A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF THE UNDERSTANDING OF GOD IN J.S. MBITI’S THEOLOGY
Acta Theologica, 2017 This article investigates how Mbiti articulates the theological reflections on the understanding of God from an African perspective. Mbiti systematises data of the African concepts of God in a set of Western Christian doctrinal systems. He presupposes a
Y Han, Jaco Beyers
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Allameh Hilli and Thomas Aquinas on semantics of divine attributes [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2014 One of the major issues in the names and attributes of God, is the semantic interpretation of how to interpret and apply the concepts and predicates that talk about God.
hasan abasi hossein Abadi
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Whitehead’s organismic conception of God and its religious availability [PDF]
SCHOLE, 2007 The author focuses in his article on the problem of God’s religious availability and sees Whitehead’s organismic theory of God as a correction of Aristotle’s barren conception of a Prime Mover.
Bargeliotes, Leonidas
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A sociological approach to the concept of God amongst Iranian youth
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2011 One of the most fundamental concepts in Sociology of Religion, the concept of God, was emphasised in this article. Although the God concept is not the same as the transcendental existence of God, it is this concept that is the most fundamental social ...
Mina Safa, Habib Ahmadi
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Сonceptual basis of representation of the image of God in early medieval English literature [PDF]
Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2018 The article carries out research into direct and indirect nominations of God in early medieval linguoculture and puts forward an argument that extended network of synonyms denoting God results from peculiarities of ancient poetic style as well as ...
Tomberg Olga V.
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Descartes’ Ontological Proof: An Interpretation and Defense [PDF]
, 2012 It is widely assumed among contemporary philosophers that Descartes’ version of ontological proof, among other weaknesses, makes an impossible and unjustified move from the mental world of concepts to the real world of things.
Judycki, Stanisław
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The concept “God” (case study: phraseological units in the English, Russian, Tatar and Turkish languages) [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2019 The concept is represented as a unity of perceptions, representations, and assessments existing in the communal and individual linguistic consciousness and can be expressed at all language levels, characterizing English, Russian, Tatar and Turkish ...
Bazarova L.V. +2 more
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God, religion and death in the essays and novels of Ernesto Sabato [PDF]
Sinteze, 2020 The paper is entirely dedicated to the way of looking at concepts of God, religion and death in essays and novels of Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato. The intention is to present the manner in which the relationship with God can be defined both in the ...
Čanović Ana R.
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An Inconvenient Truth: What the Bible Says about God’s Way with the Animals
ZygonAt first sight, the philosophical concept of a God characterized by omnipotence, omniscience, and benevolence is incompatible with a creation in which animals suffer.
Pieter Slootweg
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The Effect of Supernatural Priming on Cheating Behaviour
Religions, 2020 Research has shown that the mental activation of concepts related to supernatural agents (e.g., God, ghost) is capable of altering one’s moral behaviours.
Patrick K. F. Lin, Lidia Suárez
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