The last three decades have seen a renewed interest on the part of Evangelical scholars in patristic studies. Recently, theologians Pentecostal/Charismatic tradition started to examine works Saint Symeon New Theologian. latter’s emphasis personal experience Holy Spirit and Christification provides fertile ground for encounter between Orthodox scholars. Recent scholarship is reviewed light conte...

A person must have a heart of stone to glimpse a butterfly flickering in flight across a sun-dappled field, and not feel a little frisson of simple joy at the sight. The editors of this useful and timely compendium in their introductory remarks (Pe’er and Settele, 2008a, this issue) aptly observe that much of the public’s sympathy for butterfly conservation comes from the “beauty and charisma o...

Schoejdt, Sørensen, Nielbo, Xygalatas, Mitkidis and Bulbulia put forward a new cognitive model of religious interactions, which we depict in Figure one. The model stresses three common features of such interactions: the requirement to suppress emotion expression, the exposure to ritualized behavior and the presence of a charismatic authority (1). These features have different cognitive effects ...