This study used a qualitative descriptive research design to discover the relevance and meaning of spirituality in the lives of 130 urban low-income pregnant women by asking the open-ended question, "How does your faith or spirituality affect your pregnancy if at all?" Forty-seven percent of the women in this study described how spirituality affected their pregnancy positively, 45% described th...

I’ve enjoyed ten years of working in faith-based organizations (FBOs) that fight AIDS, and have seen much to inspire, educate, and horrify me. I’ll base my comments on human rights and love, both of which are biblical principles, even if “human rights” isn’t stated in those terms in the Bible. There is a lot that is compelling about the work of FBOs in AIDS and a lot that, while compatible in t...

THE investigation of the obedience of faith in Romans, commenced some three years ago, has thus far yielded two basic conclusions. (1) The phrase u[pakoh> pi<stewj (Rom 1:5; 16:26) embodies a twin idea: the obedience consisting in faith and the obedience arising out of faith. (2) Faith's obedience, defined in the first instance as perseverance, is the link between present justification by faith...

till I have worked up my patients into a confidence bordering upon certainty, of their probable good effects.” William Osler, the most prominent physician of the 20th Century, remarked: “Faith in us, faith in our drugs and methods, is the great stock in trade of the profession.” In Osler’s iconic textbook (which has guided medical students for over four generations), he said that three factors ...

according to mulla sadra in his famous work, al-asfar , god’s pre-knowledge is a set of epistemic forms which are (1) inseparable from his essence, (2) uncreated, (3) beyond the universe, (4) devoid of real possibility, (5) eternal per se, and (6) extant by his extance. tabatabayi in nihayat al-hilmah believes that the term, “inseparable”, in (1) does not mean “out of essence”; otherwise, (1) w...

Is it good to form positive beliefs about those you have faith in, such as God or a religious community? Doxastic partialists say that is. Some hold is good, from the viewpoint of faith, object your even when evidence favours negative ones. Others try maintain respect for by appealing highly permissive epistemology. I argue against both forms doxastic partiality, on grounds they foster an epist...

This article reflects upon a process of developing an approach to measuring faith-based contributions to social action, examining the problems and challenges involved. A systematic review of research arising in regional faith-based settings in England [Dinham (2007) Priceless, Unmeasureable: Faith-based Community Development in England in the 21st Century, FbRN, London] shows the considerable e...

the pure life (hayat al-tayyibah) is the real life of man which the worldly life with all its vast scope and the otherworldly life with its eternity and importance are the manifestations of this real life; this original and real life is a reality beyond the outward life and can be achieved in this world. the pure life is originated from high levels of human spirit; the faithful man in his subli...