Department of Health Education; Department of Epidemiology, School of Health, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Islamic Republic of Iran (Correspondence to F. Rakhshani: [email protected]). 2Department of Health Education, Tarbiat Moddares University, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. ABSTRACT A qualitative study in Zahedan, Islamic Republic of Iran, used focus group discussio...

While theologians such as Derek Beattie have attempted to uncover the meaning of Gen 2-3, a satisfactory and definitive answer has remained elusive.' In addition to traditional historical-critical methodology (source criticism), scholars have employed many other approaches including religiohistorical, social, psychoanalytical, and feminist approaches, as well as several structuralist, semiotic,...

Advances in medical technology provide regular opportunities to explore theological reflection and magisterial teaching at the border of science and conscience. This article reflects on one such advance involving fertility preservation for cancer patients. The authors argue that ovarian tissue transplantation (OTT) poses intriguing questions for Catholic teaching and theologians about reproduct...

During the last 150 years, evolutionary theory has become the standard theoretical explanation for the origins of life and the center of a new cosmology that other sciences dogmatically assume when developing research methods and interpretations of reality. Christian theology, as a scientific enterprise, is no exception to this rule. Evolution dismisses divine creation as nonscientific myth. To...