A muscle will not function properly if the bone to which it is attached is broken or is in a state of degeneration. The same is true of the Christian life. Orthodoxy serves as the skeletal framework for the saint of God. If that framework is faulty and does not affirm truth, the result will be a defective lifestyle. In the Epistle to the Colossians Paul demonstrated this point. The Colossian co...

Masonry buildings, when subjected to external temperature fluctuations, tend to regulate them either by storing heat in their thermal mass or by offering it back to the interior, with a time lag depending on the thermal capacity of the building and characterized mainly by the overall mass of the masonry. This time lag may vary from a few hours when lightweight masonry is concerned to several da...

Poetry and medicine have gone hand in hand since Apollo was the god of both. Literature is a vital element in medicine: biomedical science looks at a slice of experience; literature is as wide as life itself. We would like to invite you on a trip into the depth of life: through literature. Every issue of Medical Humanities will contain a section of original creative writing, oVering a window on...

In 1934, Reinhold Niebuhr penned lines that could almost serve as a mantra for healthcare epidemiology: "God give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other." In the same year, however, T. S. Eliot wrote lines that also resonate strongly and appear to many to sometimes ...

The Qur'an is the word of God which also a miracle that was revealed to prophet Muhammad in Arabic, reached mankind by means al-tawatur (directly from Apostle his people), then contained manuscripts. holy book Al-Quran Allah as guide for mankind, especially those who are pious. Understanding instructions needs be supported related sciences, example: asbab an-nuzul, munasabah, makki and madani s...

all of the major branches of islamic mysticism, ‘irfān, refer to imam ‘ali (‘a) as a major source for their teachings and practices. hence, we begin with a review of how the mystics viewed imam ‘ali (‘a). after this we consider some controversies about the nature of ‘irfān and its relationship to sufism, for the terms have been used in different ways. then we turn to the sources on the basis of...

According to Foucault, Descartes and then Locke would have created a sort of disenchantment, Entzauberung in Max Weber’s sense, of the value of truth. Before Descartes and Locke, theoretical wisdom went hand in hand with practical wisdom and virtue. After them, the norms of knowledge, or epistemic norms, can have all sorts of origins: they can be based on natural facts, or created by language, ...

The aim of the paper is to discern between philosophy and theology. A philosopher looking after impersonal wisdom, a theologian searches for personal God. This differentiation fundamental because knowledge persons differs from that. author shows how taking into account fact that theology based on second-person changes way one should approach hiddenness argument.
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