During the Desert Storm, the Gulf war, it was possible to read in the newspapers words such as: “In mathematical terms, war is becoming more and more electronically controlled and, as a result, it is moving away from the battlefield. Then, when war comes down to earth, it becomes bloody, it loses its mathematical asceticism.” Reading the newspapers in those days, one had the impression that mod...

In this study, the Sufi identity of Sheikh Abu’l-Hasan Kharaqani, one Khorasan masters who lived in 4th and 5th centuries Hijri era has not been sufficiently recognized or introduced our country until recently, is discussed. Kharaqani was born village Kharaqan north town Bestam Semnan province Iran 352 Hijr as child a poor family. Although his real name Ali, he became famous with because where ...

В статье рассматривается проблема восприятия творческого наследия Ф. М. Достоевского в церковной академической периодике рубежа XIX-XX вв. «Богословском вестнике», журнале Московской духовной академии, представлен довольно большой пласт материалов, так или иначе связанных с Достоевским (в этом смысле писатель оставляет далеко позади себя Пушкина, Гоголя, Лескова и др.). Обращает на внимание шир...

Traditional Finnish timber construction is characterized by simplicity, clarity and scanty use of decoration. The traditional construction technique used a timberwork frame, which led to simple, cube-like building masses. Nevertheless, several log buildings erected around one yard formed a rich and varied entity, both in the country and in towns. The distinctive Finnish wooden town represents t...

Although The Interpretation of Dreams was published over a century ago, the integration of psychoanalysis into the broad matrix of modern social and cultural history has barely begun. During his lifetime, Freud’s charisma was so powerful that the historical landscape surrounding him remained in shadows. Only decades after his death did light begin to dawn. The earliest significant attempt to hi...

The word monster derives from the latin monstrare (to show) and monere (to warn). Originally, it was referred to a divine warning, to be deciphered and kept in mind in order to avoid fatal consequences. Soon after the word monster was used to define any dreadful or mysterious event, thing or person. A monster could be an unknown or imaginary animal, often described in poems or mythological stor...

The past two decades have witnessed the People’s Republic of China (China) experiencing fundamental transformation in every aspect of its societal life, including the transition of economic system from being rigid and centrally planned to free market driven, the transition of domestic enterprises from being government controlled production units to independent economic entities, the transition ...

Re-thinking Origen serves as the final instalment of a distinctive theological project. It follows two previous issues Modern Theology, Gregory Nyssa and Dionysius Areopagite, to complete trilogy.11 = Volume 18, Issue 4 (Oct 2002); Areopagite 24, 2008). The unity trilogy lies in its intellectual affinity twentieth-century project patristic ressourcement which involves thinking not only about ea...

JOAN JACOBS BRUMBERG, Fasting girls: the emergence of anorexia nervosa as a modern disease, Cambridge, Mass. and London, Harvard University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. 366, illus., £19.95, $25.00. Anorexia nervosa has attracted enormous attention over the past 20 years-a level of attention that is arguably out of all proportion to its importance, at least in quantitative terms. It is still a relative...

The historical development of concepts of causality in philosophy is described. Since the Enlightenment and the growth of science, exponents of the two most important concepts, determinism and teleology, have been in conflict. At the inception of psychoanalysis at the end of the nineteenth century this conflict was particularly intense. It was the cause of the first major schism in psychoanalys...