In addition to being a religious book with high human and moral themes, Nahj al-Balagha is considered mirror of Arab culture literary masterpiece at the height eloquence eloquence, because proverbs in form short, concrete understandable phrases for everyone, experiences, thoughts convey ideas, Imam Ali (AS) used it facilitate understanding various political, social concepts. this article, we in...

The Protestant emphasis on proclaiming God's word resulted in the rejection of the medieval form of the sermon and the development of new styles of preaching. The two models used by Protestant preachers were the classical oration, endorsed by Philipp Melanchthon, and the patristic homily, which was a greater influence for the Swiss reformers. The differences between the two styles of preaching ...

This article adds to recent literature in the study of religion and marriage by examining older couples’ use of religion as a cultural repertoire in enduring marriages. The study includes qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with 43 married, Christian couples. Couples reported four predominant social contexts that gave sacred meanings to their marriage: prayer, worship services and sermo...

Jesus is often described in the Gospels as a preacher. What has become his most famous sermon is recorded in Matthew 5-7 and Luke 6:17-49. The former is usually referred to as the Sermon on the Mount (note 5:1), the latter as the Sermon on the Plain (note 6:17 KJV). The following study will be concerned primarily with the unity and structure of the Matthean sermon, but a necessary preliminary i...

BACKGROUND To assess the effects of a communication intervention designed to enhance Jordanian religious leaders' (RLs) communication about family health. METHODS Programmatic effects on RLs were evaluated with a panel study design; 245 male and 145 female RLs participated in both baseline and end-line surveys in 2011. To assess effects on mosque attendees, a nonequivalent, post-intervention ...

Only occasionally some essays have been written in English. The considerable redundancy in this compilation of original versions might be attributed to the wish of being understood in spite of the clumsiness of expression in a foreign language. However, the author must confess that he speaks with equal redundancy in his own language – like all preachers do in their sermons if they believe in th...