On Christian philosophy

Demythologizing Christian Philosophy: An Outline

The Possibility of a Christian Appropriation of Aristotle’s Ethical Philosophy

istorically, the Christian tradition has heavily relied on Aristotle’s ethical philosophy to provide a conceptual basis for the articulation of its own ethical doctrines, but Aristotle’s concepts are coming up less and less frequently in contemporary ethical debates. The Roman Catholic Church, however, continues to be characterized by their reliance on Aristotelian formulations of theological d...

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...

On Rumi’s Philosophy of Language

This paper examines the nature of language in the works of Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi and consists of three sections: Language and Reality in Rumi; the Complex view of Language in Fihi ma Fihi (the Discourses of Rumi); and, Poetry and Mysticism in Rumi. The paper discusses three main topics: Rumi's ambivalent attitude to language, which is seen as both a means of conveying truth and guidance and...

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We present a model for the radio outbursts of microquasars based on the assumption of quasi-continuous jet ejection. The jets arèlit up' by shock fronts trav-eling along the jets during outbursts. The shocks accelerate relativistic particles which emit the observed synchrotron radiation. The observed comparatively at decay light curves combined with gradually steepening spectral slopes are expl...