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Divine or Human Providence; A Critical Study of Shi’ite, Mu’tazilite, and Ash’arite Exegetes on (Q. 78:30) [PDF]
پژوهشهای تفسیر تطبیقی, 2022 Received: 2021/11/15 | Correction: 2022/4/9 | Accepted: 2022/4/9The problem of predestination or free will is an issue that has engaged with the Muslims’ minds since the early periods of the rise of Islam, and one of the first issues that led to ...
Kavous Roohi Barandaq, Fatima Asaee
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Calvin and Swaab: A comparison with respect to free will
In die Skriflig, 2014 In theology and philosophy, the issue of free will is being revived. This revival seems to be initiated by the neurosciences, which, at the level of the brain, wants to give a decisive answer about the matter of free will.
Ammiël Meuleman, Willem van Vlastuin
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St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2022 Though not linguistically prominent in Christian scripture, the theology of providence captures several recurring scriptural themes. These include the order of the cosmos, the wisdom reflected in the natural and social worlds, the direction of the ...
David Fergusson
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Apostolicity II: How does divine apostolicity affect God’s interaction with the world and humanity? [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2023 Investigating the research question of how divine apostolicity affects God’s interaction with the world and humanity, predicates apostolicity as being a divine attribute.
Erwin Samuel Henderson
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Providence, Divine Power, and the ‘Invisible Hand’ in Adam Smith
Journal of Economics, Theology and Religion, 2021 This contribution advances a critical examination of Smith’s thought in theological perspective, with a point of departure in a recent interpretation of the ‘invisible hand.’ We show that the concept of general providence has displaced traditional ...
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Providence as history in Kleist’s prose (On a path to the realistic novella)
Шаги, 2022 Heinrich von Kleist’s novellas are characterized by a caleidoscopic alternation of the lands and the eras, where and when over and over again take place natural and (or) historical disasters.
A. I. Ivanitskiy
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Provide, provide: the economics of aging. [PDF]
Issue brief (George Washington University. National Health Policy Forum), 1998 Most older persons face two potentially serious economic problems: (a) declining earning power and (b) declining health that can be partly offset by increased utilization of health care. The decline in earning power is largely attributable to physiological changes and to obsolescence of skills and knowledge.
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St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2022 Free will is a perennial theological and philosophical topic. As a central dogmatic locus, it has been implicated in debates about core Christian doctrines, such as grace, salvation, sin, providence, evil, and predestination.
Aku Visala
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Maximus of Tyre on the Zeus of Homer and Plato
Erga-Logoi, 2021 The present article discusses the ingenious account of Zeus that was put forward by Maximus of Tyre in his Orations IV and XXVI. When reading into Homer various Platonic and Stoic concepts, Maximus originally amalgamates the notion of Demiurge with that ...
Mikolaj Domaradzki, Tomasz Bednarek
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Leo Tolstoy and Andrei Platonov’s Prose of 1941–1945 [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2021 Comparative analysis of A. Platonov’s wartime stories (1941–1945) and Leo Tolstoy’s Sevastopol Stories, War and Peace and Hadji Murat is performed. Items reviewed: 1) Both Red Army fighters in Platonov’s works and soldiers in Tolstoy’s works identify ...
Robert Hodel
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