Although Motahari is not a political thinker but analyzing his political ideas and believes amongst the ideas of Iranian political thinkers in the last 5 decades is indeed essential because Motahari’s political standpoint has a key role in Islamic revolution of Iran. This paper regards Motahari''s vision to his time and studies his writings according to the questions he faced and posed in his t...

This paper presents an overtly theological critique of the governmental regulation of the international transfer pricing activities of multi-national enterprises. In the transfer-pricing arena, it is known that MNEs transfer substantial values across national borders. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development developed a set of Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enter...

This paper attempts two tasks. First, it sketches how the natural sciences (including especially the biological sciences), the social sciences, and the scientific study of religion can be understood to furnish complementary, consonant perspectives on human beings and human groups. This suggests that it is possible to speak of a modern secular interpretation of humanity (MSIH) to which these per...

6 Many a young man who has received his spiritual nurture within the evan-gelical tradition, and who seeks to test his fitness for the Christian ministry, finds the very fundamentals of his faith challenged, modified, and even rejected outright by the theological teachers under whom he places himself. Often the evangelical theological student is limited by his denominational interests in the ch...

Financial derivatives are credited with bringing to the fore a number of sociological and metaphysical problems for modernity, from the instantiation of particular modalities of risk to the destabilization of referentiality in knowledge-claims about the world. This essay argues that derivatives can take on the particular power they hold in such accounts only through a repression of their mathem...

ibn abi- jumhur ahsa’i, a prominent thinker of the shi’ite sage, who was alive until the early era of the safavid dynasty, can be called “the founder” because of his revolution in the form and method as well as in the theological attitude of shi'ite kalam, and since this revolution is fulfilled through illuminative wisdom, he has to be called “the founder of illuminative shi'ite kalam...

In the past few years the more liberal attitude to therapeutic abortion and the widespread use of the oral contraceptive pill have led to a decrease in the number of babies available for adoption. Donor artificial insemination (AID) has been practised in Britain for some years, mainly in the private sector. Owing to a change in the influence of legal, ethical, and theological considerations it ...

Differences in economic and theological approaches to debt cancellation result from differences in disciplinary assumptions in respect of purpose, method, and argument. We argue that they provide alternative commentaries upon the need for debt cancellation, but that it is not possible to demonstrate the superiority of one over the other, so practitioners in one are likely to continue to find it...