complexity not present in any other disease. HIV infection is not only an extremely complicated disease process, but it also transcends the boundaries of biomedicine. Various domains shape the construction of HIV/AIDS as chronic disease with the societal const...

Commentary of Covenant in the Holy Verse: When Allah Made (His) Covenant with the Prophets

Waiting for a savior and a better future has been known as a true and respectable idea of revealed religions. However, little considerable study has been performed on the real meaning of waiting as a Divine promise in the prophets and their followers` minds and lives. On the studies in the field, the problem of waiting as a continuous reality in the history of prophecy may be searched in the ve...