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The Problem of Arbitrary Creation for Impassibility

open access: yesOpen Theology, 2020
There is a particular question that has plagued classical Christian theism over the centuries. What reason could God have for creating a universe? In this article, I shall articulate the unique claims of classical theism that other rival models of God ...
Mullins R. T.
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Cognitive Science of Religion and Classical Theism: A Synthesis

open access: yesReligions, 2021
Launonen and Mullins argue that if Classical Theism is true, human cognition is likely not theism-tracking, at least, given what we know from cognitive science of religion. In this essay, we develop a model for how classical theists can make sense of the
Tyler Dalton McNabb, Michael DeVito
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The Problem of God’s Existence: In Defence of Skepticism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
There are four main positions in the argument about whether God exists: atheism, theism, agnosticism, and scepticism. From an epistemological standpoint, scepticism is the most rational; even if a decisive argument which would settle the debate has not ...
Ziemiński, Ireneusz
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Between Naturalism and Theism: Johnston and Putnam on the Reality of God [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The essay compares mark Johnston’s and Hilary Putnam’s approaches to the philosophy of religion in the framework of Charles Taylor’s claim that in modernity ”intermediate positions’ between theism and naturalism become increasingly attractive for a ...
Schlette, Magnus
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Theism in Historical Perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
I will discuss some familiar problems in the philosophy of religion which arise for theistic belief. I will argue that it may be most worthwhile to focus on a particular sort of theistic belief, capital-T ’Theism’, central to which is a particular ...
Chappell, Timothy
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Book Review: \u3cem\u3eIndian Thought and Western Theism: the Vedānta of Rāmānuja\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Book Review of Indian Thought and Western Theism: the Vedānta of Rāmānuja. Martin Ganeri.
Adluri, Sucharita
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The Content of the Mystical Experience of the Brahman-World Relation in Upanishads based on Ibn ʿArabi’s Nondelimited Oneness of Being [PDF]

open access: yesReligious Inquiries, 2022
The Upanishads incorporate different interpretations of the relation between Brahman and the world, a difference that gives some people a reason to deny the existence of a unique philosophical doctrine in these texts.
Mohmmad Rasool Imani Khoshkhoo
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Otwarty teizm – teologiczny ‘wymysł’ czy sensowna propozycja?

open access: yesScientia et Fides, 2015
Open Theism – theological ‘figment’ or sensible proposition?Open theism is a theological position, which shook the evangelical Protestantism, provoking a theological debate on the doctrine of God and on the relation between Creator and creation in its ...
Damian Dorocki
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A Study of the Atheistic Argument from Scale Focusing on the Narrative of Travis Dumsday [PDF]

open access: yesPizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2021
The theistic argument for an intelligent and purposeful designer, in addition to receiving critiques from great philosophers such as Hume and Kant, was influenced by Darwin's theory that explains life based on a single cell, which itself is the product ...
Mahmoud Mokhtari
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Skeptical Theism Proved [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Skeptical theism is a popular response to arguments from evil. Many hold that it undermines a key inference often used by such arguments. However, the case for skeptical theism is often kept at an intuitive level: no one has offered an explicit argument ...
Hendricks, Perry
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