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THEISTIC NATURALISM AND “SPECIAL” DIVINE PROVIDENCE

open access: yesZygon, 2009
Although naturalistic perspectives are an important component of their accounts of divine action, most participants in the current dialogue between science and theology eschew a purely naturalistic model.
doaj   +4 more sources

Features requirement elicitation process for designing a chatbot application

open access: yesIET Networks, EarlyView., 2022
This article seeks to assist the chatbot community by outlining the characteristics that a chatbot needs to possess and explaining how to create a chatbot for a bank. In order to determine which capabilities are most crucial to ending users, a study of a small sample of chatbot users was conducted.
Nurul Muizzah Johari   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ketidaksetujuan terhadap Interpretasi Pendamaian Stoa dan Kekristenan dalam Pemikiran Justus Lipsius

open access: yesMedia, 2023
Justus Lipsius drew up an intellectual project to reconcile stoic thought with Christianity. In this project, Lipsius started with two assumptions.
Yohanes Theo
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Providentia Missio Dei amid Adverse Global Conflicts [PDF]

open access: yesE-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies
Since its reinterpretation in the second half of the 20th century, the Missio Dei has become a primary missiological framework that embraces human redemption as the direct work or by-product of God’s intervention.
Jonas Sello Thinane
doaj   +1 more source

Rozwój nauki i kultu «Matki Bożej Opatrzności»

open access: yesWrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny, 2010
The above title was not directly derived from the Holy Scripture. It is difficult to determine who first used it or which prevailed in the history of the Church: teaching about the Mother of Divine Providence or Her cult.
Adam Wojtczak
doaj   +1 more source

Is God Good? Aquinas, Śamkara, Abhinavagupta, Balinese Śaivism, and the Problematics of the Argument from Evil [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The problem of evil--as opposed to the argument from evil--is an ancient one, but it was not initially formulated as an argument in support of atheism. God\u27s existence was taken for granted, and on that basis thinkers like Augustine engaged an serious
Nelson, Lance E.
core   +2 more sources

The Adaptation and Development of the Proclean Notion of Κατάβασις: From Proclus to Maximus the Confessor

open access: yesReligions, 2021
This paper examines the impact of Proclus’ notion of divine descent, i.e., κατάβασις, on the formation of core theological doctrines in Pseudo-Dionysius and Maximus the Confessor.
Kyeongyoon Woo
doaj   +1 more source

Taking chances: Gambling and Providence in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice

open access: yesEtudes Epistémè, 2021
In this article I wish to explore how the pervading references to games in William Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice pave the way for a reflection on the respective roles of chance, providence and human agency in shaping the characters’ destiny.
Louise Fang
doaj   +1 more source

Creation and Divine Providence in Plotinus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this paper, we argue that Plotinus denies deliberative forethought about the physical cosmos to the demiurge on the basis of certain basic and widely shared Platonic and Aristotelian assumptions about the character of divine thought.
Noble, Christopher, Powers, Nathan
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Inquiry on the Contradictory of Human Free Will and Divine Destiny in Ibn Sina's philosophy [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Philosophical Investigations, 2022
Some philosophical-theological conflicts in the topic of A priori science, God's will and omnipotence with the issue of compulsion and human free will are still debated by commentators and experts.
Somayeh Heyran   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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