theology has always been one of basic and essential topics in the holy quran and imam's quotes. there are many examples – especially in the speeches of imam ali (as) – which is explaining different ways of theology. most important of these ways are the nature, the intellectual-sensorial method and the intellectual-philosophic method. since the most valuable book for constructing man's...

the article presents explanation and analysis of plotinus’ abstraction theology. in this theology he tries to get negative knowledge of the god. the meaning of the negation is neither of pure negation or privation but it is based on abstraction which purifies and abstracts one concept from else to attain the exact and true meaning of it. accordingly, this method of theology is the same as the r...

While the problem of image aesthetics has been well explored, the study of 3D shape aesthetics has focused on specific manually defined features. In this paper, we learn an aesthetics measure for 3D shapes autonomously from raw voxel data and without manually-crafted features by leveraging the strength of deep learning. We collect data from humans on their aesthetics preferences for various 3D ...

Dr Mandy Robbins is Senior Research Fellow within the Religions and Education Research Unit, University of Warwick and a Honorary Research Fellow at the St Mary's Centre. Mandy gained her first degree at the University of Wales, Lampeter in 1992 in Theology and Archaeology, her MPhil in Theology at Trinity College, Carmarthen in 1996, and her PhD in Theology at the University of Wales, Bangor i...

Note: This article is an abridged version of a chapter from Dr. S. Philip Nolte’s PhD dissertation, entitled ‘Pastors as gewonde genesers: Emosionele intelligensie en pastoraat (Pastors as wounded healers: emotional intelligence and pastoral care)’. The dissertation was completed in 2007 under the supervision of Prof. Dr Yolanda Dreyer, Professor in the Department of Practical Theology of the F...

Following conventional wisdom Theology as an academic discipline (taught at Universities) is something which developed only in the Middle Ages, or in a certain sense even as late as the 19 century. The present essay in contrast traces its origins to Classical Antiquity and outlines its development in early Christianity, especially with a view to institutions of higher education that existed in ...

Science and Faith in Dialogue presents a cogent, compelling case for concordance between science theism. The term theism refers, this book, to the belief God's existence. Within theology, is often used convey range of presuppositions about nature attributes God. Based on scientific natural theological perspectives, two pillars theology are revisited: Cosmological Argument from Design. book argu...

Science and Faith in Dialogue presents a cogent, compelling case for concordance between science theism. The term theism refers, this book, to the belief God's existence. Within theology, is often used convey range of presuppositions about nature attributes God. Based on scientific natural theological perspectives, two pillars theology are revisited: Cosmological Argument from Design. book argu...

Following the Second Vatican Council, the predominant trend in Catholic moral theology has been decidedly antagonistic toward the tradition that dominated moral theology before the Council, namely the use and formulation of ecclesiastically-approved “manuals” or “handbooks” of moral theology, the contents of which chiefly involved general precepts of morally good and bad behavior as well as the...