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John Calvin and John Locke on the Sensus Divinitatis and Innatism [PDF]

Religions, 2017
Inheritors of the Calvinist Reformed tradition have long disagreed about whether knowledge of God’s nature and existence can be or need be acquired inferentially by means of the standard arguments of natural theology. Nonetheless, they have traditionally
J. Caleb Clanton
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Teaching Music in the Reformed/Calvinist Tradition: Sphere Sovereignty and the Arts [PDF]

Religions, 2017
This article shares objectives, teaching methods, and sources of inspiration as I lead 21st-century students in engaging a Reformed/Calvinistic vision for the arts generally, and music specifically.
John MacInnis
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¿Son válidos los argumentos evolutivos desacrcreditadores en contra de la ciencia cognitiva crcreacionista de la religión? [PDF]

Revista Colombiana de Filosofía de la Ciencia, 2016
Según Plantinga, la identificación de los mecanismos cognitivos (postulados por la ciencia cognitiva de la religión (CCR) para explicar la creencia en Dios) con el sensus divinitatis, permite construir un argumento a favor de la racionalidad del teísmo e,
Jorge Sierra
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Ibn Taymiyya’s Fiṭralism and Alvin Plantinga’s Reformed Epistemology: A Comparative Study

Religions
Contemporary philosophers and epistemologists as well as scholars of Islamic studies have not failed to notice some striking similarities between aspects of the Islamic notion of the “fiṭra” (humanity’s archetypal nature) articulated by the medieval ...
Safaruk Chowdhury
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‘Implanted in us by Nature’: The Cognitive Science of Religion and its Importance for Theology

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 64, Issue 6, Page 745-762, November 2023., 2023
Abstract Abstract: The Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) holds that religion emerges from human cognition and its intuitions. Hence, it describes religion as a ‘natural’ belief in ‘supernatural agents’. Traditional theology also maintained that there is an ‘innate’ or ‘implanted’ knowledge of God or gods.
Ruth Gornandt
wiley   +1 more source

SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE: PROCESSING DIFFERENT INFORMATION OR PROCESSING INFORMATION DIFFERENTLY?

Zygon®, Volume 58, Issue 3, Page 732-748, September 2023., 2023
Abstract This article introduces the concept of spiritual intelligence in terms of a natural human ability to take a different perspective on reality rather than an extraordinary ability to engage with a different/supernatural reality. From a cognitive perspective, spiritual intelligence entails a re‐balancing of the two main modes of human cognition ...
Marius Dorobantu, Fraser Watts
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OPEN THEISM AND RISK MANAGEMENT: A PHILOSOPHICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Zygon®, Volume 56, Issue 3, Page 591-613, September 2021., 2021
Abstract Open theism denies that God has definite exhaustive foreknowledge, and affirms that God takes certain risks when creating the universe. Critics of open theism often complain that the risks are too high. Perhaps there is something morally wrong with God taking a risk in creating a universe with an open future. Open theists have tried to respond
R. T. Mullins, Emanuela Sani
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¿Puede la intolerancia religiosa ser justificada? Sensus divinitatis, diversidad

Grafía, 2017
Calvino plantea, a través de la idea de sensus divinitatis (esto es, que hay un conocimiento implantado de Dios), una justificación a favor de la intolerancia religiosa y de la persecución y castigo a los herejes. Pero ¿es válida esta justificación de la
Jorge Sierra Merchán
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Ander weë tot God? Calvyn oor nie-Christelike godsdienste

Acta Theologica, 2008
Religious freedom is currently guaranteed by constitution in many countries. At the same time it has become a popular notion that no religion should claim to be the only true way to knowledge of God.
P. C. Potgieter
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Calvin and other religions

Acta Theologica, 2004
Widely differing views on ways leading to true knowledge of God is at present characteristic of discussions in the sphere of religion. Although Calvin worked in a completely different scene, he has laid down certain principles based on his ...
P. C. Potgieter
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