This study focuses on what aspects of attributes of spirituality as defined by Martsolf and Mickley (1998) are most salient for female and male survivors of sexual violence. Content analysis of secondary narrative data, provided by 50 participants in a study of women's and men's responses to sexual violence, was coded to the five attributes of spirituality as defined by Martsolf and Mickley. Th...

St. Bonaventure asserts that man can ascend contemplatively to God through three phases. The first one is contemplate outside us by appreciating the corporeal things as vestiges of deity: this “immanent” phase Bonaventure’s Aesthetics, framed and second stages contemplation God. consists entering into our soul, a spiritual image God: intermediate phase, in which we inside ourselves his constitu...

Timelessly Present, Compassionately Impassible: A Defense of Two Classical Divine Attributes by Philip R. Olsson Claremont Graduate University: 2012 This study articulates a God-concept in the tradition of classical Christian theism, contending with calls to modify significantly or revise classical constructions. Attention falls upon two closely related divine attributes that have, especially i...

Requests by patients or their families for treatment which the patient's physician considers to be "inappropriate" are becoming more frequent than refusals of treatment which the physician considers appropriate. Such requests are often based on the patient's religious beliefs about the attributes of God (sovereignty, omnipotence), the attributes of persons (sanctity of life), or the individual'...

“what is the essential believes of a mature human being or perfect personality from quran’s viewpoint? the present article is going to respond to this question; but first of all, we will explain some of the essential characteristics of qur’anic anthropology which is the basis of its studies concerning perfect personality. then, we will take into consideration the concepts of healthy and sicknes...

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...

the relationship between ethics and religion, which can be an issue in all the history of philosophy and philosophy in all systems studied. but the discussion of kant practical reason and its separation as a theoretical sense and followed by discussion of metaphysical and theological ethics and religion to the realm of practical reason bring about other effects found. although kant denies all a...

understanding of the language of the qur'an is needed for     recognition of the names and attributes of allah. language         of the quran is not equal with the language of religion which             has originated from christianity world. language of the            qur'an and imams speeches do not have one aspect, so that it            can be understood perfectly via lexical princ...