Since the Bible is regarded as the most important source of Christian iconography and iconography in return is the visual interpretation of the Bible, the relationship between Christian iconography and biblical interpretation is noteworthy. In some cases this relationship is such that the visual representation is actively involved in the interpretation of the biblical text and is...

The historian-theoretician Christian Norberg-Schulz, examining the development of his ideas across 30 years. While Norberg-Schulz started out with Intentions in Architecture (1963), a work that was clearly influenced by structuralist studies, he soon shifted to a phenomenological approach with Existence, Space and Architecture (1971), and then with Genius Loci (1980) and The Concept of Dwelling...

idiopathic lobular panniculitis, sometimes called relapsing febrile nodular panniculitis or weber christian disease first desribed in 1892 by pfeifer, is the term used to describe an group of disease that present as subcutaneous inflammatory nodules and histologically display an inflammatory focus primarily within the fat lobules. weber-christian disease is the term applied to idiopatic cases o...

The integration between psychology and Christianity has been a hot issue for Christian counselors since mid 1970s. The movement of integration has been developed in reaction to the acceptance of psychology in the area of pastoral counseling without any criticism about psychology from the Christian viewpoint. Since Jay Adams totally rejected psychology in the area of pastoral care, the effort to...

dionysius is one of the most important personages in christian mystic that some of his ideas were up to now popular ideas in christian theosophy, theology and philosophy. christian doctrine and neo-platonic ideas are viewed as two main sources for his opinions; although he sometimes leans to one and the rest to another. for example, in discussion about creation, angelology and trinity he tended...

the byzantine art belogs to the world of christianity. the world of christianity has some characteristics which generally reflect the art works belonging to the christian era. any interpretation, critic and studies of the byzantine era art is possible only if it is done on the basis of knowing the world it belongs to. the core of chritian world is the sacred writ and the divine words. the adven...

We conducted 4 experiments to examine how people incorporate visual information about strangers’ religious identities—religious badges—into their decisions about how much to trust them. Experiment 1 revealed that Christian and non-Christian participants were more trusting (as measured by self-report) of targets who wore a religious badge associated with Christianity (Ash Wednesday ashes) than t...

of doubly clamped beams Oliver Ristow, Moritz Merklein, Martin Grossmann, Mike Hettich, Martin Schubert, Axel Bruchhausen, Jochen Grebing, Artur Erbe, Denis Mounier, Vitalyi Gusev, Elke Scheer, Thomas Dekorsy, and Elaine C. S. Barretto Department of Physics and Center of Applied Photonics, University of Konstanz, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf, Institute of Ion-B...

plantinga, wolterstorff and westphal are three eminent christian philosophers in the united states today. this paper will examine plantinga, wolterstorff, and westphal's response to kant's anti-realist epistemology. while perhaps many christian philosophers doing philosophy of religion in the united states follow the common-sense realism of thomas reid, some philosophers, like merold ...