In Yoruba traditional thought, human destiny has a mysterious power that controls events. It is believed every person their life history before coming to the world. This implies anything one does not something done out of free will in fulfillment preordained or sequence However, such controversial understanding meaning, nature, relevance and reality concept (ayanmo), which long elicited philoso...

In this paper I am going to try and speak to you of some of the things which seem to me to be fundamental in trying to help mentally sick or defective people to a true experience of the love of God within the Church His Body on earth, and to make some suggestions which my experience as a psychiatrist who is also an Anglican has led me to believe to be very important in this field-The aim of rel...

Joseph Selling proposes a contemporary revision of natural law ethics, making it more person-centered. Earlier James Gustafson insisted that natural law ethics was too egoist or anthropocentric, so his work proposed theocentrism as a corrective. Richard Gula in turn proposed an ethics that centers on imitating God’s relationships. This essay combines the merits of all three with the author’s ow...

the present paper studies the introduction of atlal in two imra’ ul-qais and zuhayr bin abī sūlmā works of art. selection of these two poets has some reasons; one of them is that each opposes the other; while imra’ ul-qais is a bon vivant man but zuhayr is a god – fearing one. they both experience different conditions of life. the importance of this issue is their interactions with women which ...

Acknowledgments I wish to extent my sincerest thanks to my advisor Dr. Michalis Zervakis for giving me the opportunity to work under his guidance To my parents for their love and affection To Dr. Costas Balas for providing me with helpful information concerning my case study To everyone else for helping me complete this work KONSTANTINOS E. RAPANTZIKOS

iii DEDICATION For more than a decade now, I have been nursing the afflicted, advocating for the afflicted, serving the afflicted, and on many occasions witnessing the loss that often times accompanies the afflicted! Loss is a hard but rightfully normal part of life on this side of heaven. I do not know if it is the loss itself, or the immediate stages after the loss that are hardest… But I agr...

One of the most relevant features neoplatonism is its philosophy concept as a way life, which consist educating soul view in order to return divine part constitutes man essence, inner man, Platon called it. This metamorphosis reached by virtue practice, makes similar God, untying bonds that join together his body and it cultivates intelligence allows contemplate beauty good share with others.