OBJECTIVE To explore existential meaning-making in an ethnic-majority subgroup with mental ill health and to increase knowledge about the importance of gaining access to such information in mental healthcare. DESIGN Qualitative study using in-depth interviews and systematic text condensation analysis. PARTICIPANTS 17 devote Christians with an ethnic-Swedish background, 12 women and 5 men, 3...

the fundamental belief in sikhism is that god exists not merely as an idea or concept, but as a real entity. god is indescribable, yet knowable and perceivable to anyone who is prepared to dedicate the time and energy to become perceptive to his persona. the gurus never spoke about proofs of the existence of god. for them, he is too real, and something obvious does not require any logical proof...

Some theists maintain that they need not answer the threat posed to theistic belief by natural evil; they have reason enough to believe that God exists and it renders impotent any threat that natural evil poses to theism. Explicating how God and natural evil co-exist is not necessary since they already know both exist. I will argue that, even granting theists the knowledge they claim, this does...

A number of chromogens have been proposed in the past. In the glucose oxidase “GOD-Perid”1 method, the subject of study in this paper, ABTS is used as the chromogen (6). Unfortunately, the glucose oxmdase methods are not free of interference from other substances, uric acid being one. Here, I examine each reaction step of the GOD-Perid method, discuss possible mechanisms of interference by uric...

C LAR ITAS | Journal of Dialogue & Culture | Vol. 5, No. 1 (March 2016) Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture, Vol. 5, No. 1 (March 2016) 12–26 © 2016 Trinitarian life of God, by being inserted into the Son’s relationship with the Father. This study appears even more appropriate when we consider that the principal concern of the Letter to the Ephesians is the identity of the church and its ...

Immutable vectors are a convenient data structure for functional programming and part of the standard library of modern languages like Clojure and Scala. The common implementation is based on wide trees with a fixed number of children per node, which allows fast indexed lookup and update operations. In this paper we extend the vector data type with a new underlying data structure, Relaxed Radix...

This article publishes for the first time a Sahidic parchment leaf containing portions of Gal 1.4–9. Its main interest lies in omission possessive 1.4d, which reads ‘God Father’ as opposed to mainstream our Father’. Two possible explanations are proposed: scribal error or translational assimilation, involving more complex question relationship between Coptic and Greek versions. Beyond biblical ...

The argument from contingency for the existence of God is best understood as a request for an explanation of the total sequence of causes and effects in the universe (‘History’ for short). Many puzzles about how there could be such an explanation arise from the assumption that God is being introduced as one more cause prepended to the sequence of causes that (allegedly) needed explaining. In re...