Almost every believer has faced the troubling situation of thumbing through the photograph directory of his congregation, only to see the faces of once vibrant Christians who have now abandoned the faith. For far too long, the typical evangelical response to this tragedy has been to shrug our shoulders with the reassurance that “once saved” means “always saved.” And yet, our consciences remain ...

the key of salvation; as we all know is faith. for this reason: 1) philosophers and theologians of any religion have tried to determine its essence and to explain its nature. 2) these debates have been very important in islam and christianity from the beginning. one of the issues that have close connection with concept as well as the formation of faith, is “act”. now the question that raises he...

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Abstract This article proposes a new perspective for theology calling fresh studies on religion and coping, resilience, wellbeing flourishing. These have grown far from theological areas could be seen as quite strange to that tradition, its methods, views. However, can learn lot these when trying update message of salvation, endowing it with more explicit content offer interesting points other ...

during history, few eras have been as ambiguous and dark as parthians. mithraism ideology had king’s support and promised salvation and a new after-death world to the soldiers. from this view, parthians cared about the political aspect of the religion rather than the religion itself. mithras temple is a good example of political reaction of parthians against roman religious architectures. after...

Religious affiliation and attendance have been shown to affect various facets of mental health, including the willingness seek health assistance; however, little is known about how theological beliefs influence people’s assessments religious secular assistance options. Prior research using conservatism (beliefs scripture, sin, salvation) has conceptualized this perspective as being a schema in ...

In a previous presentation at this workshop (Ben-Ari, 1999), the second author described an experiment in which (even) science educators studying for advanced degrees displayed abysmal performance on non-routine tasks using a word processor. The performance was described as bricolage, a term first used by anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss to describe the primitive science of a ‘savage’, and ap...

Abstract Drawing on Weber's classic study of religion, salvation, and the motivation to be a successful capitalist, this article problematizes relationship among competition embodiment success in practice yoga modern India. Contemporary postural has been popularized ways that fetishize body relation between enlightenment. It become sign self-realization mode reflects possibility transcendence. ...