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The Phenomenal Conservative Approach to Religious Epistemology [PDF]

, 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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Thomas Hooker, Martin Luther, and the Terror at the Edge of Protestant Faith

, 2015
Unlike their Roman Catholic counterparts, early Protestants insisted that individual Christians could be certain that they personally enjoyed God’s favor and would be saved. Their faith in Christ’s redeeming work would give them “assurance of salvation,”
Tipson, Baird L.
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Atheists’ Challenge to Cosmological Arguments [PDF]

, 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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Evil, Hiddenness, and Nonbelief in Abū al-Barakāt al-Baghdādī’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes:

TheoLogica
The problem of evil has consistently challenged theistic belief. This challenge appears in both contemporary and medieval philosophical sources, including those written by Jewish and Muslim philosophers and theologians.
Bakinaz Abdalla
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Moral Imaginative Resistance to Heaven: Why the Problem of Evil is So Intractable [PDF]

, 2018
The majority of philosophers of religion, at least since Plantinga’s reply to Mackie’s logical problem of evil, agree that it is logically possible for an omnibenevolent, omniscient, and omnipotent God to exist who permits ...
Kramer, Chris
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Poetic theology of Jan Paul II: semiotic threshold and visualization of abstractions / Поэтическая теология Яна Павла II: семиотический порог и визуализация абстракций

Визуальная теология
The central issue of the research is the question of the semiotic threshold ‒ the boundary between semiotic phenomena and no-sign territory (Umberto Eco), where man stops trying to understand metaphysical entities.
Elena Brazgovskaya / Елена Евгеньевна Бразговская
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Idolatry, Indifference, and the Scientific Study of Religion: Two New Humean Arguments [PDF]

, 2018
We utilize contemporary cognitive and social science of religion to defend a controversial thesis: the human cognitive apparatus gratuitously inclines humans to religious activity oriented around entities other than the God of classical theism.
Linford, Daniel
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Ambiguity, Oscillation and Disorder: Online Ethnography and the Making of Culture [PDF]

, 2010
http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/mcs/article/view/1598 ...
Marshall, J
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Divine Hiddenness in the Christian Tradition [PDF]

A critique of J. L. Schellenberg's argument from Divine Hiddenness: Schellenberg's conclusion that since apparently there are 'capable inculpable non-believers in God' the cognitive problem of divine hiddenness is actually an argument for the non ...
Danielyan, Edgar
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An Evaluation of Skeptical Theism

Svensk 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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