OBJECTIVE The message of the importance of a caring doctor-patient relationship is now like an old sermon which does not impact anyone's mind or action. Observing the healing practice of the old time physicians, who valued their attitudes and relationship with their patients more than the actual interventions, this paper reviews the literature on their main therapeutic device--the placebo effec...

In (South) Africa, preaching should in addition to textual studies of recorded and transcribed sermon texts, also be studied as an enacted performance thus beyond the text. This article develops argument regarding need for field Homiletics Africa firstly broaden object empirical homiletical research study or performed liturgical ritual secondly, augment its existing methodologies accordingly. S...

One way of characterising texts is in terms of the discourse structures on which they appear to be built. Each type of text, or genre, e.g. the sports report, the recipe, the sermon, the proverb, will have associated with it a characteristic organisation of units. In this paper, a general model of the structure of one text type, the story, is described. This model forms the basis of a program w...

Houses of worship are not places where psychiatrists typically expect to gain insight into forensic issues. But a few years ago, a rabbi’s comments on a familiar passage from Leviticus helped me resolve an intrapsychic conflict that had troubled me for years, ever since I learned about the Tarasoff decisions. When I give first-year residents their introductory lessons on legal issues and psychi...

Objectives: The study aims to reveal the argumentative mechanisms, values, and concepts embedded in Prophet's sermon, its rhetorical impact on enhancing meaning capturing recipient's attention message's text.
 Methods: This analyzes verbal milestones (PBUH) sermon from philosophical, rhetorical, deliberate perspectives. It examines introduction, semi-logical reality-based arguments, as wel...

As its title reveals, Joe’s early book, The Authoritative and the Authoritarian,1 drew an original distinction that is important to all thought about law, and about more than law: to all thought about any form of social organization, from the family to the church—for all human organization requires authority. As for the meaning of the word “authoritative”: in this book, and in his later thinkin...