Implications Of Faith Research Articles

The Search for Meaning in Medicine When Confronted with Life-Threatening Illness - How to Include a Bio-Psycho-Social Model into Health-Care.

This paper aims to discover and discuss the place of spirituality in the meaning-making process for patients with life-threatening diseases like cancer. Does the search for meaning serve a specific role, or is it purely subjective? Finding constructive coping strategies can improve the quality of life. Meaning-making might be an essential coping strategy. Research has confirmed that spirituality is an integral part of meaning-making for many patients. To understand the findings of studies and their relevance for oncology and healthcare in general, definitions of religion, religiosity, and spirituality are presented. The main theoretical framework is shown in theories of the psychology of meaning. The search for meaning is discussed conceptually in psychoanalytic terms alongside developing a supporting super-ego. It aims to clarify the psychological effects and implications of faith, religion, religiosity, and spirituality on individual, interpersonal and social levels. The influence of illness on life and the impact of life on illness have to be considered, as cultural/societal challenges influence change processes. Internalization of a supportive super-ego, adequate self-regulation, and subjective illness perception/ "truth" influence (social) behavior (un)consciously. Therefore, a systems-theoretical view of the ability to accept boundaries should accompany the supporting super-ego in the process of the search for meaning. A bio-psycho-social model integrates all aspects of human life which are involved in dealing with a disease. The interest in the bio-psycho-social model is neither outdated nor new. The model is often supplemented by the factor of spirituality, which has been part of human experience throughout human history.

Belief from point of islam and its role in transition of moral virtues by emphasis on biomedical ethics

Moral virtue has two dimensions: cognitive and motivational. The cognitive dimension shows value and perfection of virtue; and the motivational dimension is the internal tendency of the person to do a certain action or express a certain emotion. Faith is based on two things: cognition and wholehearted submission towards Allah with His existential and moral characteristics. The present article deals with the effect of faith on these two dimensions of moral virtue. Faith affects the cognitive dimension of virtues from two aspects. On the one hand, faithful cognition of Allah, human being and the purposefulness of the creation introduce the virtues as valuable and perfect truths. On the other hand, heartfelt submission in faith is the main factor in understanding the cognitive dimension of virtues. The role of faith in creating the motivational dimension of virtues is a fundamental role. Besides, due to distinction of the person’s tendencies from the goal of faith, and the faith’s relation to the moral Allah, a believer’s tendencies will be towards moral virtues. In addition, faith causes the moral virtues to become sacred. Accordingly, the person’s willingness to realize the motivational dimension of virtues is amplified. Due to various ranks in faith, the above effects on dimensions of virtues are of various ranks. At the end, we have briefly listed the implications of faith in a religious approach to biomedical ethics compared to a secular biomedical ethics.

Black Catholic Theology: A Historical Perspective

How did Black Catholics at certain historical moments understand the implications of the Catholic faith and how did they live this faith? How is this faith a testimony of liberation? The scriptural basis for Black Catholic theology is found in the Joseph Story, Ebed-Melech and Jeremiah, and the Ethiopian Eunuch, as well as in the climax- of Philippians 2:7-8. The implications of this faith have been articulated by Black Catholic laymen at the Black Catholic congresses of the 19 th century and in the lives of Black saints.

Is there a balm in Gilead? The implications of faith in coping with a psychiatric disability.

Is there a balm in Gilead? The implications of faith in coping with a psychiatric disability.