Transmission of values and religious concepts to children is one of the most important issues in the third millennium and it has drawn varied and different views among experts and scholars in the world. Research specialized in religious literature for children and adolescents create new capacities in the presentation of religious concepts to the group. Plans have been considered to transfer val...

Recently Richard Swinburne has argued that the well-known Free Will Defense can provide an explanation of God's permitting moral evil (i.e., evil intentionally brought about by human agents) only if there is also natural evil (i.e., evil not intentionally brought about by human agents). 1 Ultimately his argument aims to show that there must be natural evil if we are to have the knowledge we nee...

Following a conjecture of P. Erdos, we show that if 9 is a family of k-subsets of an n-set no two of which intersect in exactly I elements then for k 2 21+ 2 and n sufficiently large IF:/ < (;:‘,I:) with equality holding if and only if 9 consists of all the k-sets containing a fixed (I+ I)-set. In general we show 19) <dknmax(‘.k-‘-l), where dk is a constant depending only on k. These results ar...

"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" shows many features associated with seventeenth-century metaphysical poetry in general, and with Donne's work in particular. Donne's contemporary, the English writer Izaak Walton, tells us the poem dates from 1611, when Donne, about to travel to France and Germany, wrote for his wife this valediction, or farewell speech. Like most poetry of Donne's time, it ...

the problem of evil is one of the important problems considered in the philosophy of religion. this paper considers the problem of evil from the viewpoint of the contemporary philosopher, john hick, and explores his arguments for proving the compatibility between the evil in the world and the existence of an omnipotent and omniscient god. by analyzing hick’s viewpoint about the relationship bet...

The age-old ploy of justifying the commission of atrocities by one group by citing examples of atrocities committed by another must be condemned. Evil deeds remain evil deeds, and evil and evil deeds beget evil deeds. Our only hope is to stop focusing on the bad and start focusing on the good. For conflicting ideologies to learn tolerance for each other, common moral ground must be found. What ...

The view of evil human nature is important in Chinese and western cultures. The thesis chooses evil human in St. Augustine’s thoughts and Hsun Tzu’s thoughts to compare and analyze evil in these two. St. Augustine, who is called “the Saint of God”, views the definition of evil, the resource of it, and salvations of it from the aspect of religious beliefs. He considers that evil is the privation...