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Crossing the Threshold of Hope into the Media Culture [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Gilsoniana, 2015
The “new atheism” and the “new evangelization” have become the buzzwords of the age. Atheism is now the fastest growing “religious” group in the United States; the new evangelization decisively shaped the conclave that elected Jorge Bergoglio to the ...
Margaret J. Obrovac
doaj  

Atheist spirituality: a follow on from New Atheism?

open access: yesScripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2012
Books about well-being, self-improvement, life management and spirituality have been popular for many years. It is not news to anybody that such topics sell.
Teemu Taira
doaj   +1 more source

‘Theological Metaphysics’ and the Christological Determination of the Principle of Analogy: A Response to John Betz's Christ, the Logos of Creation

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper is a response to John Betz's book, Christ, the Logos of Creation: An Essay in Analogical Metaphysics (Emmaus Academic, 2023). The essay confines itself to answering two methodological questions, namely: Does Przywara's approach to analogy indeed represent the basic form (‘Denkform’) that analogy has ‘always assumed’ in Catholic ...
Archie J. Spencer
wiley   +1 more source

Palamism Does Not Disfigure the Gospel: A Reply to Thomas Weinandy

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In a 2024 article in the IJST, Fr. Thomas Weinandy argues that the theological system of Gregory Palamas is in grave error, especially with respect to its commitment to an objective ontological distinction between God's essence and His energies. In his concluding paragraph Fr.
Travis Dumsday
wiley   +1 more source

(Dis)Believing and Belonging: Investigating the Narratives of Young British Atheists

open access: yesTemenos, 2013
The development and public prominence of the ‘New Atheism’ in the West, particularly the UK and USA, since the millennium has occasioned considerable growth in the study of ‘non-religion and secularity’. Such work is uncovering the variety and complexity
Rebecca Catto, Janet Eccles
doaj   +1 more source

Most Peers Don’t Believe It, Hence It Is Probably False [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Rob Lovering has recently argued that since theists have been unable, by means of philosophical arguments, to convince 85 percent of professional philosophers that God exists, at least one of their defining beliefs must be either false or meaningless ...
van Eyghen, Hans, van Woudenberg, René
core   +1 more source

Theological Doctrines as Scientific Theories? Thinking along with and beyond McGrath

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract McGrath's recent analysis of the parallels between scientific theory formation and the development of theological doctrine in The Nature of Christian Doctrine (OUP, 2024) is insightful and largely compelling, but also raises some questions and areas for further exploration. First, there is a remarkable back‐and‐forth between uses of ‘doctrine’
Gijsbert van den Brink
wiley   +1 more source

Grist to the mill of anti-evolutionism: the failed strategy of ruling the supernatural out of science by philosophical fiat [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
According to a widespread philosophical opinion, science is strictly limited to investigating natural causes and putting forth natural explanations. Lacking the tools to evaluate supernatural claims, science must remain studiously neutral on questions of
Blancke, Stefaan   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Doctrine, Narrative and the Formation of Christian Identity: A Conversation with Alister McGrath

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers a critical and appreciative response to Alister McGrath’s The Nature of Christian Doctrine, exploring the formation of doctrine as a dynamic communal process rooted in Scripture, liturgy and historical context. It highlights McGrath’s analogy between doctrinal development and scientific method, emphasising the search for a ...
Frances Margaret Young
wiley   +1 more source

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