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While there is wide agreement on the importance of love to Christian ethics, just what an ethics of love includes and entails differs depending upon how Christian love is understood. Toward clarifying the relationship between love and Christian ethics, this essay briefly engages the highly influential agapist conception of love and questions its sufficiency as the basis of Christian ethics. Con...

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The purpose of this paper is to challenge the dominant narrative of Christian service providers working for North Korean refugees’ welfare, and to articulate the perspectives of non-Christian aid recipients, especially North Korean refugees in China and South Korea. Drawing upon postcolonialism, I will unpack dysfunctions of Christian missions and ministries while relating them to anthropologic...

Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a rare neoplastic lesion characterized by accumulation of cells having major phenotypic features of skin Langerhans cells. It usually affects young children but rare cases were also reported in adults. The clinical spectrum of LCH includes Letterer–Siwe disease, Hand–Schüller–Christian disease, eosinophilic granuloma, Langerhans cell sarcoma as well as int...

In this article, I seek to put Engelhardt’s work on Christian bioethics in the wider context. First, I discuss some fundamental issues inextricably linked to his work: the difference and relation of a “secular world” to the Christian notion of the “world,” the difference and relation between the concepts of “history” given with human “progress” appearing in the field of bioethics, in contrast t...

Eosinophilic granuloma, Hand-Schuller-Christian disease, and Letterer-Siwe disease are three disorders characterized by proliferating histiocytes. Collectively, they are called histiocytosis X. Histiocytosis X often presents with lytic calvarial lesions [1]. Hypothalamic involvement is the most common intracranial manifestation [2]. Solitary histiocytosis X within the cerebral hemispheres, alth...