Means Of Salvation Research Articles

Tinjauan Teologis Konsep Keselamatan Menurut Roma 10:9 dan Implikasinya Bagi Penginjilan Masa Kini

Safety is fundamental part of human life. The issue of the doctrine of salvation is a never-ending discussion. Because this is closely related to a belief in life in the future. Yet not many people take seriously the importance of salvation. There are some people who say salvation is matter of later, what important now is to focus on life in this wolrd. So it very necessary for every believer to take responsibility for preaching the gospel of salvation. Because of what is happening now, many believers are more focused on living tn the present. Many believres do not take their evangelistic mandate seriously and consistenly, even though the content of salvation is extraordinary and veru clear. As a believer, preaching the gospel is a task that is most basic and even become a believer’s lifestyle. Because salvation in Jesus is an important principle whose end is eternal salvation. The context of this discussion is focused on the theological overview of the concept of through writing, namely, First, believers understand how important the meaning of salvation is for everyone. Second, belivers fulfill the call to carry out the great commission in all aspects of life; Third, every believer always has creativity in conveying the gospel message to everyone who does not believe in Jesus.

What is the placebo effect?

For the first time, the placebo effect was described in 1955 by the American physician Henry Beecher, who found that about a third of patients recover as a result of the use of sugar pills that do not contain any active medicinal substances. The first mentions of such drugs date back to the 18th century; at that time they meant "fake" drugs containing indifferent substances in their composition. It is believed that the placebo effect is associated with a person's psycho-emotional perception of this drug as a means of salvation, belief in its effectiveness and efficacy, and the desire to recover. Against this background, the maximum mobilization of vital forces occurs, the processes of regeneration are switched on, and the physical and mental state of the patient is normalized. An interesting fact is that the severity of the placebo effect can be significantly affected by the cost of the drug (the higher it is, the better the drug "helps") and even its appearance. For instance, yellow pills are very effective in treating depression, green pills help reduce feelings of anxiety, and white pills assist in treating stomach ulcers. In addition, taking two pills has a greater positive effect than taking one.

Rethinking the Concept of Double Consciousness in Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folks (1903)

Summary In an essay titled “Of our spiritual strivings”, W.E.B. Du Bois coined and elaborated the concept of “double consciousness” to refer to the ambiguity of being black and American. The ambivalence and unstable identities suggested by the term imply living a life characterised by seemingly irreconcilable dualities. On the one hand, blacks are entitled to become Americans because the slave labour they were forced to provide created the material and economic basis of modern America. On the other hand, the black people who created the wealth of the American nation find themselves marginalised or occupying low-paying jobs, leading to the condition of double consciousness being seen as a hindrance to the progress of the black race. In the American South, before the emancipation of slaves, black people were raped, racially segregated, lynched, and denied equal opportunities. Du Bois explains the ruthless experiences that the Negroes endured because of double consciousness as he asserts that the feeling of both belonging and not belonging to America often sent black people to court; thus, false gods invoking false means of salvation. At times blacks felt ashamed of themselves. Du Bois perceives the evil experiences endured by black people as concretised in the musical form of the Negro Spirituals. An analysis of selected songs suggests that these songs are the most beautiful expression of human experience because the songs manifest an awareness of the self that is more than the two-ness implied in the concept of double consciousness. The paradox indicated above confirms double consciousness as on one level a source of evil experiences of the Negroes, and on another, positive level, the condition that enabled them to fashion new discourses of resistances in order to express their desire to escape slavery. This article uses Gilroy’s notion of the ambiguity of modernity in fashioning identities of the Black Atlantic in order to rethink the idea of double consciousness, and at the same time amplify the multiple ways in which black people experienced slavery in America.

Can America be Saved? A Pastoral Response to Racism and Covid-19 and an Appeal for Dreams, Visions, and Imagination

ABSTRACT This article focuses on the possibility of salvation for the United States of America in light of COVID-19 and systemic racism through the practice of dreams, vision and imagination. I begin with an exploration of visions, dreams, and imagination as a gateway to holistic ways of knowing, being, and doing. Then, through a biblical analysis of apocalyptic texts from the books of Daniel and Revelation, I ground concepts of dreams, visions and imagination as ways through which salvation is realized. Finally, drawing on Wesleyan theology, womanist theological analyses, Jungian thought and practical theological resources, I discuss theological and practical means of salvation which underscore the need for continuous social and theological engagement and creative expression.

Upacara Adat Basaru’ Sumangat dalam Konteks Batalah Tradisi Dayak Kanayatn dan Hubungannya dengan Liturgi Gerejani dalam Konteks Sakramen Pembaptisan

This research aims to find out the basic meaning of the traditional ritual of Basaru 'sumangat in the context of batalah for Dayak Kanayatn people, the meaning of baptized sacrament in the Catholic Church, the relationship between Adat basaru' sumangat in the context of Batalah Kanayatn traditions with baptized sacrament Catholic Church. Using a qualitative approach, data were obtained from the results of in-depth interviews which focused on the village of Nangka, Landak district. The results of the research analysis show that: First, the basic meaning of the Batalah tradition of the Kanayatn Dayak people in Nangka Village is a ceremony that allows a newborn to gain safety. According to Kanayat Dayak belief in Nangka Village by carrying out the batalah ceremony, all bad things in the baby's body are removed thanks to the prayers delivered by the panyangahatn priest to Jubata or God, and by carrying out this batalah ceremony the existence of a baby will be recognized in society. Second, the meaning of the batalah tradition is almost the same as the tradition of the baptismal ceremony in the Catholic Church, which focuses on the appreciation of union with Jesus Christ which leads to holiness and salvation. Third, the relationship between the basaru 'sumangat ceremony in the context of the Batalah Dayak Kanayatn tradition with the sacrament ceremony of baptism in the Catholic Church is the path of holiness to salvation and the initiation of salvation. The path of holiness to salvation means that the holiness received through baptism or through the bat ceremony brings a person to salvation. Whereas the initiation of salvation is intended as a process that initiates a person into belonging to those who have safety. Both as members of the community (in babies who are questioned) and as members of the Church (in people who are baptized).

The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers

The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers

English Reformer John Frith on Catholic Theology of Purgatory

The Catholic theology of purgatory and its refutation in the works of the ideologists of Protestantism in the first third of the XVI century is analyzed in the article. The works of the little-known in the domestic historiography of the English reformer John Frith (1503-1533) are investigated. Frith’s commitment to Protestant dogmas on justification by faith and the exceptional authority of Holy Scripture is shown. It is noted that Frith, following them, denied the existence of purgatory, since it cannot be confirmed by the Holy Scriptures, and he interpreted the “cleansing fire” mentioned in the New Testament texts symbolically as torment of conscience and repentance. It is claimed that the theologian considered faith to be the atoning sacrifice of Christ the only means of salvation. It is concluded that the denial of purgatory naturally led Frith to a refutation of the Catholic practice of papal acts of grace and their theological justification, for which he was arrested and sentenced to be burned. It is emphasized that J. Frith called purgatory "creation" of the Roman pontiff and saw purely material reasons for the emergence and existence of faith in purgatory. It is noted that criticism by the English reformer of the Catholic faith in purgatory was subsequently reflected in the Anglican creed.

Becoming Human: Dombey and Son and the Economy of the Pet

ABSTRACTWhile much has been written about Charles Dickens’s figuration of the daughter as a means of salvation for the capitalist father in Dombey and Son, the figure of the pet, which bears enormous ideological weight, is underanalysed. Attending to the style, content, and purposes of the symbolic and psychic economy of the pet, I argue that the distinction of public and private on which Dickens relies is interchangeable with another dichotomy he labours to establish between the untamed and the domestic. Examined from this angle, the novel’s chief concern is with the possibility of becoming human - that is to say domesticated - within a relentlessly feral world. It is through intersubjectivity that the stray canine becomes Diogenes the pet, a process that prefigures, and as I will show intimately related to, Paul Dombey’s own metamorphosis.

One Eye on Hitler, the Other Eye on Stalin: How Britain Explored a British-Soviet Alliance from January to June of 1941

This essay examines how the British Government, in the lead-up to Operation Barbarossa, perceived the notion of an anti-German coalition comprising Britain and the Soviet Union British diplomats, including Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Ambassador Sir Stafford Cripps, assessed the extent to which the Soviet Government was committed to its Non-Aggression Treaty with Germany and how far Josef Stalin was prepared to appease Adolf Hitler and thereby prevent a military conflict with the Third Reich. As a consequence, following the fall of France to the Germans in the summer of 1940, of Britain perilously standing alone against the might of Nazi Germany, Whitehall looked increasingly to the USSR, a country which many British officials traditionally harboured feelings of grave disquiet over, as a means of salvation. However, British diplomats reported, indeed, lamented, that such was the fear felt by the Soviet Government of a war with Germany, together with Stalin’s ingrained distrust of Britain, that the chances of Moscow abandoning its Non-Aggression Treaty with Berlin and joining forces with London in an anti-Hitler coalition were negligible.

A historical review of Mevlud, the most popular poem of Alhamiado literature

Mevlud is a poem on the birth of Muhammed, the Prophet. The first Mevlud poem was written by Sulejman Celebi, in 1409, under the title ?Vesiletu?n Nedzat? in Bursa, meaning the ?The Means of Salvation?. The word mevlud (Ar. mawlid) means ?a place or time of someone?s birth?. This expression has acquired different meanings in time, as ?the birth of the Prophet Muhammed? and ?the celebration organised on this occasion?, or during more significant events in life of the Muslims and their families. The Mevlud celebration i.e. the Mevlud poem as its central part, can be considered as a cultural form preserving the tradition of love towards the Prophet Muhammed, love towards God, and certianly, the tradition of mutual love among people. With this paper, we want to present the most beautiful Mevlud poems in our language and their significance in the life and culture of the Balkan Muslims. The paper is interdisciplinary and it shall follow the historical development of Mevlud, its literature-historical position within the Alhamiado literature, and the custom practice of Mevlud, as a celebration with its ethnological significance.

Salvation in Acts 16:16-40: A socio-historical exploration of the Graeco-Roman understanding

This article demonstrates the value of understanding the socio-historical background of a specific text in the task of interpretation and the search for meaning. This is done here by utilising the socio-historical method in the search for meaning and understanding of the concept of salvation in the narrative about the slave girl in Acts 16. Substantial integration of the understanding of words and concepts at the time of writing the text and the cultural and social background is relevant and leads to an in-depth understanding of the Biblical text and is therefore essential for thorough New Testament studies. Through the socio-historical method, the article explores the Graeco-Roman understanding of salvation as a necessary precursor to arrive at the meaning of salvation in Acts 16. Theos upsistos [Most High God] and the Lukan usage of πνeῦμα Πύθωνα [python spirit] are explored in the light of their Graeco-Roman allusion in relation to the girl who was a slave in the narrative of Acts 16. The article argues that Luke’s point in the narrative is to expose, engage, challenge and counter the long-held assumptions about what is the meaning of salvation and how to obtain it. The article contributes an exemplification of the use of the socio-historical method towards the broader and in-depth understanding and credible meaning-making of the Acts 16 text. The article challenges assumptions about the point of the text in the narrative of Acts 16 and opens up possibilities for further interpretation that could be found meaningful to modern-day interpreters of the text.

Nacrt ekološke duhovnosti prema enciklici Laudato sì pape Franje

In the wake of the Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato sì which talks about the Earth as a common home of all people, the author offers a draft of ecological spirituality. The beginning of true eco-spirituality is ecological conversion, which is nothing else but a renewed consciousness that from our faith and encounter with Jesus Christ we also ought to change our relationship with the world around us. Ecological conversion should help the faithful to repeatedly and correctly develop their awareness of having been created, of their own immersion into the world of creatures with which they are interconnected. Correct ecological attitude leads to internal balance of the man himself, to solidarity with others, to natural balance of all living beings and to spiritual balance with God. Ecological awareness can help not only to preserve the environment, which is one of the basic goals, but also to change the way of behaviour, which can raise the quality of life of both the individual and the family. Ecological spirituality understands and lives the sacraments in a new way, as a means of salvation and sanctification, because in the sacraments God uses the visible matter in order to communicate his (invisible) grace. Eco-spirituality calls for upbringing and adopting new attitudes in the lives of contemporary Christians which need to help them to properly treat the created world.

Horace Bushnell on Christian Nurture and Revivalism

Where is the importance of home education today? Home education would be influenced by parents’ values and their teaching methods. We live in an era in which we emphasize the importance of parents' understanding of Christian home education in Christian families. If so, what is the value of parental child education in Christian families and what education would be desirable? This study emphasizes Christian nurturing in the family by studying Bushnell’s Christian nurture. Bushnell’s Christian Nurture tells two significant concerns of his ministry. First concern is all about the prevailing view of infant baptism. Although he did not deny the sacramental grace, Bushnell thought that the rite as practiced implied too sudden and radical a change in the character of the child. The approach seemed to him as unrealistic and verging on superstition. Bushnell’s second concern was a discontent with revivalism as the sole means of salvation. Even he was not opposed to all revivalism and revival conversion, because when he was a law student at Yale, a revival started him on his final career path. But he opposed all revivals because Calvinism did not teach a valid Christian experience. The situation in the United States at that time was the days of the Great Awakening, in which Jonathan Edward and others were active, and the main emphasis was on the total depravity of man, the grace of God, and the salvation through conversion and faith. In this context, it is very unusual for children born in Christian families to be recognized as Christians and to emphasize Christian nurturing for their children. Therefore, we examine Bushnell’s conversion, infant baptism, child care and evangelism, and seek implications for his family education. In addition, the importance of today’s balanced Christian home education is to cooperate with the church to provide Christian education to children with parent education and to become healthy homes.

The ontology of good and evil and the problem of freedom of choice christian philosophical reasoning of S. Kierkegaard

The article reveals the peculiarity of S. Kierkegaard’s philosophical arguments about the essence of good and evil, the problems of ethical and psychological compression of human existence in transcendence «or-or». The ontology of good and evil is revealed by the philosopher in the problem of freedom as a given and unfreedom as a limitation, when good as God resides in freedom. God does not know unfreedom precisely for his freedom is unrecognized, and this is the greatest punishment for evil. It is noted that a Christian who is an ethical person finds himself in a situation of choice between good and evil, and the hovering of the process of choice in time leads to a choice in unfreedom, which is already sin and evil. The emphasis is placed on the concept of “sin” in the Christian definition of it by S. Kierkegaard, as well as on the problem of «blocking» the choice by fears. The article establishes the connection between sin and fear in the problem of faith and human action. The analysis of differentiation of fear as fear to be oneself and fear not to be oneself is carried out. Fear in philosophy S. Kierkegaard is defined as the psychological problem of choice and the metaphysical essence of evil that experiences fear of good. Evil is afraid of good because it defines it as something that encroaches on the essence of evil – unfreedom. People are afraid of their knowledge of lack of freedom and loss of faith. The question of Christian faith in the metaphysics of freedom of choice is a means of salvation from the demonicness of non-freedom, according to the philosophy of S. Kierkegaard. The loss of faith at any stage of life leads a person to despair. There are two types of despair in the philosophy of S. Kierkegaard: despair to be I and despair not to be I. The article focuses on the problem of sin. The problem of defining sin reveals the meaning of despondency as the beginning of any sin. Discouragement is bound to the darkness of evil, the place of permanent stay restless demoni and eternal falling into the abyss. A disappointed person does not have a point of support for the “leap of faith”, so she seeks comfort in the realization of her desires and the injection of fear. That is why the “leap of faith” from the ethical to the religious person is considered in the article as a way out of the choice between good and evil. The article also provides a brief comparative review of the philosophical arguments Of S. Kierkegaard and existentialist philosophers.

The only way to save humanity from total collapse - nootechnologies and noosciences

The urgency of the research topic lies in the author's search for the elimination of environmental and other threats to the existence of mankind. The population of Homo Sapiens increases quantitatively, intensify the rate of degradation of the natural environment and accelerates the movement to the total Collapse. Scientists in the world create only appeals and “warnings” of danger, but even the UN decision and three environmental forums 1992, 2002 and 2012 do not indicate real means of salvation. The purpose of the study is a critical analysis of the works of scientists of the world and their environmental projects and plans. The objectives of the study are to offer a real way of saving humanity through the replacement of industrial technologies with environmentally safe nootechnologies, the development and use of the noosciences. The methodology of the study is based on the authors' foundations of the basis of many new exact and humanitarian noosciences - noophilosophy, nooecology, noohistory, noosociology, noocognitiology, and others. We use the noointegral, systemic and noohistorical methods within the framework of a promising principle of global evolutionism with transdisciplinary approaches. The result of the study is unquestionable evidence that in the flow of nanotechnologies since 2000 ecologically safe appears, which we propose to call wise - neotechnologies. Their number is small and the number is growing slowly, but the trends of world science evidenced by the inevitability of the victory of nootechnologies and elimination of all industrial technologies. The main result of the study is the list of noosciences and nootechnologies, which are terms from the future. They form the Nooglossary for which we received the copyright certificate - a legal document of our author's priority. The conclusion is that humanity will be saved not by the third industrial revolution by J. Rifkin and not by the fourth K. Schwab or “smart-activity”, but by the development of the nooosciences (noowave No. 4) and the massive use of environmentally safe nootechnologies. Nooera has already begun, but humanity does not notice it yet. The first nootechnologies exist, but they are still too small. We have created the Nooglossary to accelerate the progression of noofuture

Quodvultdeus’ sermons on the creed: A reassessment of his polemics against the Jews, pagans, and Arians

The sermons of Quodvultdeus Bishop of Carthage during the time of the Van­dal invasion of Africa are characterised by their harsh polemics against the Jews, Pagans, and Arians (De symbolo 1-3; Contra Iudaeos, paganos, et Arrianos; De accedentibus ad gratiam 1-2). The polemics against the Arians derived from the fact that the new lords of Africa, the Vandals, were Arians who promoted their belief and persecuted the Romans for professing their Catholic faith. This paper aims to reassess the polemical character of Quodvultdeus’ sermons. They are exa­mined in their liturgical context and compared to other contemporary writings on the Creed, and finally discussed in their historical and religious context. In view of this analysis, it can be stated that the works of Quodvultdeus studied here are not primarily anti-heretical, but they rather focus on affirming the doctrine of the Church and on the adherence of the newly baptised to the Church as a means of salvation. Quodvultdeus’ harsh anti-heretical language is not exceptional in the Latin tradition of creedal catechesis during the 4th and 5th centuries and has there­fore chiefly a catechetical function.

Salvation in Acts 16: Meaning and missional implication derived from the sociohistorical method

In Acts 16:17, a slave girl proclaims: ‘these men are the servants of the Most High God who have come to show a way of salvation!’ The Philippian jailer in Acts 16:30 asks, ‘What must I do to be saved?’ What do they have in common regarding their understanding of the meaning of salvation? How is it similar or different from the understanding of salvation in Africa? Are these in line with the salvation narrative aim of Luke in Acts 16? Through the sociohistorical method, this paper explores the Greco-Roman context of the slave girl and the jailer. In this process, a contextual similarity between the Greco-Roman context and the African context is identified and the impact of these contexts on the understanding of the meaning of salvation is examined. Placed in conversation with the Lukan meaning of salvation in the passage, an alternative meaning of salvation emerges, along with implications for the Greco-Roman and African contexts.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This article shows interdisciplinarity by an engagement with a theological concept through the utilisation of the sociohistorical method in generating meaning and understanding of a New Testament text. It navigates the disciplines of New Testament, Biblical Studies, Mission and Apologetics.

“Ruin and Death Suddenly Came to Our Homes”

Abstract The article concentrates on a collection of sermons delivered by the Prussian preacher Ludwig Borowski during Prussia’s wars against Napoleon (1806–1816). The author makes an attempt to retrace the evolution of the concept of war devised by Borowski in his sermons. After Prussia’s defeat in the war of 1806 Ludwig Borowski interpreted the war as God’s punishment on the Prussian people. God is represented in Borowski’s sermons as a wise father who wants to get his children to behave. The further evolution of the concept can be seen in 1813 when Prussia reopened hostilities against France. In the sermons of 1813–1816 the war will be conceptualized by Borowski as a means of salvation, a holy crusade for liberty and independence. Borowski never preaches national hatred. The aim of the war is peace that is considered to be a gift from heaven to humanity.

Erotic Mysticism: Subversion and Transcendence in Latin American Modernista Prose by Nancy LaGreca

Reviewed by: Erotic Mysticism: Subversion and Transcendence in Latin American Modernista Prose by Nancy LaGreca Kelly Comfort LaGreca, Nancy. Erotic Mysticism: Subversion and Transcendence in Latin American Modernista Prose. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2016. 179 pp. Nancy LaGreca's Erotic Mysticism: Subversion and Transcendence in Latin American Modernista Prose examines what she terms the "double threat" of mysticism and eroticism. In her introduction, she posits that modernista writers "sought to win over the souls of their readers by offering a new religion of ecstatic and aesthetic pleasure" in which "erotic mysticism" functions as "an alternative means of salvation . . . unattached to systematized codes of ethics and behaviors" (16). In the selected texts—all prose works from underrepresented Latin American modernista writers—LaGreca locates a focus on the "I" introspectively, rather than egotistically, and underscores the importance of "intimate and hidden states" in the "non-theistic, sensual, ecstatic dissolution of the self" (21–22). In an effort to demonstrate how and why the two forces of mysticism and eroticism are intimately intertwined in modernista prose, LaGreca dedicates chapter one to a discussion of the two discourses against which they unite, namely positivism and Catholicism. This chapter thus serves to establish background and context for the rest of the study. LaGreca highlights positivism's interest in controlling erotic desire so as to ensure the health of the nation through government-approved reproductive practices and then notes the ways in which modernista discourse sought to expand notions of sexual instinct and erotic pleasure beyond the heteronormative. LaGreca also examines the rhetoric of Catholic propaganda that offered followers the hereafter and promised contact with the divine. She argues that the modernistas demonstrated varied preference for pagan, pre-Christian, Nietzschean, and monistic mysticism as alternatives to Catholicism and located "the key to immortality" in "ecstatic transcendence inspired by art, beauty, the lusty sensuality of nature, and earthly pleasures" (43). In chapter two, LaGreca examines the prominent theories of non-theistic mysticism in the essayistic prose of Mexico's Carlos Díaz Dufoo and Venezuela's Manuel Díaz Rodríguez, while she dedicates chapter three to the study of the popular yet critically understudied novel Resurección by the well-known Colombian statesman José María Rivas Groot. In Díaz Dufoo's essays and short stories written for the famous modernista journal Revista Azul, LaGreca discovers "seminal theoretical documents of the mystical tendency" that describe "the vague deification of sensual beauty and erotic pleasure, detached from both positivism and Christianity" (40). In her analysis of Díaz Rodríguez, LaGreca traces his mysticism back to its Greek roots and shows how he disassociated mysticism from Christianity and linked it to pagan occult rituals tied to nature as well as to Platonic ideas and a vitalistic Dionysian mysticism as outlined in Nietzsche. According to LaGreca, Díaz Rodríguez "privileges the erotic and celebrates physicality," while his "bodily approach to life and art is in fact spiritual" (75–76). Rivas Groot proposes an alternative form of "resurrection" achieved through "erotic rapture, art, and nature" in which "hopes for salvation" stem from "the beauty of nature and the arts" (97, 41, 91). Writing during the Catholic Regeneration regime in Colombia (1886-99), which made Catholicism the official state religion and promoted ultra-conservative [End Page 715] policies, Rivas Groot explores overlapping discourses such as the cult of beauty, the divinization of the arts, and a return to pre-Christian nontheistic mysticism, ideas that closely parallel those explored in chapter two, as well as a new emphasis on non-heteronormative eroticization. LaGreca characterizes Rivas Groot's erotic mysticism as "an inner ecstatic divinity" that elevates and empowers the individual "by tapping into one's inner 'god'—creativity—which leads to meaningful and beautiful works of art" (101). She also highlights the novel's sublimated homoeroticism, in which the male artists find a divine savior not just in Margot, their common muse, but also in the artistic masterpieces they make upon her death (103). Her analysis of these three authors often describes what might be more appropriately termed "Aesthetic Mysticism" or "Aesthetic Eroticism." Consider, for example, her discussion of Díaz Dufoo's emphasis on the...

Slavery food, soul food, salvation food: veganism and identity in the African Hebrew Israelite Community

ABSTRACTThis paper reviews the transformation of meaning of food items central to African American fare from symbols of slavery to means of salvation as the African Hebrew Israelite Community (AHIC) live out their Biblically inspired lifestyle and perfect the vegan diet at its core. Although originating in Chicago in the late 1960s, for over 40 years the institutional and residential base of this transnational millenarian community has been in the Israeli desert town of Dimona. Based on long-term ethnographic acquaintance with their foodways in Israel and in the US, our analysis follows the AHIC’s eclectic incorporation of circulating religious, political, and scientific theories into their Bible-based cosmological-nutritional tenets of regenerative health and spiritual salvation. We argue that their ‘Edenic Diet’ reacts to the traumatic history of African Americans as slaves and as a discriminated against minority in the US, by serving as a means in their struggle for place and acceptance in modern Israel and an active component in their social and spiritual plans for the future.