This paper examines the concept of God in traditional Igbo-African religious thought, prior to advent Western religion, with a view showing that idea God/Deity who is supreme every area life and sphere influence “creates out nothing,” like Christian or missionaries, unrecognized thought. Even though Igbo conceive strong powerful deities can only reign within their respective where they are char...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine the psychometric properties of the Image of God Scale (IGS) in a clinical population. DESIGN Descriptive, cross-sectional. SETTING University and community oncology practices in the southeastern United States. SAMPLE 123 breast cancer survivors no more than two years from completion of treatment. METHODS Scale reliability was determined with the coefficient...

Feminine language for God has been largely absent within Christianity. However, a focus on feminine aspects of the divine can help Christians reclaim characteristics of God that get lost in a religion where language of God the Father is pervasive. This paper addresses the use of Mother as a metaphor for God and its implications for a therapeutic context. The current conversation around parental...

In two studies undergraduates' understanding of extraordinary capabilities was investigated using religious and secular contexts. Six stories assessed participants’ endorsement of anthropomorphic language to describe attention, physical power, perception, and presence of three agents: God, a human, and Qwore, an agent with the same powers as God. Participants attributed human-like limitations t...

The traditional thesis that God exists necessarily I could as well not exist. Had I fallen from the cliff last year, I would not exist now. Furthermore, had my parents not met, or had God not created a universe, I would never have come into existence. At any rate, there are many ways the world could be without me, or even without anybody like me. It is, in this sense, possible that I do not exi...

the word relation is a new concept that did not used in its today`s meaning one hundred and fifty years ago. in spite of this situation, its substitute concepts like friendliness is used in nahj ul-balāghah many times and each of them express varieties & places in general relation between human and god and other relations. on the whole, we face four relations: human relation with god, himself a...

the proofs of god's existence are among the main questions of philosophers. this question has a special importance in spinoza's works, because it constitutes the basis of his philosophy. in his main work, ethics, he initiates the discussion with the definition of god and ends it up with man's noblest happiness, namely love of god. he deals with the issue in his different works an...