The information super-highway is here, technically at least, fulfilling the predictions of the prophets of the Information Age back in the late 1970s. The convergence of voice, data, and video using broadband network capabilities promises rapid growth in multimedia communications. Multimedia services are likely to grow rapidly as both hardware and software advances are combined with new applica...

Psychotic and religious experiences have been associated since the earliest recorded history, and undoubtedly before. The Old Testament uses the same term, in reference to madness sent by God as a punishment for the disobedient, and to describe the behavior of prophets (Rosen, 1968). Socrates declared, "Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by div...

he Christian’s proper relationship with wealth has generated controversy in the church for much of church history. There have always been those who claim the Christian must renounce wealth and voluntarily accept poverty. There have also been those who claim that God will prosper the Christian. These differences can be explained by the tensions in the Bible regarding the proper relationship betw...

The insistence that the prophets of Hebrew Bible were “forthtellers, not foretellers” is ubiquitous in academic, liberal Christian, and even secular circles. It categorically denies ancient Israel predicted future characterizes them instead as voices social critique. This article explains origins phrase, its philosophical religious underpinnings Protestant, Enlightenment, Romantic, “scientific”...

guardianship is a magnificent term and concept that, regarding its verbal and terminological meanings, has different levels in the quran and narrations, and has ties with a variety of concepts. at one level, guardianship is exclusively for god, and at a lower level, this position has been bestowed upon the prophets and imams by the sublime god’s permission. the latter level guardianship is cond...