Jewish tradition understands a miracle as a wonder that manifests God’s beneficent power. A miracle (nes in Hebrew) could be supernatural, but it need not be. While God has the ability to act in a manner that goes against the “orders of creation” (sidrei breishit) that He has established, the regularity of this order itself wondrously manifests God’s beneficent power. A central goal of Judaism ...

There is evidence that an inclination towards spirituality could be genetic ( Hamer 2004 ). The existence of a god cannot be proven. We arrive at belief in God either through faith or through an interior experience, such as a mystical state.

A Christian liberal arts education seeks to explore several fundamental questions: What does it mean to be human? For what purpose did God create us? How do we develop to our full human potential? What sets us free, liberates us, to be all that God intends us to be? In Genesis, we learn that to be human is to be created in the image of God; to bear the image of God. To be human is to rule over ...

Philosophers and theologians have advanced a variety of arguments for God’s existence. Th e arguments vary along a number of dimensions. Some are a priori; some are a posteriori. Some depend on a particular defi nition of God; others are more general. But they have features in common. Th ey are independent of any particular religious tradition, depending on nothing more than a generally classic...

Is the Christian doctrine of the Trinity consistent with a very strong version of the thesis of divine simplicity? Yes, so long as the simple divine nature is a relational nature, a nature that could be characterized in terms of such relations as knowing and loving. This divine nature functions simultaneously as agent, patient, and action: as knower, known and knowledge, and lover, beloved, and...

Im IT-Umfeld scheitern mehr als 60% der angegangenen Projekte. Und dies, obwohl es stets weiterentwickelte Vorgehensmodelle für Projektmanagement gibt und auch die Anzahl von zertifizierten Projektmanagern seit 2003 deutlich steigt. Haben Vorgehensmodelle zu viele „Nebenwirkungen“? Wäre der Einsatz von mehr „gesundem Menschenverstand“ anstelle vorgefertigter Prozesse erfolgversprechender? Der A...

Service-orientierte Architekturen (SOA) gewinnen in Unternehmen zunehmend an Bedeutung. Insbesondere die lose Kopplung von Services verspricht mehr Flexibilität. Durch die Vielzahl an Services und Prozessen in unterschiedlichen Varianten sowie deren gleichzeitige Verwendung durch ServiceNutzer, entstehen hohe Kosten für Betrieb und Wartung. Services, die nicht mehr genutzt werden, sollten desha...

Mormons claim that God the Father has a “body of flesh and bones.” Nowhere is this statement made in the Bible, so they support this idea through the statement that God created man in His own image, which requires that God look like a man. However, there are many problems with this interpretation. First, the Bible says that God created both males and females in His image. Unless God were a herm...

T HE idea that God is One, as expressed, for example, in the Shema Yisrael: "Hear 0 Israel, the Lord thy God, the Lord is One," comes in part to this: there is but one God (if there's any at all). But it also comes to this: God is a unity, not a "heap." Insofar, God's oneness doesn't differ from the oneness of, say, legs attached to my right side; there's just one, and it's a unity, not a "heap...