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 citizens of the most technologically advanced and economically developed country in the world, nearly all Americans stalwartly maintain their faith in God, much more so than residents of other postindustrial countries (Norris and Ingelhart 2004). But what is the content and meaning of this belief? Perhaps belief in God has become so pervasive in contemporary American culture that it reflects...

abstract the great quran is the honorable speech of allah which was descended to his honest prophet as a miracle to represent the truth of his mission of summoning people to god. allah- glory to him- has expressed everything in the quran. as the great quran emphasizes, it is full of scientific points and information currently and even very recently discovered by scientists; and it is a wonder t...

n modern culture, beauty reigns supreme. Everywhere we look—whether it's magazines, TV shows or movies—beautiful people dominate. We aspire to be beautiful and if we're not, we are intrigued by the possibility of becoming so. Witness the popularity of shows such as "Extreme Makeover" and "Dr. 90210." Our quest for beauty isn't a modern obsession. Philosophers and poets chronicle the importance ...

OBJECTIVES Individuals with traumatic brain injury may have difficulty accepting other viewpoints, but there is not yet a clinical test to measure the readiness with which one accepts new information as true. This study examined the truth effect-the tendency to rate previously seen material as being 'more true' than newly presented material-to explore whether individual differences in the truth...

Martin Buber denied consistently that he was a theologian because he repudiated abstract discourse about God. However, he did affirm that intersubjective events in the world express theological truth, even if that truth cannot be possessed or professed thereafter as noetic content. In this paper I introduce a concept of “embodied theology” to elucidate this nuance in Buber’s religious thought, ...

I think Odysseus is not lying completely to the Phaeacians, but is stretching the truth. He wants to be known as a hero and have stories told about him so he stretches the truth. When he is telling his adventure and stories, ultimately he can say whatever he wants and no one can really question him. He might not be stretching the truth but possible leaving bits and pieces out to make him seem s...

as a one of the most important figures of speech among linguistic phenomena, metonymy is considered to be a factor involved in understanding the meaning of the speaker's intention correctly, hence it is frequently investigated from various aspects of literature, principles of jurisprudence and theology. ibn jinni was a famous grammarian and linguist in the 4th century a.h (10th century ad) who ...

meister eckhart is one of the christian mystics that christian orthodoxy and catholic church accused his thoughts in medieval ages and named him heretic. most important themes that disparate the theism of eckhart from his christian predecessors are belief to godhead beyond god, denial of possibility of knowing god, innovations about trinity, belief to apophatic theology and etc. he defended of ...