This article evaluates the portrait of faith development theory and research in James Fowler’s article, “Faith Development at 30.” Questions are raised: Does Fowler’s emphasis on the practical-theological and pastoral focus of faith development contradict its aspiration and disposition for empirical scrutiny? Does Fowler’s principal concern with the reactions from Christian theologians and reli...

Dr Davies discusses faith healing, its clients and the healing process. He suggests that typical healers often have a total faith in themselves, their working methods and their systems of belief, sometimes born out of their own previous suffering. Patients do well if they have faith (which needs to be distinguished from credulity) in their healers and this faith should be nurtured and valued. S...

This paper sheds light on the views of Mulla Sadra about virtue and action. The main question is how he explains the relationship, if any, between virtue and action. Mulla Sadra defines moral virtue as a settled inner disposition by which one acts morally, without need for any reflection or deliberation. This study seeks to explain how, according to Mulla Sadra, a virtue motivates the agent and...

Faith is the desire to believe in something as true, or, if not absolutely true, then at least dependable. Faith seems to have been promoted through evolutionary trends, and, as such, it is a concoction of deep brain processes. Related to faith is the concept of truth. Truth is an ephemeral mental construct. We each have some idea of the meaning of truth. Most of the time, our ideas of truth re...

recent studies demonstrate an overlapping relationship between faith practices of individuals, family functioning, and the corporate faith of congregations. this study reports on the psychometric properties of the Christian faith Practices Scale (CfPS), which was created to empirically measure dykstra’s faith behaviors or “practices.” analysis of a large purposive sample (n=7,403) indicates ini...

human beings as a percipient creature always deals with “understanding” and every action and reaction of him is accompanied with understanding. from early times, this permanent and significant feature of understanding has made the scholars to investigate the structure and methods for achieving a valid understanding. augustine as a christian impressive saint in early middle age and rumi as a mys...

Logical Forms are an exceptionally important linguistic representation for highly demanding semantically related tasks like Question/ Answering and Text Understanding, but their automatic production at runtime is higly error-prone. The use of a tool like XWNet and other similar resources would be beneficial for all the NLP community, but not only. The problem is: Logical Forms are useful as lon...

August 2005 | Volume 2 | Issue 8 | e256 Armed with the power to prescribe, doctors are in a position to fl ood their patients’ bodies with potent medicines at a stroke of their pen—and they have been consistently wooed by the pharmaceutical industry. Doctors in Nepal have started to become targets for the pharmaceutical industry’s promotional activities. The mountainous, landlocked, developing ...

This paper discusses the types, faith attributes, development characteristics, and limitations of Christian social organizations in China. China’s religious service mainly include four types organizations: associations, private non-enterprise units, foundations, venues for activities. From perspective they can be divided into faith-permeated organizations, faith-centered faith-affiliated faith-...

Mentoring through faith-based programs could reach some of the most severely disadvantaged youth, yet efforts could be undermined if proselytizing occurs.