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Understanding God images and God concepts: Towards a pastoral hermeneutics of the God attachment experience

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2015
The author looks at the God image experience as an attachment relationship experience with God. Hence, arguing that the God image experience is borne originally out of a parent child attachment contagion, in such a way that God is often represented in ...
Victor Counted
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Attachment Theory and Concepts of God

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2014
We replicated and extended Buri and Mueller’s study, which tested whether one’s God concept is primarily self- or parent-referenced. Following their findings, we predicted that God concepts would primarily be self-referenced.
Duane F. Reinert, Carla E. Edwards
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Pantheism in Wordsworth: A Study from the Islamic Perspective [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Islamic Thought, 2014
William Wordsworth, a literary icon in romantic poetry, has impressed us with his pantheism and therefore, encouraged us to think of doing research into the concept with some modifications from Islamic perspective.
MUHAMMAD AZIZUL HOQUE
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Dimensional Structure of and Variation in Anthropomorphic Concepts of God

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
When considering other persons, the human mind draws from folk theories of biology, physics, and psychology. Studies have examined the extent to which people utilize these folk theories in inferring whether or not God has human-like biological, physical,
Nicholas J. Shaman   +2 more
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Dream content influences daily spirituality [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
IntroductionThe daily effects of supernatural-agent (SA) concepts on spirituality remain poorly understood. In this study, we focused on dreaming as an avenue to study the effect of SA concepts on spirituality.
John Balch   +12 more
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Comparative Study of the Concept of God in the Book Uthulujiyya and Rasa`Il Al-Kindi Al-Falsafiyya [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021
The philosophical God is explained by philosophical concepts and terms such as ‘being, cause’, ‘pure Act’ that in addition to them, in Uthulujiyya have also spoken of ‘pure One’, ‘light’ and ‘unthinking.’ In Al-Kindi, in addition to the first two terms, ‘
Hassan Abbasi Hosseinabadi
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Elementary School Children's Understanding of the Concept of God thorough the Process of Education According to Piaget's Theory [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2022
The purpose of this study is to investigate the type and quality of understanding of God in elementary and preschool children. A review of the research background showed that so far little research has been done in this field in Iran.
Mohammad Feyzollahi
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The semantic geometry of defamation of God and the role of ontology in its drawing [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش نامه معارف قرآنی, 2023
Slandering God is attributing something unjustly or without knowledge to God Almighty or describing Him to things that do not exist in Him. The purpose of this research is to discover the semantic system of defamation of God in the Holy Quran with the ...
Hossein Hassanzadeh
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Building on a Solid Foundation: Conceptual Mapping Informs Schemas for Relating to God

open access: yesReligions, 2022
How do individuals manage to maintain strong emotional and personal relationships with God, despite the physical (and metaphysical) challenges posed by that task?
Lucas A. Keefer, Adam K. Fetterman
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Does God Comfort You When You Are Sad? Religious Diversity in Children’s Attribution of Positive and Negative Traits to God

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Children actively construct their understanding of God in early childhood, an understanding that incorporates affect-laden mental representations often referred to as God images.
Hea Jung Lee   +3 more
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