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Skeptical and Spiritual Atheisms [PDF]

Skeptical atheism is deeply concerned with the development of a true atheistic belief-system which competes with allegedly false theistic belief-systems.
Steinhart, Eric
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Palamism Does Not Disfigure the Gospel: A Reply to Thomas Weinandy

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In a 2024 article in the IJST, Fr. Thomas Weinandy argues that the theological system of Gregory Palamas is in grave error, especially with respect to its commitment to an objective ontological distinction between God's essence and His energies. In his concluding paragraph Fr.
Travis Dumsday
wiley   +1 more source

Salvaging Pascal’s Wager [PDF]

, 2019
Many think that Pascal’s Wager is a hopeless failure. A primary reason for this is because a number of challenging objections have been raised to the wager, including the “many gods” objection and the “mixed strategy” objection.
Jackson, Elizabeth, Rogers, Andrew
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Good Public Theology is Twilight Theology. A Constructive Deconstruction of Public Theology

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article outlines the basic features of a good public theology that is inspired by Paul’s description of the situation of the church and Christians: ‘The night has passed, the day is not far distant’ (Rom 13:12). In his analysis of the present, the author identifies eight specific challenges of contemporary culture – challenges that have so
Günter Thomas
wiley   +1 more source

Jean-Paul Sartre: Mystical Atheist or Mystical Antipathist? [PDF]

, 2013
Jean-Paul Sartre is rarely discussed in the philosophy of religion. In 2009, however, Jerome Gellman broke the silence, publishing an article in which he argued that the source of Sartre’s atheism was neither philosophical nor existential, but mystical ...
Kirkpatrick, Kate
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Inventing the Enlightenment: Anti-Jacobins, British Hegelians, and the Oxford English Dictionary [PDF]

, 2003
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Schmidt, James
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Theological Doctrines as Scientific Theories? Thinking along with and beyond McGrath

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract McGrath's recent analysis of the parallels between scientific theory formation and the development of theological doctrine in The Nature of Christian Doctrine (OUP, 2024) is insightful and largely compelling, but also raises some questions and areas for further exploration. First, there is a remarkable back‐and‐forth between uses of ‘doctrine’
Gijsbert van den Brink
wiley   +1 more source

A modest plea for a Chestertonian reading of The Monstrosity of Christ [PDF]

, 2017
Review of John Milbank and Slavoj Žižek, The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic (Cambridge: MIT Press ...
Marika Rose
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Doctrine, Narrative and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Conversation with Alister McGrath

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers a critical and appreciative response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine, exploring the formation of doctrine as a dynamic communal process rooted in Scripture, liturgy and historical context. It highlights McGrath’s analogy between doctrinal development and scientific method, emphasising the search for a ...
Frances Margaret Young
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Wittgenstein and the Possibility of Religious Belief [PDF]

, 2003
Contemporary philosophers of religion delimiting their field\ud often distinguish between belief in and belief that, and then\ud focus on the latter as more pertinent to a philosophical\ud investigation of religious belief.
Sayre, Patricia
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