Rethinking Theology: The Shadow of the
... kingdom. In light of what Jacob tells us, that theology must go beyond mere learning to allow the things of God to be opened or revealed to us. Our theology must be a figure of the Apocalypse, a theology that reveals God himself, even if only as a figure, rather than revealing only our current parti ...
... kingdom. In light of what Jacob tells us, that theology must go beyond mere learning to allow the things of God to be opened or revealed to us. Our theology must be a figure of the Apocalypse, a theology that reveals God himself, even if only as a figure, rather than revealing only our current parti ...
Pragmatism Lite - NYU Philosophy
... what beliefs are or a point about how beliefs are caused. Menand never sufficiently recognizes the ambiguity, and consequently he trips over it. On the first reading, pragmatism’s central claim would be that beliefs are tools, and hence can be evaluated coherently only in terms of their utility and ...
... what beliefs are or a point about how beliefs are caused. Menand never sufficiently recognizes the ambiguity, and consequently he trips over it. On the first reading, pragmatism’s central claim would be that beliefs are tools, and hence can be evaluated coherently only in terms of their utility and ...
Be Wary of Ware: A Reply to Bruce Ware
... traditional Arminianism. All criticisms come from a particular point of view, so it is important to state Ware’s perspective right off the bat: he is a strong Calvinist neo-evangelical in the Calvinist scholastic tradition. 1 Ware’s God is one who controls every single detail of what we do, includin ...
... traditional Arminianism. All criticisms come from a particular point of view, so it is important to state Ware’s perspective right off the bat: he is a strong Calvinist neo-evangelical in the Calvinist scholastic tradition. 1 Ware’s God is one who controls every single detail of what we do, includin ...
J.N. Chubb, "Spinoza`s Arguments for the Existence of God,"
... arbitrary definitions and then building up a system by drawing consequences from them have completely missed the intention underlying Spinoza's argument. Every_ 'definition' given by Spinoza expresses an intellectual insight, an insight not merely into the nature of things, as Spinoza thought, but a ...
... arbitrary definitions and then building up a system by drawing consequences from them have completely missed the intention underlying Spinoza's argument. Every_ 'definition' given by Spinoza expresses an intellectual insight, an insight not merely into the nature of things, as Spinoza thought, but a ...
Class #5 - 1/15/14
... limited in their ability to love and serve God by differing levels of intelligence or knowledge. • In his view of Human Nature, note that Love and Service to God trumps Reason !!! • Question for the class: Does this view contradict the previously asserted suggestion in the class that it is best to s ...
... limited in their ability to love and serve God by differing levels of intelligence or knowledge. • In his view of Human Nature, note that Love and Service to God trumps Reason !!! • Question for the class: Does this view contradict the previously asserted suggestion in the class that it is best to s ...
Maimonides on Free Will - The Metaphysical Society of America
... Maimonides, a native of Cordoba, Spain, belonged to the school of Aristotle and his Muslin interpreters, notably al Farabi, Avicenna and Averroes. In all of his writings, philosophical as well as halakhic, Maimonides took science and philosophy, which he often refers to simply as “wisdom” as the med ...
... Maimonides, a native of Cordoba, Spain, belonged to the school of Aristotle and his Muslin interpreters, notably al Farabi, Avicenna and Averroes. In all of his writings, philosophical as well as halakhic, Maimonides took science and philosophy, which he often refers to simply as “wisdom” as the med ...
What is Transcendentalism?
... authors and poets and philosophers together so that they deserved this categorical name, Transcendentalists. And so, if you're at this page because you're having difficulty: you're not alone. Here's what I've learned since high school about this subject. The Transcendentalists can be understood in o ...
... authors and poets and philosophers together so that they deserved this categorical name, Transcendentalists. And so, if you're at this page because you're having difficulty: you're not alone. Here's what I've learned since high school about this subject. The Transcendentalists can be understood in o ...
On the first episode of a television parody of the dominant style of
... certainties of modernity, themselves mimicking the theological absolutes they meant to supercede, continue quite unceremoniously to collapse. Truth has indeed seemed not only elusive but uninteresting--or rather, merely interested. So the tedium seems to have been characterized among thinking people ...
... certainties of modernity, themselves mimicking the theological absolutes they meant to supercede, continue quite unceremoniously to collapse. Truth has indeed seemed not only elusive but uninteresting--or rather, merely interested. So the tedium seems to have been characterized among thinking people ...
FIVE MAIN REASONS WHY I NO LONGER PRACTICE HATHA YOGA!
... Christian believers with a pure doctrinal stance. However, if the teacher of the class is involved in the philosophy behind the entire yogic system, there will be a subliminal spiritual transference from the teacher to the student that is likely not the true Spirit of God and can be very misleading. ...
... Christian believers with a pure doctrinal stance. However, if the teacher of the class is involved in the philosophy behind the entire yogic system, there will be a subliminal spiritual transference from the teacher to the student that is likely not the true Spirit of God and can be very misleading. ...
necessity, control, and the divine command theory
... A second option for the DCT defender is to claim that God’s commands are neither right nor wrong, because he neither commanded nor forbidden those commands. Little can be said for this position, because some of those commands look right (forbidding aldultery and murder, commanding that the poor be c ...
... A second option for the DCT defender is to claim that God’s commands are neither right nor wrong, because he neither commanded nor forbidden those commands. Little can be said for this position, because some of those commands look right (forbidding aldultery and murder, commanding that the poor be c ...
The Plight of Aesthetics in Iran
... religion and science, and argues that because of these purposes religion and science do not have a connection. Stephen Jay Gould says that while religion and science are inseparable, there is no convergence between the two. I have suggested ways to understand their arguments and still allow for a co ...
... religion and science, and argues that because of these purposes religion and science do not have a connection. Stephen Jay Gould says that while religion and science are inseparable, there is no convergence between the two. I have suggested ways to understand their arguments and still allow for a co ...
Quantum Mechanics and Divine Action
... of our concept of “moral good.” While most theists would agree that God has some influence on our standard of good, there is disagreement as to the nature of his involvement. The conflict generally goes like this: in setting moral standards, is God reinforcing the objective facts of what is right, f ...
... of our concept of “moral good.” While most theists would agree that God has some influence on our standard of good, there is disagreement as to the nature of his involvement. The conflict generally goes like this: in setting moral standards, is God reinforcing the objective facts of what is right, f ...
Metaphysics As Speculative Nonsense
... is relevant to their truth? This would be odd, since the core of the claim is that something was the case, not that it is now. So Ayer argues that claims about the past are claims that certain observations would have been possible or occurred under certain conditions. GETTING RID OF METAPHYSICS The ...
... is relevant to their truth? This would be odd, since the core of the claim is that something was the case, not that it is now. So Ayer argues that claims about the past are claims that certain observations would have been possible or occurred under certain conditions. GETTING RID OF METAPHYSICS The ...
Enlightenment in Western and Islamic traditions: Which tradition
... concept of sacredness was also neglected. Rather any change was welcomed. By the end of the nineteenth century many people anticipated that the earth will become a paradise once all scientific discoveries would take place. In the twentieth century the real failures of enlightenment showed up. The re ...
... concept of sacredness was also neglected. Rather any change was welcomed. By the end of the nineteenth century many people anticipated that the earth will become a paradise once all scientific discoveries would take place. In the twentieth century the real failures of enlightenment showed up. The re ...
The Logical Argument is not Bankrupt
... who, while free with respect to every action they perform, nonetheless always choose good over evil. (Plantinga, 339) A person is said to free with respect to an action if she is free to perform or refrain from performing an action; there are no conditions or causal laws determining her choice here. ...
... who, while free with respect to every action they perform, nonetheless always choose good over evil. (Plantinga, 339) A person is said to free with respect to an action if she is free to perform or refrain from performing an action; there are no conditions or causal laws determining her choice here. ...
Kazantzakis` Making of God: A Study in Literature and Philosophy
... is working through him, and struggling to be freed through him as a vehicle. He has found an efficient way to affirm both that he is god and that he is not god; that he is immensely powerful and yet painfully finite; that he is torn by struggle and yet is a privileged node of unity in which converge ...
... is working through him, and struggling to be freed through him as a vehicle. He has found an efficient way to affirm both that he is god and that he is not god; that he is immensely powerful and yet painfully finite; that he is torn by struggle and yet is a privileged node of unity in which converge ...
Religious values. Relation between intrinsic and extrinsic values
... or attitude about the world. The values reside in the supreme being, but they are not without reference to mankind. They are not barren and purposeless from a human point of view. To be more precise, the social orientation of their religious world view have made values conditioned upon its utility t ...
... or attitude about the world. The values reside in the supreme being, but they are not without reference to mankind. They are not barren and purposeless from a human point of view. To be more precise, the social orientation of their religious world view have made values conditioned upon its utility t ...
Transcendentalism
... prominent New England intellectuals including George Putnam, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Frederick Henry Hedge. From 1840, the group published frequently in their journal The Dial, along with other venues. The movement was originally termed "Transcendentalists" as a pejorative term, suggesting their po ...
... prominent New England intellectuals including George Putnam, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Frederick Henry Hedge. From 1840, the group published frequently in their journal The Dial, along with other venues. The movement was originally termed "Transcendentalists" as a pejorative term, suggesting their po ...
which you can here
... Above all are they to be considered as retaining an ‘equal title to the free exercise of Religion according to the dictates of conscience.’ [Virginia Declaration of Rights, Art. 16] Whilst we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess and to observe the Religion which we believe to be of ...
... Above all are they to be considered as retaining an ‘equal title to the free exercise of Religion according to the dictates of conscience.’ [Virginia Declaration of Rights, Art. 16] Whilst we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess and to observe the Religion which we believe to be of ...
Proving God Exists
... God’s Purpose The philosophers have different ideas regarding the role of God in relation to humanity and the world. In chapter five of his Proslogion, Anselm identifies God’s primary role as the creator of all things from nothing. God’s secondary role is to exemplify what is good and just. “Only w ...
... God’s Purpose The philosophers have different ideas regarding the role of God in relation to humanity and the world. In chapter five of his Proslogion, Anselm identifies God’s primary role as the creator of all things from nothing. God’s secondary role is to exemplify what is good and just. “Only w ...
Essay no. 40
... Both philosophers we´re wrong. Firstly because in a Sartrean vision our essence, our personality etc., only comes about after our existence. So we can´t all be innately good or bad. Also because good and bad are judgments that other people create about us and this is never what we truly are. Secondl ...
... Both philosophers we´re wrong. Firstly because in a Sartrean vision our essence, our personality etc., only comes about after our existence. So we can´t all be innately good or bad. Also because good and bad are judgments that other people create about us and this is never what we truly are. Secondl ...
THE PRINCIPLE OF EQUIVALENCY: AN ANALYSIS OF THE
... True, the evangelic message of a God of love who delivers man by reinvigorating him with new spiritual power might still help us even if the Jesus of the New Testament should disappear in the crucible of historical criticism. The religious conception of the universe built u p by Christian experience ...
... True, the evangelic message of a God of love who delivers man by reinvigorating him with new spiritual power might still help us even if the Jesus of the New Testament should disappear in the crucible of historical criticism. The religious conception of the universe built u p by Christian experience ...
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... contradiction is not subsequent to God. If one should say that logic is dependent on God’s thinking, it is dependent only in the sense that it is the characteristic of God’s thinking. It is not subsequent temporarlly, for God is eternal and there never was a time when God existed without thinking lo ...
... contradiction is not subsequent to God. If one should say that logic is dependent on God’s thinking, it is dependent only in the sense that it is the characteristic of God’s thinking. It is not subsequent temporarlly, for God is eternal and there never was a time when God existed without thinking lo ...
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... contradiction is not subsequent to God. If one should say that logic is dependent on God’s thinking, it is dependent only in the sense that it is the characteristic of God’s thinking. It is not subsequent temporally, for God is eternal and there never was a time when God existed without thinking log ...
... contradiction is not subsequent to God. If one should say that logic is dependent on God’s thinking, it is dependent only in the sense that it is the characteristic of God’s thinking. It is not subsequent temporally, for God is eternal and there never was a time when God existed without thinking log ...