I would like to suggest that this sequence of violations may reveal the hand of the final editor of this primary history— Genesis through Kings— and reinforces its overarching theme: The violation of God's law, step by step, commandment by commandment, results in Israel's destruction. [See a fuller presentation in the author's The Unity of the Hebrew Bible (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 19...

the present article is to explain ibn sina’s view on the god’s knowledge of things by rational-analytic method. peripatetic philosophers including ibn sina have used the expression representation (irtisam) in discussing divine foreknowledge of things. commentators and critics of avicenna’s works had not the same interpretation of this expression but had given different understandings of it so t...

En 1961, un article de Souriau relevant une difficulté signalée en 1953 par Dufrenne porte sur la juste part à accorder contemplation dans relation l’art. La zone d’ombre concernant humaine et intellectuelle entre les deux hommes fera l’objet d’un premier examen. L’hypothèse souralienne d’une transmutation conceptions théologiques le domaine l’art sera ensuite examinée rapport sans évacuer ques...

Labyrinths are among the oldest man-made tools that encourage reflection, contemplation , and transformation. They were created 4,000 years ago, and evidence of their existence has been found in many cultures where they are believed to have been important in rituals and ceremonial dance. In medieval Europe, labyrinths were a symbol of the Christian faith; the labyrinth walk often was a substitu...

BACKGROUND We wanted to determine whether a simple tool characterizing readiness to change among patients before participating in a diabetes educational intervention successfully screens for patients who will achieve satisfactory clinical improvement. METHODS Fifty patients referred to a diabetes educational center with hemoglobin A1c levels of more than 9.0% were asked four questions before ...

A. Cosmological proof of the Existence of God In the 3rd Meditation, Descartes attempts to prove that God (i) exists, (ii) is the cause of the essence of the meditator (i.e. the author of his nature as a thinking thing), and (iii) the cause of the meditator's existence (both as creator and conserver, i.e. the cause that keeps him in existence from one moment to the next). The proof that God exi...