God our king

With God on our side :

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M Edia S Potlight the God Code Is God ’ S Name Etched upon Our Dna ?

Just as an art ist signs his works, it has been sug gested that God has signed His work of Cre ation by en coding within the DNA of all liv ing things His name ac cording to the an cient He brew and Arabic al pha bets. A star tling dis cov ery if true. Af ter a 12-year study, New York Times best sell ing au thor Gregg Braden claims to have discov ered just such a sig na ture—what he calls “the ...

Worshipping the king god: a preliminary analysis of Chintang ritual language in the invocation of Rajdeu

God, King, and Geometry: Revisiting the Introduction to Cauchy’s Cours d’Analyse

This article offers a systematic reading of the introduction to Augustin-Louis Cauchy’s landmark 1821 mathematical textbook, the Cours d’analyse. Despite its emblematic status in the history of mathematical analysis and, indeed, of modern mathematics as a whole, Cauchy’s introduction has been more a source for suggestive quotations than an object of study in its own right. Cauchy’s short mathem...

Serving God in a Largely Theocratic Society: Rivalry and Cooperation between Church and King

A “largely theocratic society” (LTS) is defined as one in which the main purpose of government is religious and some coercion is used to serve it. Such societies exist at least in the imagination and discourse of some people. The focus is on LTS in which the major religious roles are assigned -partly on the basis of theological interpretations -to priesthood, kingship and community. In the smal...