One of the classic tools in Christian theological anthropology for dealing with intricacies human identity is Imago Dei concept. Approaching concept holistically, by exploring structural, behavioral, teleological, communal, and hospitality perspectives, this article asserts that at very core a relational design Creator God had mind humanity – his opera Magna. Theological insights drawn from doc...

Abstract: The author addresses the emergence of cognitive level D in the Four-Level-Cognitive-Development Theory (FLCDT). He argues that the concept of transcendent God, ‘Maker of Heaven and Earth and of all things visible and invisible’ was an important factor for that. The problem of God’s qualities and the view of numbers in medieval Christian and Arabic philosophy are examined as some argum...

And how this book will influence you to do better future? It will relate to how the readers will get the lessons that are coming. As known, commonly many people will believe that reading can be an entrance to enter the new perception. The perception will influence how you step you life. Even that is difficult enough; people with high sprit may not feel bored or give up realizing that concept. I...

items “unreal” leaves out something important. I have suggested that God is, at bottom, one of these abstract objects. You can be a skeptic about the traditional picture of God as a quasi-material, ghostly being, and still believe the idea of God I presented in this book. 3. There can be a God even if no one created the universe. If God is the supremely good being, then there could be a God eve...

Cioran's concept of the not-man seems fit for a psychological mutation species similar to Nietzsche's genealogy over-man. I investigate in this paper definition ambiguous concept, sketching brief history deaths man and God, seeing as being apocalypse.

Despite the lack of empirical evidence some presocratic Greek thinkers did not hesitate to speculate on a spacially infinite universe. This should not come as a surprise, since the idea of infinite appears tightly bound with the concept of an universe, though not necessarily with the construct of the cosmos. Ancient thinkers did not reach this idea easily, however, since the concept did not app...

The Quranic statement that Jesus predicted Muhammad by name is examined in light of the expectation of what the “kingdom of God” was. The concept of the kingdom of God as being the light or fire of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost is contrasted with the Sufi concept of the “Light of Muhammad.” Pentecost could be the Light of Muhammad coming upon the apostles of Christ; the Light is the same, but kn...

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...