INTRODUCTION Biology is the study of life, psychology is the study of mind, and medicine is the investigation of the causes and treatments of disease. This chapter describes how the central concepts of life, mind, and disease have undergone fundamental changes in the past 150 years or so. There has been a progression from theological, to qualitative, to mechanistic explanations of the nature of...

despite of the fact that the economy has rooted in empirical science, it has been under influence of opinions and religious values. moreover, economical systems who manage leading this science are based on theological and normative principles. today the issue of permanent development conjoint with biological environment and right of aftertime generations, and beside occupying economists mind, e...

Robert Stein is the Mildred and Ernest Hogan Professor of New Testament at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Dr. Stein has a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary, taught at Bethel College and Bethel Theological Seminary from 1969-1997, and has served as a Professor at Southern since 1997. He is a renowned scholar and has writ ten numerous books, articles, and book reviews. His mos...

The interpretation of Old Testament theophanies was crucial for early Christianity’s theological appropriation of the sacred history of Israel, and igured signiicantly in the antiJewish, anti-dualistic, and anti-monarchian polemics of the second and third centuries. A Christian continuator of Philo’s “noetic exegesis,” Clement of Alexandria inaugurates an approach to theophanies that is differe...

Following the demise of Mun Sŏn-myŏng in 2012, the South Korean Unification Movement has entered an era of female leadership. Mun!s widowed wife, Han Hak-cha, rose to become the group!s sole new leader. Drawing on a distinct (co-)messianic narrative, while resuming on the givenmillenarian trajectory – both chiefly shaped byMun – Han successfully coped with the theological and organisational cha...

The fundamental aspects of the General Grand Unification Model (GGU-model) processes are illustrated. This universe generating cosmogony is interpreted using various secular schemes. It is further interpreted, in detailed, via a strict Biblically verified theological scheme.

The religious origin of organizational behavior is not easy to recognize, nor are the implications of the Christian heritage of concepts and ideas as applied to organizations. This paper seeks to remedy this by investigating the theological roots of the mission concept. Our central argument is that corporate mission statements are sometimes used as manipulative communicative tools which seek or...

This study undertakes a narrative reading of the text of Acts 15:1-31 and develops the construct of implicit theology, defining it as generic, usually unspoken ideas about the theological realm that have a measurable effect on individual and congregational behavior. The reading of the Jerusalem council narrative (Acts 15:1-31) highlights three points of view regarding law, grace, and fellowship...

Recent research on conservative Protestantism suggests that religion has reemerged as an important predictor of childrearing attitudes and practices. This research has focused on the distinctive approach toward discipline among conservative Protestant parents. No study, however, has explored the links between conservative Protestantism and positive parental emotion work (physical and verbal exp...