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Atheists’ Challenge to Cosmological Arguments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this paper I intend to identify some points of disagreement between theism and atheism. I will try to point out three epistemological clashes occurring in the controversial treatment of cosmological arguments.
Clavier, Paul
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Varieties of Spiritual Sense: Cusanus and John Smith [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This chapter offers a window into the theologies of Cusanus and the Cambridge Platonist John Smith (1618–52) by illuminating their contrasting appropriations of Origen’s concept of the spiritual senses.
Michaud, Derek
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The Problem of God’s Existence: In Defence of Skepticism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
There are four main positions in the argument about whether God exists: atheism, theism, agnosticism, and scepticism. From an epistemological standpoint, scepticism is the most rational; even if a decisive argument which would settle the debate has not ...
Ziemiński, Ireneusz
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Embodied Mystery, Spiritual Deepness: Paradoxes of the Heart Inside a Spirituality of Purification

open access: yesReligions
Drawing on patristic sources and modern Orthodox authors, this paper explores the paradoxes of the heart as the deepest and most hidden place of the human being. The heart can be both the highest and deepest point of an encounter with God, as well as the
Georgiana Huian
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Researching the Teaching Context: Faithful Practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Christian teachers are called to a teaching practice that is biblically grounded or based on a biblical world and life view, but can the same imperative be applied to those wishing to conduct research in Christian education contexts? This paper considers
Beech, Geoff
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Argument from Chance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In the article, first I present the atheistic argument from pointless evil and the argument from chance. The essence of the argument from chance consists in the incompatibility of the existence of purposeless events and the existence of a God who planned
Łukasiewicz, Dariusz
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Divine Energies: The Consuming Fire and the Beatific Vision [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
I argue that a comprehensive ontological assessment of the beatific vision suggests that an individual’s experience of God’s face is not merely dependent on a revelation of the divine energies, but that it requires a particular mode of reception on the ...
Holdier, A. G.
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An Evaluation of Skeptical Theism

open access: yesSvensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 2013
One of the most influential and frequently addressed responses to the evidential argument from Evil and divine hiddenness is advocated by so called skeptical theists, who claim that we are cognitively ill-equipped to know Gods reasons for permitting ...
Francis Jonsson
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The Phenomenal Conservative Approach to Religious Epistemology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In this chapter, we argue for a phenomenal conservative perspective on religious epistemology and attempt to answer some common criticisms of this ...
Gage, Logan Paul, McAllister, Blake
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