K. Murakami: The Christian Doctrine of Salvation

Christian ethics--an irrelevance or the salvation of medicine?

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...

Psychological implications of the doctrine of Christian Perfection with special reference to John Wesley's view.

The doctrine of Christian Perfection is viewed by some as a wonderful and liberating doctrine, but by others it is seen as producing false expectations and guilt. John Wesley, the first major theologian to develop a theology of Christian Perfection, encountered misunderstandings and problems with this doctrine. He wrote and preached to correct the misunderstandings. Unfortunately, misunderstand...

“Dilute” Birman–Wenzl–Murakami Algebra

Explicit expressions for three series of R matrices which are related to a “dilute” generalisation of the Birman–Wenzl–Murakami algebra are presented. Of those, one series is equivalent to the quantum R matrices of the D (2) n+1 generalised Toda systems whereas the remaining two series appear to be new. A “dilute” generalisation of the Birman–Wenzl–Murakami (BWM) algebra [1, 2] has recently bee...

.Social salvation

“ Students here are basically apat­ hetic," Dean o f Students James Roemer commented to a less than capacity crowd at last n igh t’s security seminar in LaFortune Stu­ dent Center. Eight students were in attendance. The seminar was jo in tly con­ ducted by Roemer, Assistant D irec­ to r o f Security Rex Rakow, and investigator Ann Schelllnger. It focused on the security needs o f women at the U...