when cultures collide, through its major activities that emanate from the translation, they can flourish themselves. intimacy and familiarity of the islamic world with greek medical heritage which happened to be in the golden age of the abbasids in baghdad, led to the enrichment and prosperity of islamic medicine. this sort of familiarity and reproductivity grew among nestorian christians throu...

ever since the rise of christianity, the bible has played a key role in the christian religiosity. it was a guide to faith, a supreme source of belief and morals, the standard of christian orthodoxy, and a means of combating heresies; for a great majority of christians, it continues to enjoy the same position. after the renaissance, the biblical studies, in terms of authorship, style of writing...

The article aims at analyzing the course of anti-Christian polemics end 19th century, and its influence upon Christian community in Japan. century turned to be quite difficult for Japanese Christians. Promulgation conservative Meiji Constitution 1889 Imperial Edict on Education 1890 marked liberal reforms shift nationalistic militarist policy This period was characterized by bashing, when Chris...

he Christian’s proper relationship with wealth has generated controversy in the church for much of church history. There have always been those who claim the Christian must renounce wealth and voluntarily accept poverty. There have also been those who claim that God will prosper the Christian. These differences can be explained by the tensions in the Bible regarding the proper relationship betw...

This article deals with Alvin Plantinga’s arguments against St. Thomas Aquinas’s third way to show that God exists. Although attacks on this argument have come from Christians and non-Christians, my contention is these rebuttals of the arise because a misunderstanding itself. Thus, metaphysical background for understanding first explained, then Plantinga raises it are dealt with. After reading ...

This article offers a reconstruction of social theology in Christianity as theological response to human rights violations Indonesia. Human are universal and fundamental humanity issues that can be locus for Christians do theology. For this reason, any forms violation not just law orders but also require an earnest from religious people, including Christians. Therefore, the writing will using b...