many philosophers have combined a Platonic metaphysics about abstract entities and theistic conception according to which God is the creator of ‘heaven earth’, all ‘visible ‘invisible’. Supposedly, unique entity se, i. e., on every other depends ontologically. It has been traditional contention Platonists, nevertheless, that things, like universals or numbers, are independent. How these theses ...

Dr. Allison served many years as a staff member of Campus Crusade, where he worked in campus ministry and as a missionary to Italy and Switzerland. He also serves as the book review editor for theological, historical, and philosophical studies for the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. Dr. Allison is the author of Getting Deep: Understand What You Believe about God and Why (B&H, 20...

As I discussed in Chapter 1, the fact that good people often have to endure great tragedies while the wicked often prosper without being punished challenges the concept that the omnipotent and benevolent God closely supervises human affairs. However, an even more serious challenge comes from the historical evils unleashed in the twentieth century—the two world wars, the Korean War, the Vietnam ...

The conception of “God” is universal albeit categorized in different expressions because the uniqueness every culture. This paper focuses on God African Philosophy and cultural-religious worldview Traditional Religion. makes a philosophical attempt to bring out necessary richness view God. At same time, it attempts harmonize with Western divinity. beauty that lies way lives relates “God,” Greco...

Popular history films sometimes contain major historical inaccuracies. Two experiments investigated how watching such films influences people's ability to remember associated texts. Subjects watched film clips and studied texts about various historical topics. Whereas the texts contained only correct information, the film clips contained both correct information (consistent with the text) and m...

Abstract In Christian faith, dreams – at least some have been seen as messages from God; very powerful examples can be found in the Bible. However, empirical research regarding of God is relatively scarce. Four hundred and fifty-two persons participated present survey, including a group theology-related professions (theology students, priests, etc.). The findings indicate that belief related to...

today, there are a few dozens of historical index houses in the city sabzevar. reviews show that up until now, despite the presence of their special characteristics, variety and role, there have not been comprehensive studies about them but through the presence of valuable samples from various historical periods (teymouri, safavid, qajar, pahlavi), their exposure to destruction through changing...

This paper discusses the geometric correction of measured historical maps and the evaluation of accuracy with case studies on Silk Road maps, “Innermost Asia” and “Serindia,” made by Aurel Stein about 100 years ago, and Beijing maps, “Complete map of Peking, Qianlong period,” made about 250 years ago. The former case study deals with maps that cover thousand kilometers, and we delivered the err...