Philosophers have often misunderstood Kierkegaard’s views on the nature and purposes of God due to a fascination with his earlier, pseudonymous works. We examine many of Kierkegaard’s later works with the aim of setting forth an accurate view on this matter. The portrait of God that emerges is a personal and fiercely loving God with whom humans can and should enter into relationship. Far from a...

introduction: accurate documentation of the cause of death is critical for health care planning. in this study, the most important causes of death registered on death certificates and the most important issues preventing accurate registration and access to death information in the town of rafsanjan were surveyed. methods: this was a descriptive study. all death certificates (totally 1197) issue...

Background and Objectives: Spirituality and the quality of communication with God with an emphasis on Islamic teachings can play an essential role in life, including marital relationships. On the other hand, the applicability of relationship with God quality in prohibition, activation, and verbal dialogue is important in this regard. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the model of marriage...

according to ayatollah maleki mianji, in monotheistic religions, the knowledge of the nature of god is not suspect and the unknown; rather  the knowledge of god in the hearts and lives has been entrusted. on the other hand, according to the theology of calvin lot of effort to reject and repudiate the existence of god and living  without  him, is the witness to desire and inclination to god. aya...

Scrupulosity is a moral/religious subtype of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) that remains understudied within the extant literature. Drawing from separate lines of research suggesting that attachment insecurities underlie OCD and that God functions psychologically much like other attachment figures, we examined a purported association between attachment to God and scrupulosity. A large samp...

in heidegger’s thought god is appeared in three main forms: existence, sacred idea, and the final god. the existence, is apprehended with an internal experience; and the sacred will discovered by confronting with an art work which is exhaustive; but the final god, needs to eager expectancy, the god whose absence is expressed in the verses of poets. so the existence, art works and god's abs...

The Bible tells that after Methuselah was born, Enoch “walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.” Then when he became 365 years old, Enoch had a unique homegoing to heaven. The Bible says, “Enoch walked with God, then he was no more, because God took him away” (Gen. 5:22). Someone said that God and Enoch were walking and talking together, and God says, “You know, Enoch, it’s c...

Current research on adult attachment suggests that there are two underlying dimensions of adult attachment—anxiety and avoidance (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007). Attachment anxiety refers to the degree to which adults are concerned with a desire for closeness and protection, and also their worries about the availability of and their worth to their partners. Avoidant attachment, on the other hand, r...