Use the word 'counselling' in the presence of Christian ministers and it is guaranteed to produce a whole variety of responses. Some will readily and warmly receive the word because they have taken a counselling course, read some counselling books or practised some counselling skills; others will want a more precise definition to clarify just what is meant, and yet others will react in horror a...

In this article, I examine the role of prophetic disappointment in creating ideological change. discuss response two Orthodox rabbis, Rabbi Yehuda Amital (1924–2010) and Shmuel Tal (b. 1962), to crisis faith they encountered regarding Zionism messianic drama. This research describes process religious switching have gone through due failure faith. work argues that their transformation was an att...

T AIM of this essay is to clarify the models of moral thinking and doing called teleology and deontology, to gain understanding of utilitarianism as a subcategory of the former, and to explore the relation both to utilitarianism and to teleology in general of certain Christian "consequentialist" modes of moral argument. This purpose arises out of a general and considerable unclarity in recent e...

Division of Stem Cell Transplantation and Immunotherapy, 2 Department of Medicine, Christian-Albrechts-University, Schittenhelmstraße 12, 24105 Kiel, Germany Laboratory for Translational Immunology, Immunotherapy, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX Utrecht, The Netherlands Department of Biomolecular Systems, Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces, Am Mühlen...

Teacher-education students attending a state university in the Southeastern United States responded to measures of Christian conservatism (theological fundamentalism and political evangelicalism) and sociopolitical values (e.g., nationalism, internationalism, patriotism, respect for civil liberties, and tolerance of dissent). Most of the measures demonstrated adequate internal consistency. Alth...