Does God Have a Body? Rāmānuja’s Challenge to the Christian Tradition

Does God make it real? Children's belief in religious stories from the Judeo-Christian tradition.

Four- to 6-year-old children (N = 131) heard religious or nonreligious stories and were questioned about their belief in the reality of the story characters and events. Children had low to moderate levels of belief in the characters and events. Children in the religious story condition had higher levels of belief in the reality of the characters and events than did children in the nonreligious ...

Does God the Father Have a “Body of Flesh and Bone”?

Mormons claim that God the Father has a “body of flesh and bones.” Nowhere is this statement made in the Bible, so they support this idea through the statement that God created man in His own image, which requires that God look like a man. However, there are many problems with this interpretation. First, the Bible says that God created both males and females in His image. Unless God were a herm...

Euthanasia and the Christian understanding of God.

Analyzing the tradition, hadith, of self-knowledge with regard to the knowledge of God

  Deep thinking on the tradition and analyzing other tradition dealing with knowledge of human soul distinguish this proof from those of philosophers and theologians. Availability, unity of the path and the follower and, most particularly, its being intuitive enter the follower to an objective state and, contrary to conceptual proofs, leads him/her to the presence of God. Again, this traditio...

The Christian Hippocratic Tradition in Medicine

To some people it may seem anachronistic that the aim of Ethics & Medicine is to ?reassert the Hippocratic consensus in medicine as seen through the lens of the Judeo-Christian tradition.? What is Hippocratic medicine? As Hippocrates once stated, ?The medical art has to consider three factors, the disease, the patient, and the physician. The physician is the servant of his art, and the patient ...