Projecting pastoral care in revival preaching: Billy Graham

Conclusion How may the evangelist project pastoral care in his preaching? This discussion sought to delineate some of the answers to this question. However, these cannot become answers for any herald of the Gospel unless he exercises an honest, sustained, self-critical probe into the inter-relatedness of his own being, attitudes toward congregants, and preaching. Erich Fromm asserts: There is no concept of man in which I myself am not included.²⁹ Likewise, there is no discussion of preaching or of a preacher in which each minister should not include himself-self-evaluatively, perhaps confessionally.     

One face of the devil: The satanic ritual abuse moral crusade and the law

The last decade has witnessed the spread across the country of allegations of satanic ritual abuse of children. The allegations are so horrific that a moral crusade comprised largely of psychotherapists, survivors, religious fundamentalists, and law enforcement professionals has risen up in response to them. This paper dissects the claim of the moral crusade that satanic ritual abuse of children is an exigent social problem, analyzes the empirical content of the behavioral science that has grown around this claim, and reveals the symbolic content of the claim. The article concludes with a discussion of the impact this moral crusade is having on the law.     

The psychological treatment of tinnitus: An experimental evaluation

Disabling tinnitus in 27 patients was treated in an experimental setting with two different types of therapy aiming at the development of coping behaviour. One was focused on behavioural control procedures, while the other aimed at more cognitive control methods such as distraction. The results of the two forms of therapy were compared with each other and with observations of the untreated control subjects. Assessments of subjective loudness, discomfort from tinnitus and controllability were made on analogue scales and at a questionnaire follow-up. Psychoacoustic measures such as personal loudness units (PLU) were used in connection with these self-recordings and for evaluation of treatment effects. The results confirmed favourable reports on behavioural methods in tinnitus. However, no differences were found between therapies. The results are discussed in the light of the coping and adaptation theory.     

Graham Oppy,editor: Ontological arguments

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion -     

The 1976 Lancaster Psychology of Religion Colloquium: An evaluation

William A. Graham Divine Word and Prophetic Word in Early Islam—a Reconsideration of the Sources, with Special Reference to the Divine Saying of Hadîth qudsî 1977, Mouton The Hague/Paris ,xvii, 266 pp

Janice Dean Willis (trans.) 202 p. $15.00 On Knowing Reality: The Tattvārtha Chapter of Asanga's Bodhisattvabhūmi 1979 Columbia University Press New York 202 p. $15.00

John Ferguson, Jesus in the Tide of Time: An Historical Study, London and Henley Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980. xi+249 pp. £9.75

David Parry, OSB Households of God 1979 Darton, Longman &; Todd London, £4.50

Annemarie Schimmel and Abdoldjavad Falaturi We Believe in One God: The Experience of God in Christianity and Islam 1st German edition 1975 181

W. Owen Cole Piara Singh Sambhi The Sikhs: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices 1978 Routledge &; Kegan Paul London, 204 pp

W.H. McLeod The Evolution of the Sikh Community 1976 Clarendon Press Oxford, 114 pp

Carlo Caldarola, Christianity: The Japanese Way, (Monographs and Theoretical Studies in Sociology and Anthropology in Honour of Nels Anderson, Publication 15)Leiden, E.J. Brill 1979. 234 pp. Gld. 58

W. Kendrick Pritchett The Greek State at War Part III: Religion 1979 University of California Press, 353 pp. £13.50 ($28.00)

Harold W. Turner From Temple to Meeting House: The Phenomenology and Theology of Places of Worship 1979 Mouton Publishers The Hague, xiv+404 pp. DM 98 $61.50     

Kantian Themes in Contemporary Philosophy: Graham Bird

Michael Friedman criticises some recent accounts of Kant which 'detach' his transcendental principles from the sciences, and do so in order to evade naturalism. I argue that Friedman's rejection of that 'detachment' is ambiguous. In its strong form, which I claim Kant rejects, the principles of Euclidean geometry and Newtonian physics are represented as transcendental principles. In its weak form, which I believe Kant accepts, it treats those latter principles as higher order conditions of the possibility of both science and ordinary experience. I argue also that the appeal to naturalism is unhelpful because that doctrine is seriously unclear, and because the accounts Friedman criticises are open to objections independent of any appeal to naturalism.     

The two-flash threshold: An evaluation of critical-duration and visual-persistence hypotheses

The two-flash threshold is reduced by increasing the duration of both pulses of light or light adapting the eye. Increasing the duration of the first pulse also decreases the two-flash threshold, contrary to what a critical-duration explanation of the threshold would predict. Decreasing the duration of the second pulse increases the threshold when the second pulse is very brief. Light adapting the eye under such conditions serves to increase the two-flash threshold, unlike the effect adaptation has when a long second pulse is used.