human perfectibility may be regarded as a point in which the most dominant religions of the world meet one another. it, therefore, can be chosen as a start point for religions when taking part in dialogue. there can be found different names for human perfection and perfect man in well-known religions of the east and the west. buddha`s name for perfect man is arhat and free man, confucius` is ta...

More than 700 years ago, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) wrote an epic poem about a man's journey through the afterworlds of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. In his Divine Comedy, he catalogued the vices and virtues of people who had passed into those spiritual domains, in part to provide a valuable insight to us, the living. Dante described hell as a very unhappy and inhospitable place that had differe...

According to the much-discussed argument from divine hiddenness, God’s existence is disconfirmed by the fact that not everyone believes in God. The argument has provoked an impressive range of theistic replies, but none has overcome – or, I suggest, could overcome – the challenge posed by the uneven distribution of theistic belief around the world, a phenomenon for which naturalistic explanatio...

I begin by noting that several theologians and others object to special divine action (divine intervention and action beyond conservation and creation) on the grounds that it is incompatible with science. These theologians are thinking of classical Newtonian science; I argue that in fact classical science is in no way incompatible with special divine action, including miracle. What is incompati...

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...

Bu makale müteahhirîn dönem Eş‘arî kelâm âlimlerinden Fahreddîn er-Râzî’nin ilâhî sıfatların ontik değeri hususunda Mu‘tezilî eğilim gösterdiğini ve onu bu hususta haleflerinin de takip ettiğini göstermeye çalışmaktadır. Kelâm ilminin en hararetli tartışma sahasına sahip olan sıfatlar problemi itikadî mezhepler bazında dönemsel olarak farklı şekillerde yorumlanmıştır. Ebû Hâşim el-Cübbâî öncesi...

Since 1969, the superstructure has been the usual approach to nonstandard analysis. The method used to measure the strength of a GDmodel Divine attribute, which is comparable to a human attribute, is, at least, partially expressible in terms of cardinality. In this paper, it is shown that for the non-atomic approach to superstructure construction such a cardinality does not have a set-theologic...

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...

god-centered theories about the meaning of life maintain that a certain relationship with god is an essential condition for life to be meaningful. different interpretations have been proposed in regard to this theory, but the most important god-centered interpretation is the divine purpose theory. according to this theory, fulfilling god’s purpose is the only source of the meaningfulness of lif...

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,...