BACKGROUND Belief in divine control is often assumed to be fatalistic. However, the assumption has rarely been investigated in racial/ethnic minorities. OBJECTIVES This study aims to examine the association between belief in divine control and coping and how the association was moderated by ethnicity/acculturation in a multi-ethnic sample of breast cancer patients. METHODS Latina, African A...

1. Destiny of Man This much will, I think, have been proven firmly enough one day: that the universe were the work of an Infinite Understanding, and were designed according to an excellent plan. Just as it now flows from the design into reality through the almighty influence of divine power, and all powers are active and act on each other, like strings of a thousandvoiced instrument sounding to...

Divine view is to industrialization a part of the process of economic development. It has been pointed out frequently enough that the concept of industrialization and commerce can well be found in the divine sources. Because all that subscribe to the divine rules of governance become Ibadah (form of worship), hence industrialization within the religious ambit is also an Ibadah. Divine messages,...

The article focuses on the phenomenon of free will in Paul, taking as starting point Rom. 8:16. At beginning, a concise exegetical analysis Rom 8:16 is presented, placed rhetorical context 8. Subsequently, comparison drawn between Paul’s and Epictetus’s views divine human agency. First, idea freedom presented with special emphasis notion proairesis, understood true self person, responsible for ...

In Crossing the Threshold of Divine Revelation, William Abraham offers a rich, subtle defense of an epistemology of divine revelation. In this paper, I focus on a cluster of metaepistemological claims made by Abraham. Specifically, I argue that Abraham’s remarks about epistemic fit and the epistemic standards we bring to bear in making evaluations of divine revelation claims commit him to a spe...

Horrendous evil describes the anthropological view of excessive evils which devastate and dehumanise both victim and perpetrator, casting doubt as to whether life is worth living. Divine exultation and divine agony are viewed from the perspective of divinity, whose initial creation brought God pleasure and its fall an offence so deep that, though he considered its total destruction, God instead...

man is the only earthly creature endowed with intelligence, will, and speech, all of which are originally divine attributes in their absoluteness. it is due to the existence of such divine qualities in man that he is essentially considered as a theomorphic being and chosen as the vicegerent of allah on earth. as the qur'an (15: 29) says, allah has breathed into man of his spirit. all the d...

studying human free will and option in both theoretical and practical aspects of human life has always been of vital importance. the reason why lies in the relation between one`s religious beliefs and practical life. with regard to the effect of free will as the base of human action, knowing the meaning and its essential agents has been necessary.  although most experts and scholars have been a...

We examined experiencing divine love as an indicator of affective spiritual growth in a prospective cohort of 200 patients surviving cardiac surgery. These patients previously completed two-wave preoperative interviews when standardized cardiac surgery data were also collected. The information included left ventricular ejection fraction, New York Heart Association Classification, baseline healt...