Thomas Bartholin's De morbis biblicis, first published in 1672, proved an immediate success and went through four editions during the next twenty-five years. It contains no less than twenty-seven short chapters on diseases and "supernatural" events taken not only from the Old and New Testaments, but also from the Talmud. Bartholin's work is here made available for the first time in English in a...

In this paper, I argue that the work of Vitoria, Soto, and Suárez presents a sustained tradition arguing proper end civil law is formation in true virtue citizens, making citizens capable achieving natural happiness. Although development may prepare to obtain supernatural happiness made possible ultimately by God’s grace, it still contains its own integrity moral importance.

Religion is not an evolutionary adaptation per se, but a recurring cultural by-product of the complex evolutionary landscape that sets cognitive, emotional, and material conditions for ordinary human interactions. Religion exploits only ordinary cognitive processes to passionately display costly devotion to counterintuitive worlds governed by supernatural agents. The conceptual foundations of r...

Religion is not an evolutionary adaptation per se, but a recurring cultural by-product of the complex evolutionary landscape that sets cognitive, emotional, and material conditions for ordinary human interactions. Religion exploits only ordinary cognitive processes to passionately display costly devotion to counterintuitive worlds governed by supernatural agents. The conceptual foundations of r...

the narrations of mahmoud dowlat-ābadi can be considered as a prism which should be criticized in different aspects. there are threads of realistic, naturalistic and somehow surrealistic thoughts in his works. due to the wide range of subjects, we try to analyze just a few of his naturalistic thoughts in present article.  naturalism is the extremist form of realism. this school of literary theo...

The issue of the narrative is closely linked to formation universal story and individual interpretation it within dimensions time, space action. Postmodernism demonstrates proclivity destroy these three dimensions, in other words, deconstruct them. most effective way story, even worse, deprive goal, linear development, where past, present future are carefully outlined, hero envisages end as nat...

The cognitive science of religion (CSR) indicates that belief in supernatural agents, or “gods”, is underpinned by maturationally natural biases and systems (Natural Religion). It unclear, however, whether theism natural. Does the god concept our give rise to approximate theism? In other words, Natural Religion “theism-tracking”? As Christian theologians have different views what God like, we a...

I love the term ‘natural history’ because it encapsulates the sentiment that nature’s operations have evolutionary etiologies. Charles Darwin was a natural historian par excellence and his elucidation of natural selection, artificial selection, and sexual selection fundamentally changed how scientists interpret the origins of biological features previously ascribed to sentient craftsmanship by ...

The article focuses on the popular conceptualisation of a death-related agent which is known in Finnish folk belief and narratives by the name churchyard-väki (väki means ‘crowd’, but also ‘power’ in Finnish). Natural conceptualisation is economical and distinctions are only made when found relevant enough. Verbal descriptions of churchyard-väki’s appearance and actions towards people vary rema...