Are Christian Martyrs Abuse Victims, Neurotics, or Suicidal? Comments on the Psychological Study of Christian Martyrdom

Justifying the Christian Cult of the Maccabean Martyrs

The Maccabean martyrs were Jews killed c. 167 BCE by the Greek king Antiochus IV Epiphanes. The first of the martyrs to die was the elderly scribe Eleazar, who was beaten to death for refusing to eat pork. The rest of the martyrs (seven young brothers and their mother) were then killed for the same offense. Interestingly, these martyrs came to be venerated as Christian martyrs during late antiq...

Martyrs, Martyrdom, and the Comedia

A Christian Counseling Model: Christian

The integration between psychology and Christianity has been a hot issue for Christian counselors since mid 1970s. The movement of integration has been developed in reaction to the acceptance of psychology in the area of pastoral counseling without any criticism about psychology from the Christian viewpoint. Since Jay Adams totally rejected psychology in the area of pastoral care, the effort to...

Reply to Christian Fermüller’s Comments on Vagueness: A Mathematician’s Perspective

Once, mathematicians discussed intensely the foundations of their field, but awareness of the underlying problems has largely disappeared. Today hardly any mathematician spends much time contemplating what mathematics actually is; we are satisfied with the belief that we examine things in great generality and with great precision. In our daily work, the question of what it means to model someth...

[Early Christian martyrs who refused to worship the cult of Asclepius in the times of Diocletian].

For centuries, theologists, historians, archaeologists, petrologists, and others had been interested in a story about Christian martyrs known as Passio Sanctorum Quattuor Coronatorum. It is a hagiographic manuscript from the 4th century which describes the martyrdom and death of two separate groups of Christians who suffered Diocletian's persecution. One group lived in Pannonia and the other in...