Horrendous evil describes the anthropological view of excessive evils which devastate and dehumanise both victim and perpetrator, casting doubt as to whether life is worth living. Divine exultation and divine agony are viewed from the perspective of divinity, whose initial creation brought God pleasure and its fall an offence so deep that, though he considered its total destruction, God instead...

The study of mission history is seldom reported through imaginative literature, drama in particular, and dreams as a technique to justify conversion into Christianity. This article based on literary work, Kgašane, named after Molobedu kinsman who credited with sowing the seeds Christianity Bolobedu establishment Medingen Mission station Berlin Missionary Society. examines how writer, Makwala, u...

In the last chapter of volume The Chronicles Narnia, protagonists arrive in Aslan’s country, Narnia’s equivalent Heaven, or at least its outskirts. C.S. Lewis’s portrayal this imaginary world is course inspired by Bible, and previous literary depictions such as Bunyan’s Celestial City Pilgrim’s Progress Dante’s Paradiso Divine Comedy, but it also has a unique quality. Although on surface Lewis ...

The cognitive science of religion (CSR) indicates that belief in supernatural agents, or “gods”, is underpinned by maturationally natural biases and systems (Natural Religion). It unclear, however, whether theism natural. Does the god concept our give rise to approximate theism? In other words, Natural Religion “theism-tracking”? As Christian theologians have different views what God like, we a...

This paper considers prior-independent mechanism design, namely identifying a single mechanism that has near optimal performance on every prior distribution. We show that mechanisms with truthtelling equilibria, a.k.a., revelation mechanisms, do not always give optimal priorindependent mechanisms and we define the revelation gap to quantify the non-optimality of revelation mechanisms. This stud...

the relationship between objective realities of the time of revelation and impressionability or non- impressionability of revelation from that realities are of the important issues that raised many doubts and debates in recent century. undoubtedly, accepting the impressionability of the holy quran from the realities of that time could be considered as one of the fundamentals of the historicity ...

We examined experiencing divine love as an indicator of affective spiritual growth in a prospective cohort of 200 patients surviving cardiac surgery. These patients previously completed two-wave preoperative interviews when standardized cardiac surgery data were also collected. The information included left ventricular ejection fraction, New York Heart Association Classification, baseline healt...