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Theological Implications of the Simulation Argument [PDF]
, 2010 Nick Bostrom’s Simulation Argument (SA) has many intriguing theological implications. We work out some of them here. We show how the SA can be used to develop novel versions of the Cosmological and Design Arguments. We then develop some of the affinities
Steinhart, Eric
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Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 82-96, January 2024.Abstract This article argues that freedom in the divine creative act is better understood as a freedom of consent rather than freedom of will. However, even if some conundrums are thus avoided, one has to face the apparent antinomy between both God's creative act from His very nature and God's absolute freedom.
Isabelle Moulin
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Christian Insights into Plotinus' Metaphysics and his Concept of Aptitude (Ἐπιτηδειότης) [PDF]
, 2017 Modern scholarship on Late Antique philosophy seems to be more interested than ever before in examining in depth convergences and divergences between Platonism and Early Christian thought. Plotinus is a key gure in such an examination.
Pavlos, Panagiotis
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Simplicius on Empedocles: A note on his commentary in Phys. 157.25–161.20
ШагиThe present study attempts to show what influence a commentary can have on the formation of ideas about a preceding philosophical tradition. A case in point is Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s “Physics” and on fragments of Empedocles’ poem.
A. S. Afonasina
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Manuscript “Neoplatonic Philosophy” by Pamfil D. Yurkevych: source criticism
Наукові записки НаУКМА: Філософія та релігієзнавство, 2018 This article is the first to bring into scientific discussion and to provide a historico-philosophical analysis of a manuscript “Neoplatonic Philosophy from the archive of Pamfil Danylovych Yurkevych (1826–1874). The reviewed manuscript belongs to P.
Anna Pylypiuk
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Varieties of Spiritual Sense: Cusanus and John Smith [PDF]
, 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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Review of Paul Tyson, A Christian Theology of Science
Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 697-704, July 2024.
Peter Harrison
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, 1958 Perhaps no individual after Paul exercised an influence on t he history of Christianity comparable to that of Augustine (354- 430). Beyond a doubt the greatest of the Latin Church fathers, he lived during the years when the formative period of the ...
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Augustine on pagan knowledge of God and the Trinity
Studium: Filosofía y Teología, 2017 Augustine narrates in Confessions, VII, ix, 13-15 his encounter with the Platonist books, which permitted him to grasp the immateriality of God and surprisingly the Christian Trinity too, a thesis that seems confirmed in the psychological arguments he ...
Alfonso Herreros Besa
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To Make a Rainbow - God’s Work in Nature [PDF]
, 2015 The Torah lays out a rich idea of God’s governance in the Scroll of Esther: Circumstance lays the warp, but human choices weave the woof of destiny. God remains unseen.
Goodman, Lenn E.
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