For modern Western societies with a regime of monogamy, it has recently been demonstrated that the socioeconomic status of men is positively associated with being or having been married. This study aims to compare marriage patterns (if a person has been married at least once) for cultures with a tradition of monogamy and polygyny. As no worldwide data on polygyny exist, religion was used as a p...

This thesis is a Biblical Exegesis of Colossians 3:1-3 investigating its significance for Christians today. It explored: the historical, cultural and literary context of Colossians and the church in Colossae; in depth exegetical analysis to determine authorship and its original meaning, including preliminary analysis, contextual analysis, verbal analysis, literary analysis, an exegetical synthe...

Freedom of religion had been assured since World War II in Japan. This entails that people have rights to select their own religion without any political pressure and that their faith and practices should be esteemed. It is indeed true that they are liberated from any religious restriction. There are, however, still some limitations or challenges Christians experience in the Japanese context to...

Preventive medicine is widely popular today. The government hopes through it to solve its rising health care bill. Private industry, which pays the bulk of health insurance premiums, has the same hopes. Physicians are finding in the popular concept an opportunity to protect their incomes while in good conscience protecting their patients' health. Christians are proponents of it because it seems...

Since the patristic period, the birkat haminim has attracted Christian attention. This twelfth benediction of the central, thrice-daily Jewish weekday prayer of eighteen benedictions (actually, for most of its history, nineteen), calls for the downfall of various categories of humans who harm the Jewish community. Instituted at Yavneh in the late first century according to talmudic tradition, i...

A Christian evangelist has claimed that the Torah and Gospels (Injeel) which were available in Mecca during the life time of Muhammad were identical to the Torah and the Gospel that the Christians read today. As the Qur'an attests to the truth of these Books, the Muslims should believe in them in the same way as the Jews and Christians do. Given that four verses in the Qur'an speak of "Tahreef'...

A further implication of the doctrine of creation from nothing is that all of God’s creatures are intimately connected to one another in an echo of the primordial coinherence of the Trinitarian persons. Since all creation is centered in God, all finite things, despite their enormous differences in size, position, quality, or metaphysical status, are linked together as ontological siblings. When...