Electronic communication of the Christian message—online preaching—raises distinct theological challenges. Notwithstanding undeniable convenience and unlimited geographical reach “virtual church”, electronic media have potential to separate preacher from congregants, congregants one another, and—potentially greatest concern—the church God, even while appearing accomplish opposite. Communication...

The Creative Act of the Writer-Painter Klossowski, who had originally started as a religious seeker truth in his younger years, will – after « reversal » feel himself invested with role heretic struggling libidinous search for truth. Even creator perverted metaphysics, he remains revelation being, now divine adversary who, thrown back on himself, tends to imitate mystic. is replaced by whispers...

Orthodoxy, and other so-called world religions that were complicit with colonialist expansion and its repression of the “other peoples” (indigenous), their rites and beliefs. For centuries, colonial societies have denied that indigenous peoples had “religions” at all; as the great photographer of Native North American cultures Edward S. Curtis stated, “There seems to be a broadly prevalent idea...

Divine view is to production and industrialization a part of the process of economic development. The divine rules of governance become Ibadah (form of worship), hence industrialization within the divine ambit is also an Ibadah. Divine messages, therefore, stresses both the moral quality and skills in the production of goods. People are getting benefits from industry from different ways, someti...

the present essay considers the relationship between intellect and revelation from allameh tabatabaii’s point of view. according to his view point intellect is prior to revelation and the concepts which derived from intellect and revelation will prove this claim. secondly, we will consider the reasons of precedence of intellect according to the documents and some of his works. with reviewing th...

The article is a study of the late scholastic concept natural theology based on works Fr. Suárez, Metaphysical Disputations (1597) and De Deo Uno et Trino (1607), as well analysis treatise “divine knowledge” demonstration its significance in structure Suárez’s theology. First, explicates highest most noble part metaphysical science, since Suárez differs both from supernatural or revelation theo...

Metaphor is the literal language of soul. To enter realm metaphor as soul to come into direct contact with Word originating power creation, in Bible identified God. In thisexploration metaphorical revelation, richer unveiling its meaning be found writings Báb and Bahá’u’lláh will serve clarify further nature that clarification which contains within it an immediate consciousness station Bahá’u’l...

More than 700 years ago, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) wrote an epic poem about a man's journey through the afterworlds of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. In his Divine Comedy, he catalogued the vices and virtues of people who had passed into those spiritual domains, in part to provide a valuable insight to us, the living. Dante described hell as a very unhappy and inhospitable place that had differe...

According to the much-discussed argument from divine hiddenness, God’s existence is disconfirmed by the fact that not everyone believes in God. The argument has provoked an impressive range of theistic replies, but none has overcome – or, I suggest, could overcome – the challenge posed by the uneven distribution of theistic belief around the world, a phenomenon for which naturalistic explanatio...