The Pre-Research Seminar

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The ABC's of the Christian family

Conclusion The ABC's of the Christian family are affection, balance, and companionship. If firmly set upon these bases, families can truly come to know the meaning of understanding love in the spirit of Jesus. This is true, for these ABC's are basic not only to our physical families, but also to our spiritual membership in the family of God.The spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God; and if children, then heirs; heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that wemay be also glorified together (Romans 8:16–17).     

The ideas of 1914

Battles of the First World War were accompanied by what was the first full-scale war of words in European history. It was aimed at influencing the public opinion abroad as well as at mobilizing the population at home. Leading intellectuals, including famous scholars, participated in propaganda campaigns waged by the belligerent nations. This text focuses on the discussions between philosophers involved in the international conflict.     

On the Christian in Christian bioethics.

What is Christian about Christian bioethics? And is an authentically Christian bioethics a practical possibility in the world in which we find ourselves? In my essay I argue that personhood and the personal are so fundamental to the Christian understanding of our humanity that body, soul, and spirit are probably best understood as the components of a triune (as opposed to dual) aspect theory of personhood. To confess to a Christian bioethics is to admit that Christians cannot pretend fully to understand either cures or their meaning. However effective and "knowledge-based" contemporary medical interventions are, a Christian must humbly and honestly confess a lack of complete knowledge on both levels. At the same time, a Christian bioethicist must express a total personal commitment to Christian Faith.     

The Distinctiveness of Christian Ethics

Book reviewed in this article:
John E. Colwell, Living the Christian Story: The Distinctiveness of Christian Ethics     

古代基督教禁欲主义的诸种二元论根源

古代基督教禁欲主义的形成,根本在于灵魂与肉体和精神与物质的二元论的思想.促成古代基督教禁欲主义兴起的二元论思想,主要有三个来源:首先是宗教自身的先天性二元论因素,即神圣与世俗的二元区隔;再则是东方宗教,尤其是中亚宗教的二元论思想;最后是犹太教传递给基督教的弥赛亚主义中包含的二元论思想.     

说一切有部的大乘观念

作为部派佛教的一支,有部承认佛乘(菩萨乘)的存在,并从各个方面对佛、菩萨、波罗蜜道及三乘差别进行了深入详细地阐述与分析,本文所做的只是对相关材料的归纳与梳理.     

The Duality of American Christian Nationalism: Religious Traditionalism versus Christian Statism

While posited as a unified ideology, Christian Nationalism (CN) actually contains two distinct views of what it means to be a “Christian Nation”—one which envisions a Christian civil society separate from the profanities of politics, what we call “Religious Traditionalism.” The other envisions a Christian federal government where power is wielded exclusively by ethno-religious insiders, or “Christian Statism.” Multiple waves of two national surveys confirm that current measures of CN contain these two factors, which have become increasingly divergent in the past 20 years. In addition, we find that Christian Statism predicts nativism, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and racial distrust while Religious Traditionalism, in most instances, predicts the opposite. Historically, Religious Traditionalists have always sought to influence civil society and focused mainly on family/sexual issues. But a different brand of CN has emerged, wherein all federal and state authority should rightfully and exclusively belong to Christian Statists.