Given the increasing numbers of U.S. lives lost to suicide, it is imperative identify factors that can help protect against suicide. While regular religious service attendance has been found be protective faith communities have taboos suicide which may associated with stigma. Nine Christian leaders and congregants one moral psychologist completed interviews on stigma in communities. Themes emer...

O artigo visa oferecer uma análise do capítulo onze de Hebreus e a demonstração fé necessária à vida cristã dos chamados heróis da fé, cristãos destinatários carta discípulos Cristo atualidade. Para tal proposta, é utilizado o caminho teórico-metodológico pesquisa bibliográfica, que recorre aos materiais já elaborados sistematizados, como livros artigos científicos. texto foi escrito há milhare...

Christianity, and the Christian faith, seems to be losing when confronted with scientific reason certainty. Christianity needs new arguments for epistemological seriousness of its faith. Those could found in Joseph Ratzinger’s writings, providing insights into fundamental theology. The subject faith as an element that is crucial him (and Christianity) pervades all his works. This paper aims at ...

Quite surprisingly, historians know little about Hippocrates, the physician often referred to as "the father of medicine". However, we do know that he was a strong advocate of the use of medicinal plants to prevent and cure diseases. He recorded between three hundred and four hundred plant remedies in his writing and during the middle ages herbal remedies were passed down from generation to gen...

Mission Hospital, and he was privileged to see that institution extending a very widespread and deep influence in Kashmir, not only by the high quality of the medical and surgical relief afforded to hundreds of thousands, but also by its continuous witness to the high ideals of the Christian Faith. How deep that influence has been, was revealed by the very profound mourning and the universal te...

What is meant by the “Canon of the Old Testament”? The word, “canon” itself is derived from the Greek, and in that language originally meant a staff or straight rod. In pre-Christian Greek it also bore the connotation “rule,” or “standard,” and in this sense also is used in the New Testament (cf. II Cor. 10:13, 15, 16; Gal. 6:16). Clement of Rome uses it of a rule possessing authority (I:7:2) a...

Abstract In light of Jacques Derrida's writings on death and mourning, it may seem that the Christian teaching dead will be raised is a betrayal others, failure to take up one's responsibility testify those who have died. conversation with Emmanuel Falque's work finitude, Martin Heidegger's reading 1 Thessalonians, Søren Kierkegaard's Abraham, I respond in two movements this objection faith God...