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Does religious belief impact philosophical analysis? [PDF]
, 2016 One popular conception of natural theology holds that certain purely rational arguments are insulated from empirical inquiry and independently establish conclusions that provide evidence, justification, or proof of God’s existence.
Tobia, Kevin P.
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THEOLOGICAL NATURALISM AND THE NATURE OF RELIGION: ON NOT BEGGING THE QUESTION
Zygon, 1987 . Too many theologies beg the question about the nature of religion by building metaphysically substantive assumptions into its description. Typically these assumptions are: the object of religious devotion must be both absolute and personal, final ...
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Limit Conditions in an Encounter of Theology with Neuroscience [PDF]
, 2012 Insofar as theology is responsible to its religious sources, it seeks to answer religious questions, such as, for Christians, \"What must I do to be saved?\" However, theology also involves asking whether such a question is the right one at all.
Irvine, Andrew
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
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Response to Rambachan\u27s The Advaita Worldview and Thatamanil\u27s The Immanent Divine [PDF]
, 2009 In light of postcolonial and feminist criticism, it has become good form for scholars to locate themselves with regard to their subject matter by laying out their values and presuppositions to the extent possible.
Roberts, Michelle Voss
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
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The Paradox of the Self and its Implications for Concepts of Personhood: Contrasting Contemporary Theological and Psychological Approaches to an Old Problem [PDF]
, 2012 It is a widely accepted principle in both theology and the human sciences that the self, though each person perceives him- or herself as a singularity, is also characterized by multiplicity.
Turner, Léon
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Defining and assessing spiritual health : a comparative study among 13- to 15-year-old pupils attending secular schools, Anglican schools, and private Christian schools in England and Wales [PDF]
, 2012 This article argues that the nation's commitment to young people involves proper concern for their physical health, their psychological health, and their spiritual health.
Astley J. +29 more
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Survey research in practical theology and congregational studies
Acta Theologica, 2015 Empirical research is understood as the search for knowledge-based empirical data. The best-known data-based research strategy is survey research. In practical theology, survey research is probably one of the most used research strategies.
C. Hermans, W. J. Schoeman
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, 2004 The conception of metaphoric process elaborated by Mary Gerhart and Allan Russell illuminates a key mechanism often involved in the most significant advances in science and religion.
Burrell David +6 more
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