Gregory of Nyssa lauded his older sister Macrina as "the common glory of our family" and acclaimed her as "the great Macrina" who had achieved the highest summit of human virtue. Indeed, in two works, the Life of Macrina and The Dialogue on the Soul and the Resurrection, he portrayed her as the ideal Christian teacher and philosopher, seeking God with her whole heart and mind.' In these two wor...

So far nearly all spoken dialogue systems (SDSs) have been task-oriented. An important question for the future of SDSs is what happens to dialogue management if we move beyond the task-oriented system to domainoriented systems which are no longer defined in terms of the tasks they support. This paper discusses conversation management for domain-oriented systems by describing the solution adopte...

The issue of gospel and culture has been in contention since the inception Christianity its expansion into other environs outside Jewish nation Israel. As left comfort zone Jerusalem, it needed to engage with different cultures give relevance good news people that were alien which was a national religious culture. Using comparative dialogical approaches, this study thus, discussed some cultural...

Recent years have seen a notable resurgence of interest in the philosophy of love and friendship. In this paper, I bring into dialogue two important texts that approach this topic from a Christian point of view: C. S. Lewis‟s The Four Loves and Søren Kierkegaard‟s Works of Love. I shall argue that each thinker helpfully clarifies important points the other leaves obscure, and that Lewis (like K...

The article inquires critically into the operative understanding of “unity” when motto WCC assembly speaks love Christ uniting world. What does this mean for relationship between Christians and other religions, especially Islam? Muslims repeatedly refer to “Common Word” mentioned in Surah 3:64 as basis Muslim–Christian interactions. author shows that dispute over what “to be lord” means precise...

The Moriscos, the Mohanmedans turned "new Christians" of sixteenth-century Spain, were expelled from their homeland by royal decree in 1609. Dr. Garcia Ballester, in this thought-provoking study, shows how from an organized medical system with diplomas and licences, medicine among this oppressed and largely peasant minority came to be practised by unlicensed healers relying on traditional, ofte...

The Moriscos, the Mohanmedans turned "new Christians" of sixteenth-century Spain, were expelled from their homeland by royal decree in 1609. Dr. Garcia Ballester, in this thought-provoking study, shows how from an organized medical system with diplomas and licences, medicine among this oppressed and largely peasant minority came to be practised by unlicensed healers relying on traditional, ofte...

This paper documents a divergence in the duration of rule for monarchs in Western Europe and the Islamic world beginning in the medieval period. While leadership tenures in the two regions were similar in 700 CE, Christian kings became increasingly long-lived compared to Muslim sultans. To better understand the roots of this divergence, we investigate the empirical relevance of an historical li...