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Salvaging Pascal’s Wager [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Many think that Pascal’s Wager is a hopeless failure. A primary reason for this is because a number of challenging objections have been raised to the wager, including the “many gods” objection and the “mixed strategy” objection.
Jackson, Elizabeth, Rogers, Andrew
core  

Christian theology and the new atheism: the hierarchy of explanations

open access: yesTeologia w Polsce, 2020
The hierarchy of explanations is necessary. Both science and theology are rooted, each in its own way, in the human desire to understand and know, but they seek understanding and truth from within formally distinct horizons of inquiry.
Francis Nonyelu
semanticscholar   +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

(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

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

Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Fathers' Experiences of Early Parenting: A Qualitative Study

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim This study aimed to explore culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) fathers' early parenting support needs in the perinatal period in Australia. Design A qualitative descriptive research study. Participant fathers were recruited using purposive and snowball sampling who self‐identified as CALD. Methods Data were collected through semi‐
Rakime Elmir   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inventing the Enlightenment: Anti-Jacobins, British Hegelians, and the Oxford English Dictionary [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of scholarly citation, none of this work may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher.
Schmidt, James
core   +2 more sources

What Lies Between Them? Exploring Relational Dynamics Among Hetero‐Gay Co‐Parents

open access: yesJournal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study seeks to enhance knowledge of the relationships between elective co‐parents in hetero‐gay families. Background Elective co‐parenting is an alternative family form that encompasses parents who are not intimate partners but decide to collaborate for the purpose of having children and raising them together.
Lior Bar, Ahuva Even‐Zohar
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Religious Belief and Sentencing Decisions in a UK Sample

open access: yesJournal of Personality, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This is a stage 1 registered report submission that seeks to examine whether religious belief and a range of other individual differences variables are associated with youth justice preferences. Method As this is a stage 1 registered report, these are liable to change.
Isaac Halstead, Alex Lloyd
wiley   +1 more source

What the New Atheists (and, for That Matter, Creationists Too) Got Right

open access: yesReligions
The reception of the so-called New Atheism in the 2000s in the intellectual community was harsh. Its main figures were accused of elaborating on a subject of which they were mostly ignorant.
Cristobal Bellolio
doaj   +1 more source

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