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James J. Rusthoven For years I have been struggling to understand how prayer and healing are related. My thinking became more focussed as I became more knowledgeable about the science of clinical epidemiology. As I became more convinced that properly designed clinical studies should guide more decisions about establishing better medical treatments, I began to ask myself: Is prayer a treatment

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Kenneth W. KempWhat are moral norms? By what standard do we measure conduct? There are several sets of moral predicates, each of which plays its role in moral evaluation — good and bad, right and wrong, required and forbidden. Although the latter sets take most naturally as their subject human actions, the first is more general. Goodness and badness can be predicated not only of human actions,

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(the transforming influence of the Judaeo-Christian concept of hope on Europe's identity)Jeff Fountain 1. What has made Europe Europe?Europe, as a quick glance at the world map shows, is not really a separate continent. A more honest and modest description would be that it is simply the western peninsula of the Eurasian land mass. The late Bishop Lesslie Newbigin observed that ‘for countless

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Leroy Garrett A slogan presently being considered in ecumenical circles is "No world peace without religious peace." Hans Kung has expressed it in these propositions:Without peace between religions, war between the civilizations.No peace among the religions without dialogue between the religions.No dialogue between the religions without investigation of the foundation of the religions.The slogan

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David A. FiensyThough the phenomenon is relatively rare, there have been historians who maintained that Jesus was a purely mythical or fictional person. More importantly, many non-historians tend to doubt that he ever existed. This paper seeks to present five arguments for the historicity of Jesus. The five arguments are: 1. The evidence from the non-Christian sources2. The argument based on the

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Darrell CosdenWhat is the problem?Historically, Christianity was the dominant voice in both Western and “Orthodox” cultures. Broadly speaking, in these contexts Christian conceptions of reality formed both a common morality and the basic fabric of society.1 This is no longer so. We are now in an age of plurality and pluralism. This means, among other things, that Christianity in general and its

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William BontragerA title has been proposed for our consideration "Freedom of Belief as an Indicator of Democratic Rights in Society".I start with a series of propositions:(1) Freedom of Belief is no indicator of anything for no one can possibly know what I believe, and whatever I believe cannot possibly be used against me. It is only when I act upon my beliefs that an issue of freedom may arise.

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John PatrickOttawa, CanadaIntroductionFor most people Hippocrates is a shadowy figure somehow connected to the ethical practice of medicine; they feel vaguely comforted by the supposed fact that Doctors take a Hippocratic oath of practice. The truth is that very few take the oath of Hippocrates; some take a revisionist version, which retains the name but removes the content; many make no

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Rubel ShellyNashville, USANewspapers carried the news during the 1992 presidential election that Bill Clinton's staff posted signs everywhere reading "It's the economy, stupid!" to keep the campaign agenda focused. As I think about the world we share with one another ‑‑ suburbs and inner city, female and male, white collar and blue collar, believers and unbelievers ‑‑ a "little voice" tells me

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Charles R. TaberJohnson City, USASince its birth on the day of Pentecost about AD 30, the church has stood in many different kinds of relationships with the societies in which it has existed, and especially with the coercive power of the state. Sometimes it has been weak in worldly terms, sometimes it has been powerful in worldly terms. It is the thesis of this paper that whenever the church at

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Thomas K. JohnsonUSA & Prague, Czech RepublicIn spite of the growth of democracy in much of the world, there is still reason to be very concerned about the protection of human rights. In addition to the terrorism associated with matters in the Middle East, the genocide associated with conflicts in Africa, the seemingly growing religious persecution in several parts of the world, and widespread

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John HessUSA and Krakow, PolandWe are witnessing today in the developing world and former communist nations a hitherto fore unprecedented migration of people moving from rural towns and villages to urban centers. Statistically, most cities in the developing world have seen a fourfold increase in four decades and I suggest a similar trend is occurring in the post-communist world. The massive

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Peter BocchinoAtlanta, USA“The final stage is come when Man by eugenics, by pre-natal conditioning, and by education and propaganda based on a perfectly applied psychology, has obtained full control over himself.” CS LewisIn order to address the role of education in shaping morality in the 21st century, we must first gain a basic appreciation for the influence an education has on a person’s moral

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