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Anthropomorphism according to Al-Ghazali (d. 1111) and Maimonides (d. 1204): A comparative discourse
The existence of ‘human-like’ attributes and actions in the Qur’an and Hebrew Bible entails to various interpretations towards anthropomorphic verses among the Muslim and Jewish counterparts.
Nurhanisah Senin +4 more
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Acquiring Universal Values through a Particular Tradition: A Perspective on Judaism and Modern Pluralism [PDF]
Religious traditions can be sources of values and attitudes supporting the liberal polity in ways that political theorizing and conceptions of public reason often fail to recognize.
Jonathan, Jacobs
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A Comparative Study of Maimonides and Avicenna's Views about Resurrection [PDF]
Avicenna and Maimonides are philosophers of religion, who were concerned about rational affirmation of their religious beliefs. Based on his Islamic view, Avicenna accepts bodily and spiritual resurrection, but has two different approaches to their ...
Maliheh Saberi Najafabadi
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The article considers the logical and philosophical doctrine of sophists, which, according to some modern researchers, was more philosophical than their ancient critics recognized. A comparison of the provisions of Aristotle's hermeneutics with preserved
Ilya Dvorkin
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Back from Shingly: revisiting the premodern history of Jews in Kerala [PDF]
Jewish history in Kerala is based on sources mainly from the colonial period onward and mostly in European languages, failing to account for the premodern history of Jews in Kerala. These early modern sources are based on oral traditions of Paradeśi Jews
Gamliel, Ophira
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It is common to interpret Maimonides as emphasizing the unknowability of God’s essence. In this paper, Sarah Pessin asks us to supplement this interpretation with the additional sense that God’s essence is also knowable for Maimonides.
Sarah Pessin
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Metaphor, religious language and religious experience [PDF]
Is it possible to talk about God without either misrepresentation or failing to assert anything of significance? The article begins by reviewing how, in attempting to answer this question, traditional theories of religious language have failed to ...
Harrison, V.S.
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Maimonides for the Masses? Chaim Kruger, Yiddish Journalism, and Medieval Jewish Philosophy
In the early twentieth century, the Jewish community in Montreal created its own religious, cultural and intellectual spaces, including synagogues, schools, a library, and a Yiddish language daily, the Keneder Adler.
Ira Robinson, Yosef Robinson
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What is Apophaticism? Ways of Talking About an Ineffable God [PDF]
Apophaticism -- the view that God is both indescribable and inconceivable -- is one of the great medieval traditions of philosophical thought about God, but it is largely overlooked by analytic philosophers of religion.
Gabriel, Citron, Michael, Scott
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Muchas de las doctrinas expuestas por Alfonso de la Torre han encontrado su inspiración en la Guía de perplejos de Maimónides e, indirectamente, en algunos autores árabes.
Rafael Ramón Guerrero
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