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Lexical and Conceptual Language Compression/ Decompression through Antonymic Construals in the Qur’ān

open access: yesJournal of Islamic Thought and Civilization, 2019
This study investigates the lexical and conceptual compression/decompression of the Arabic language brought about by means of antonymic construals in the selected category ‘Signs of Allah'sMagnanimity and Omnipotence’ of the Qur’ān.
Shaheen Mubarik, Nadia Anwar
doaj   +1 more source

Divine designation in the use of the Bible: The quest for an ‘all-powerful God’ (the omnipotence of God) in a pastoral ministry of human empowerment

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
In our exposure to weakness, vulnerability, loss, anguish and different forms of impairment, the following pastoral theological questions arises: What is meant by divine almightiness within the human need for spiritual strength, empowerment ...
Daniel J. Louw
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A psychoanalytic concept illustrated: Will, must, may, can — revisiting the survival function of primitive omnipotence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The author explores the linear thread connecting the theory of Freud and Klein, in terms of the central significance of the duality of the life and death instinct and the capacity of the ego to tolerate contact with internal and external reality ...
Abraham K.   +27 more
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The Analogia Entis for Reformed Theology: Retrieving Calvin's Implicit Metaphysics

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The famous controversy between Emil Brunner and Karl Barth which led to Barth's ‘No!’ was driven by disagreements over how to read John Calvin: Barth and Brunner never agreed on whether Calvin had a doctrine of the analogy of being. This article rekindles the debate.
Silvianne Aspray
wiley   +1 more source

God’s Omnipotence and Impossibility in al-Ghazālī and Thomas Aquinas

open access: yesULUM, 2018
During the Middle Ages, most theological and philosophical works were translated into Latin language, such as Avicenna’s al-Shifā: Ilahiyāt(The Metaphysics of The Healing),al-Ghazālī’s Maqāsıd al-falāsifa(The Aims of Philosophers), and Averroes’s ...
Özcan Akdağ
doaj   +1 more source

Neuroscience and Sentencing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This symposium comes at a propitious time for me. I am reviewing the sentences I was obliged to give to hundreds of men—mostly African American men—over the course of a seventeen-year federal judicial career.
Gertner, Nancy
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Rev. Billy vs. the market:a sane man in a world of omnipotent fantasies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper presents a case study of anti-consumerism activist William 5 Talen, aka Reverend Billy, who founded the Church of Stop Shopping. Rev. Billy’s radical critique of the worship of markets and money complements his creation of a vibrant Earth ...
Freund, James
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Anselm's Temporal‐Ontological Proof

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In his Reply to Gaunilo, Anselm presented two additional arguments for the existence of God beyond those that appear in the Proslogion. In “The Logical Structure of Anselm's Argument,” Robert M. Adams isolates each. One, he develops into a modal ontological argument along the lines of other 20th century ontological arguments (e.g., those of ...
Daniel Rubio
wiley   +1 more source

Origin of the omnipotence of eukaryotic release factor 1

open access: yesNature Communications, 2017
The eukaryotic release factor eRF1 is able to recognize the three stop codons UAA, UAG and UGA with high accuracy, while discriminating against near-cognate codons.
Christoffer Lind   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Exemplar Approach to Science and Religion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
We can judge whether some activities are scientific or religious, depending on how similar they are to exemplar scientific activities or to exemplar religious activities, even if we cannot specify the necessary and sufficient conditions for science and ...
Park, Seungbae
core   +3 more sources

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