In this study, we aimed at investigating the validity and characteristics of the concept of hyporeligiosity in Parkinson’s disease. Twenty-eight newly diagnosed, never-medicated patients with Parkinson’s disease and 30 matched healthy control individuals received the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality (BMMRS), the Stolz’s index of Christian religiosity, and the Francis...

D uring my time in graduate school, I became very aware that those views which were informed by my faith were not represented in the academy. The Association of Christian Economists (ACE) provided me a community to explore how my faith and intellect could be integrated with one another. Perhaps it sounds almost quaint to say that somebody of good intellect cannot be a serious Christian, but we ...

the Holy Father goes out of his way to praise the many positive contributions to human self-understanding made by philosophers who presuppose a split between faith and reason. For more on Fides et Ratio , see my “Fides et Ratio: A ‘Radical’ Vision of Intellectual Inquiry,” pp. 13-31 in Alice Ramos and Marie George, eds., Faith, Scholarship and Culture in the 21st Century (American Maritain Asso...

recent studies demonstrate an overlapping relationship between faith practices of individuals, family functioning, and the corporate faith of congregations. this study reports on the psychometric properties of the Christian faith Practices Scale (CfPS), which was created to empirically measure dykstra’s faith behaviors or “practices.” analysis of a large purposive sample (n=7,403) indicates ini...

for many religious people there is a problem of doubting various creedal statements contained in their religions. often propositional beliefs are looked upon as a necessary, though not sufficient, condition, for salvation. this causes great anxiety in doubters and raises the question of the importance of belief in religion and in life in general. it is a question that has been neglected in phil...

In the context of recent discussions and concern about the value of a Christian education, the desires of college students for the freedom to ask bigger questions about values and mission and to explore deeper meanings in life often go unnoticed. Christian colleges are uniquely positioned to provide students an opportunity to explore these questions and to serve as models for contexts in which ...

Both parents and peers have been validated by previous research as being important contributors to the development of religious faith. The purpose of this study was to elucidate the contributions of the transmission (e.g., parent church attendance) and transactional (e.g., discussions about faith) models of socialization, as well as explore the possibility that a third model, the transformation...