Should theological scholarship be satisfied with alreadyexisting theories about revelation and inspiration, or is there room for development of a new understanding of the way in which the Hebrew-Christian Scriptures were originated? In this article I probe the question of the ground or basis for developing a new approach to this doctrine. Further aspects of the topic will be considered in later...

Build-up of enzyme–polyelectrolyte multilayer onto glassy carbon (GC) surfaces by electrostatic self-assembling method has been investigated. In order to functionalize GC surface by a starting negatively charged layer, two approaches have been carried out: (i) covalent linkage of phenyl acetic acid through electroreduction of 4-phenylacetic diazonium salt (GCA surface), and (ii) formation of a ...

This paper contrasts materialism and theism in their ability to give a plausible account of mathematics. The ideal, abstract entities of mathematics do not fit readily within a materialist world. Truth, logic, and mathematics require the existence of universal norms. However, materialism has no place for abstract entities or universal norms. How can such ideal norms, inert in themselves, influe...

Over the centuries, time and again, theologians, philosophers, poets and even sociologists have proposed that money should be regarded as a “god-term” (Kenneth Burke). They have spoken of the omnipotence of money (Georg Simmel) and pondered whether we should not organize religious faith like money (Niklas Luhmann). They propagated a “pantheism of money” (Falk Wagner) and called it the “all-dete...

‘Hojjat-al-Tafasir’ commentary is a ten volume commentary among Shiite contemporary commentaries. It has been written by an Iranian Persian scientist, Sayyed Abdol Hojjat Balaghi. Seven volumes assigns to commentary and the first two volumes is about general setting of descent of the Quran and its elements and tenth volume also belongs to complementary explanations. Sayyed Abdol Hoj...

foundational principle of spinoza’s theory about happiness is his new conception of non-personal god. in this way, he begins with recognizing the reasons of anthropomorphism and criticizes the personal god. in this article by conceptual systematism method, these critiques have been discussed. in spinoza’s view the first reason of anthropomorphic conceptions is insufficient ideas about god. spin...

Despite the cultural ubiquity of ideas and images related to God, relatively little is known about the effects of exposure to God representations on behavior. Specific depictions of God differ across religions, but common to most is that God is (a) an omnipotent, controlling force and (b) an omniscient, all-knowing being. Given these 2 characteristic features, how might exposure to the concept ...

C LAR ITAS | Journal of Dialogue & Culture | Vol. 5, No. 1 (March 2016) Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture, Vol. 5, No. 1 (March 2016) 12–26 © 2016 Trinitarian life of God, by being inserted into the Son’s relationship with the Father. This study appears even more appropriate when we consider that the principal concern of the Letter to the Ephesians is the identity of the church and its ...

T HE idea that God is One, as expressed, for example, in the Shema Yisrael: "Hear 0 Israel, the Lord thy God, the Lord is One," comes in part to this: there is but one God (if there's any at all). But it also comes to this: God is a unity, not a "heap." Insofar, God's oneness doesn't differ from the oneness of, say, legs attached to my right side; there's just one, and it's a unity, not a "heap...