Although it is widely recognized that the image of the writer as a prophetic figure has played an unusually prominent and persistent role in the development of the Russian literary tradition, this intriguing phenomenon has not received the close critical attention that it deserves. West European literary tradition provides a well-established context for the image, stretching from Homer and Virg...

Islam as a universal religion has a special approach for establishment of international relations. Different dimensions of this approach can be found in the accounts of the Prophet’s (s) interactions with other nations. Theoretical foundations of Islamic international relations, inspired by Qur’anic principles, have consolidated the mechanism of these relations in practice. Meantime, a survey o...

the muslim scholars, philologists and rhetoricians are unanimous that the eloquence of the holy prophet, peace be upon him and his household, is unparalleled and there is nothing like his style and discourse. to put it in other words, the speech of the prophet is beneath the speech of god but above that of people in that it gathers the most comprehensive discourses and wonders of eloquence and ...

A relatively new field of specialized NT study is a careful examination of the literary genre or style of different books. Revelation has often been classified as a kind of literature called "apocalyptic," but the category of "prophetic" is probably a better classification for the book. The book calls itself a prophecy. If the genre were primarily apocalyptic, this might constitute a basis for ...

Earth cries out: a cry that is global and emplaced. Ministry is a response to cry. This thesisoffers a conceptual structure for a process I call ecoministry. The structure arises from threeintersecting elements: the critical interdisciplinarity of the ecohumanities, the ministerialmodel of James and Evelyn Whitehead (1995), and the prophetic imagination as interpretedby Walter B...