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Is embracing metaphysical determinism or free will a better response to suffering?

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
Metaphysical determinism argues that God divinely predetermines everything, including human suffering. Contrary to metaphysical determinism, free will or libertarianism argues that not everything is predetermined by God.
Aku S. Antombikums
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Divine Simplicity and The Myth of Modal Collapse: An Islamic Neoplatonic Response

European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2022
This paper responds to the modal collapse argument against divine simplicity or classical theism offered by neo-classical or complex theists. The modal collapse argument claims that if God is both absolutely simple and absolutely necessary, then God’s ...
Khalil Andani
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Logical Positivism and Carnap's Confirmability on the Meaningfulness of Religious Language [PDF]

, 2018
Due to their acceptance of the verifiability principle, the only way left for logical positivists to argue for the meaningfulness of religious language was to accept some sort of emotivistic conception of it or to reduce it to the description of ...
Oya, Alberto
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Theological Implications of the Simulation Argument [PDF]

, 2010
Nick Bostrom’s Simulation Argument (SA) has many intriguing theological implications. We work out some of them here. We show how the SA can be used to develop novel versions of the Cosmological and Design Arguments. We then develop some of the affinities
Steinhart, Eric
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'Do You Believe in God, Doctor?' The Atheism of Fiction and the Fiction of Atheism. [PDF]

Sophia, 2021
Nair RB.
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Arguing from Molinism to Neo-Molinism [PDF]

, 2015
In a pair of recent essays, William Lane Craig has argued that certain open theist understandings of the nature of the future are both semantically and modally confused.
Hess, Elijah
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For Kantians Only? Arthur Petersen on Transcendental Naturalism, Climate Change, and God

Zygon
In this article, after expressing my appreciation for the novelty, timeliness, and openness of Arthur Petersen’s approach in his Climate, God and Uncertainty, I discuss a main concern raised by the book, namely, its heavy reliance on a Kantian dualism ...
Gijsbert van den Brink
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Explaining costly religious practices: credibility enhancing displays and signaling theories. [PDF]

Synthese, 2022
Brusse C, Handfield T, Zollman KJS.
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Objectivity, Values, And The Christian Librarian

, 2001
The central questions of Christian librarianship in the postmodern world involve the philosophical grounds of collection development. Are there reliable objective grounds for attempting to build balanced collections?
Baker, Steve
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Philosophy in the science classroom: How should biology teachers explain the relationship between science and religion to students? [PDF]

Cult Stud Sci Educ, 2020
Woodford PJ.
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