Christian Wedding Ceremonies "Nonreligiousness" in Contemporary Japan

A Comparative Study on Eastern and Western Wedding Ceremonies in Korean Films and Hollywood Films

As an adult man and woman love each other and come to have faith in each other as their spouse, they marry each other. Recently people’s economic life has become individualized and women are enjoying a high education level and increased participation in social activities, and these changes are creating environment favorable for single life. Thus, an increasing number of people are choosing celi...

Divorce in contemporary Japan.

Data from the 1985-86 Japanese census are analysed to explore the determinants of the divorce rates in Japan's forty-seven prefectures, using two theoretical models: (a) the social integration model, which is shown to have a greater utility in predicting Japanese divorce levels than (b), the human capital model. Female emigration patterns play a significant role in affecting the divorce rate. P...

Intelligent Design and the Contemporary Christian

John Mark Reynolds is the founder and Director of the Torrey Honors Institute and Professor of Philosophy at Biola University in La Mirada, California. He has writ ten numerous scholarly and popular ar ticles, and he lectures and blogs frequently on philosophy and cultural issues. Dr. Reynolds is the author of Towards a Unifi ed Platonic Human Psychology (University Press of America, 2004) and ...

Contemporary Shifts in the Christian Doctrine of Hell in Anglo-American Philosophical Theology

This problem of hell is a specific form of the problem of evil. The possibility that perhaps a great number of people will end up in an eternal hell is a problem for the Christian who also confesses faith in an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent God. In this paper, I shall introduce issuantist views of hell and show that the basic formulations of this perspective do not provide an adeq...

Legal Reform in Contemporary Japan