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DIVINE DESIGN AND EVOLUTIONARY EVIL
In this article, I first interpret and evaluate the main argument of E. V. R. Kojonen's book, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design. I then address a challenge against this argument (as well as against design arguments in general), namely, the ...
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Reformatoriese toetrede tot die derde golf van bydraes oor die Triniteit
A reformational entry into the third wave of contributions on the Trinity: There has been a so called renaissance in theological studies on the Trinity in the last century.
Cornelius A. Swanepoel
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Islamic Environmentalism and Epistemic Waste
ABSTRACT Environmental ethics is concerned with how humans use and relate to the environment, including its conservation and protection. In recent decades, works on Islamic environmentalism have increased multiplied with efforts to ground an ethics based on the resources of the Islamic scholarly tradition.
Aysenur Cam
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A Probabilistic Defense of Proper De Jure Objections to Theism [PDF]
A common view among nontheists combines the de jure objection that theism is epistemically unacceptable with agnosticism about the de facto objection that theism is false.
Barnett, Brian C.
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“God’s Acting upon the World” – A Meta-metaphysical Perspective
There may be good theological reasons for adopting one or the other of the two “God-world”-relations: “God’s acting upon the world” vs. “God’s not acting upon the world”, from a philosophical/metaphysical point of view, these options pose a “decision ...
Christina Schneider
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Lessons from the void: What Boltzmann brains teach
Abstract Some physical theories predict that almost all brains in the universe are Boltzmann brains, that is, short‐lived disembodied brains that are accidentally assembled as a result of thermodynamic or quantum fluctuations. Physicists and philosophers of physics widely regard this proliferation as unacceptable, and so take its prediction as a basis ...
Bradford Saad
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Neoclassical Theism and the Problem of Foreknowledge and Passibility
Though it is often not recognized, there are multiple models of God being affirmed and debated throughout the history of philosophical theology. In contemporary discussion, we have developed labels for these models such as classical theism, neoclassical
Ryan T. Mullins
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Nietzsche at the Deathbed: the Eternal Recurrence as a Counter to the ‘Preaching of Death’
Abstract In recent scholarship, the dominant reading of Nietzsche’s concept of the eternal recurrence has been as a thought experiment. This paper responds to this in two ways. First, this paper relocates eternal recurrence in the context of Nietzsche’s abiding concern with the ‘preaching of death’, a powerful, life‐negating weapon of the ascetic ...
Mark Higgins
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Do possible worlds compromise God’s beauty? A reply to Mark Ian Thomas Robson [PDF]
In a recent article Mark Ian Thomas Robson argues that there is a clear contradiction between the view that possible worlds are a part of God's nature and the theologically pivotal, but philosophically neglected, claim that God is perfectly beautiful. In
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Can Contemporary Science Inspire Philosophical and Theological Reflection on Causality?The cooperation between natural science, philosophy, and theology in an analysis of the causal structure and co-dependency of entities in the universe seems to be both
Mariusz Tabaczek
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