Bioethical Issues as Triggers of Religious Transformation in Orthodox Christianity. [PDF]
Tarabrin R.
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Teaching New Religious Movements Historically: Distance, Empathy, and Cults in the Classroom
ABSTRACT Resistance to understanding the beliefs of modern New Religious Movements (NRMs) is well‐known to those who teach in the area. This paper builds on Eugene Gallagher's repurposing of “methodological belief” for college classes on NRMs by suggesting that scholars and teachers in the field of religious studies engage methods and content drawn ...
Douglas FitzHenry Jones
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The Faith Relationship Interview for Adolescents: A Qualitative Explorative Study in the Netherlands to Evaluate a New Method to Integrate Religion in Psychotherapy. [PDF]
Helder SG +3 more
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Learning to Treat Other Ways of Being Generously Through the Biblical Studies Classroom
ABSTRACT This article outlines an approach to teaching the biblical texts that helps students develop the transferable cognitive skill of understanding the other on their own terms. It appeals to research on threshold concepts, deep and surface approaches to learning, and student centered/conceptual change approaches to teaching to combine the role of ...
John Van Maaren
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Sense of safety or meaning in danger? Real-contact stick fighting as an imagistic ritual. [PDF]
Pauha T.
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Avicenna on the PSR and Causal Necessity in the Natural World
ABSTRACT Avicenna's account of causal necessity in the natural world is a key part of his metaphysical system and it is also historically significant. Yet, there is little scholarly discussion of the philosophical basis of his view. This is surprising not only because the topic is important, but also because the view is challenging to interpret ...
Kara Richardson
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Exploring the Theological Context to Domestic and Family Violence. [PDF]
Clarke J, Wendt S, Mayer W.
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THE DOCTRINE OF DEIFICATION IN ORTHODOX THEOLOGY
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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Reimagining the Discipleship of Marriage Through the Lens of Mark: A Theological Reflection for Bioethical Decision-Making on Contraception in Catholic Healthcare and Marital Life. [PDF]
Abbate S.
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