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Prognostication or predestination? [PDF]

Brain and Spine
José Pedro Lavrador, Savvas Vlachos
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Predestination and ‘pre-activation’: A theological reflection on this famous, yet often disputed doctrine. Does not this doctrine make people careless and profane?

In die Skriflig, 2020
In the first part of this article, the classic as well as modern interpretations of the doctrine on predestination (Augustine, Calvin, Dort/Barth, Smit, Van der Walt) is investigated, while in the second part, I try to answer the question whether this ...
Jan H. van Wyk
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القدر الإلهى عند سکوت إريجينا بين الدين والفلسفة Scotus Eriugena's Divine Predestination Between Religion and Philosophy [PDF]

Wadī Al-Nīl Lil Dirāsāt wa Al-Buẖūṯ Al-Insāniyyaẗ wa Al-Iğtimāʿiyyaẗ wa Al-Tarbawiyyaẗ, 2019
تکمن إشکالية هذه الدراسة فى محاولة التعرف على ماهية موقف إريجينا من مشکلة القدر الإلهي، ومدى أصالة هذا الموقف وذلک على غرار ما قدمه من آراء تخص اللاهوت والطبيعة. ولقد عولنا على المنهج التحليلى النقدى المقارن للتعاطى مع موضوع هذه الدراسة.
عبير عبد القوى سجرى
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The Notion of Causality in Edo Metaphysics: a hermeneutico philosophical study [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2022
One of the most important and most discussed problems of traditional and contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science is the problem of causality. The problem has generated a lot of controversies and debates from scholars.
Emmanuel Asia
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Abu al-Barakat al-Baghdadi on Divine Foreknowledge and Human Free Will [PDF]

Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, 2020
The present paper aims to explore the medieval philosopher Abū al-Barakāt al-Baghdādī’s (d. pre-560 AH/1164-5) position concerning the problem of divine foreknowledge and human free will and argues Abū al-Barakāt to have considered the argument for ...
Mariam Shehata
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Critical evaluation of the doctrine of predestination within black-African theology: Christ the elected and electing

Theologia Viatorum, 2022
This article aims to deconstruct the ideology about God’s election in South Africa, which is attached to capitalism. I will discuss about its impact on the South African socio-politico-economic situation in the apartheid and post-apartheid era ...
Leepo J. Modise
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Providence and predestination

, 2020
From a theological perspective, there are at least two kinds of benevolent, end-directed divine action: providence and predestination. Given that the goal of predestination is salvation, purportedly the ultimate goal of human life and divine direction in
Andrew Pinsent, Pinsent, Andrew
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New technologies and the entertainment industry: Dichotomy of Supernatural and Predestination in the Narratives of Nollywood Movies

Ianna Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2021
Background: The importance of genre creativity in the context of cinematic experience cannot be overstressed. This is because whoever controls content dominates audience’s mind.
Joe Odedina
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Fyodor Dostoevsky and America: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Oldtown Folks and Issues of Calvinist Theology [PDF]

Достоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журнал, 2020
The article considers the image of America in Dostoevsky’s artistic philosophy. It gives a brief overview of existing research, including literary, political, and mythological aspects of the American topos in Dostoevsky.
Tatyana V. Kovalevskaya
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De l’augustinisme à la théosophie

Recherches Germaniques, 2018
Despite the fact that its title definitely suggests an alchemical treatise, the present work by Johann Valentin Andreae proves, when read attentively, to be inspired by biblical theology.
Jean-François Alizon
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