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Metaphysical Rationalism [PDF]

, 2019
Material from this paper appears in Chap. 7 of my book Reason and Being, but there is also stuff here that isn't in the book. In particular, it discusses the claims that, for Spinoza, conceiving implies explaining and that existence is identical to or ...
Lin, Martin
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An Introduction to Semiotics and Ontological, Epistemological and Classicological Manifestations of Divine Names in World and Humans [PDF]

تحقیقات اطلاع‌رسانی و کتابخانه‌های عمومی, 2019
Purpose: To assess the feasibility of the classification of the Divine Names mentioned in Qur’an, Nahj al-Balagha and Mafatih al-Jinan  according to their forms and meanings.
gholamreza fadaee
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Early-Modern Irreligion and Theological Analogy: A Response to Gavin Hyman’s A Short History of Atheism [PDF]

, 2016
Historically, many Christians have understood God’s transcendence to imply God’s properties categorically differ from any created properties. For multiple historical figures, a problem arose for religious language: how can one talk of God at all if none ...
Linford, Dan
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Difficulties of Simplicity [PDF]

, 2017
This paper attempts to show that the doctrine of divine simplicity suffers from difficulties which undermine its plausibility. The main difficulties explored are Plantinga’s problem of double identification, Pruss’ multiple attributes problem, and ...
Bradley, Cody M
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Schleiermacher and Otto on religion : a reappraisal [PDF]

, 2008
An interpretation of the work of Schleiermacher and Otto recently offered by Andrew Dole, according to which these two thinkers differed over the extent to which religion can be explained naturalistically, and over the sense in which the supernatural can
Smith, A. D. (Arthur David)
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The Principle of Analogy [PDF]

, 2006
The Principle of Analogy. ABSTRACT. Sceptics question whether ‘distinctively human’ predicates such as ‘just’, ‘loving’ and ‘powerful’ can intelligibly be attributed to a divine being.
Bunting, Harry
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Philosophical Theology and Indian Versions of Theodicy [PDF]

, 2010
Comparative philosophical studies can seek to fit some Eastern patterns of thought into the general philosophical framework, or, on the contrary, to improve understanding of Western ones through the view "from abroad". I try to hit both marks by means of
Shokhin, Vladimir K.
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Criticism and Examination of Ibn Arabi and Molla Sadra and Allame Tabatabaei’s Approaches in Semantics of Divine Attributes [PDF]

حکمت معاصر, 2012
Semantic of Divine attributes and names is one of the key doctrinal issues in philosophy of religion, philosophy, kalam, mysticism and contemporary scholars.
Reza Berenjkar, Hossein Hojjatkhah
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Kesinambungan Akidah al-Ash’ari terhadap Pendekatan Salaf al-Salih dalam Persoalan Sifat [PDF]

International Journal of Islamic Thought, 2019
Imam al-Ash’ari, a prominent Muslim theologian, has contributed significantly to the development of the Sunnite creed. His approach of using reason in defending Islamic theology has put a strong and solid foundation in facing the challenge of the Muslim ...
MOHD HAIDHAR KAMARZAMAN
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Spinoza and the problem of other substances [PDF]

, 2019
Most of Spinoza’s arguments for God’s existence do not rely on any special feature of God, but instead on merely general features of substance. This raises the following worry: those arguments prove the existence of non-divine substances just as much as ...
Barry, Galen
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