During the several thousand years of Jewish history, much has been written about the nature of the Jewish concept of God. This brief section is a summary of some of the major themes. There are different definitions of the concept of "God." We do not all mean the same thing when we use the word God, even with a capital "G." While there are some similarities in the Jewish and Christian beliefs ab...

I would like to suggest that this sequence of violations may reveal the hand of the final editor of this primary history— Genesis through Kings— and reinforces its overarching theme: The violation of God's law, step by step, commandment by commandment, results in Israel's destruction. [See a fuller presentation in the author's The Unity of the Hebrew Bible (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 19...

the present article is to explain ibn sina’s view on the god’s knowledge of things by rational-analytic method. peripatetic philosophers including ibn sina have used the expression representation (irtisam) in discussing divine foreknowledge of things. commentators and critics of avicenna’s works had not the same interpretation of this expression but had given different understandings of it so t...

A. Cosmological proof of the Existence of God In the 3rd Meditation, Descartes attempts to prove that God (i) exists, (ii) is the cause of the essence of the meditator (i.e. the author of his nature as a thinking thing), and (iii) the cause of the meditator's existence (both as creator and conserver, i.e. the cause that keeps him in existence from one moment to the next). The proof that God exi...

In this paper we introduce a general version of the notion of Loewner chains which comes from the new and unified treatment, given in [5], of the radial and chordal variant of the Loewner differential equation, which is of special interest in geometric function theory as well as for various developments it has given rise to, including the famous Schramm-Loewner evolution. In this very general s...

We present a new extension of the well-known Perron-Frobenius theorem to regular matrix pairs (E, A). The new extension is based on projector chains and is motivated from the solution of positive differential-algebraic systems or descriptor systems. We present several examples where the new condition holds, whereas conditions in previous literature are not satisfied.

When I first studied ethics as part of my theological training this centred on the Decalogue. While some special attention was paid to issues in social ethics as well as the challenge of the New Morality popularised by Bishop Robinson and Joseph Fletcher, the approach was in the main deontological. It was based on the “oughts” or necessity (Gk. deon) of God's law. Probably this approach was rep...