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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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The Limits of Skeptical Theism
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of PhilosophySkeptical theists contend that human cognitive limitations undermine atheistic arguments from evil. One recent challenge to skeptical theism has been posed by Climenhaga (2025), who argues that if we should—as some skeptical theists argue—be agnostic ...
Slater Simek
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Does hope help? Climate emotions and the chances for change
Ethos, EarlyView.Abstract Hope is sometimes dismissed as a feel‐good attitude that discourages people from taking meaningful action. In climate debates, many activists and scholars frame fear as a more effective motivator than hope. Yet in rural Namibia and Kenya, as well as in several recent social movements, hope is experienced as a vital force that sustains people ...
Michael Schnegg, Julian Sommerschuh
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Signs of Creation: Guides to Theism A Study of Quran and Nahjal-Balāgha [PDF]
پژوهش نامه معارف قرآنی, 2013 Consideration and contemplation of signs of creation lead to theism. In his Nahj al-Balāgha, Imam Ali (AS) has repeatedly drawn attention to this fact.
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International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This paper is a response to John Betz's book, Christ, the Logos of Creation: An Essay in Analogical Metaphysics (Emmaus Academic, 2023). The essay confines itself to answering two methodological questions, namely: Does Przywara's approach to analogy indeed represent the basic form (‘Denkform’) that analogy has ‘always assumed’ in Catholic ...
Archie J. Spencer
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Skeptical Theism and Epistemic Propriety [PDF]
, 2016 Contemporary proponents of the problem of evil argue that evil is evidence, even strong evidence, against the existence of God. Next, these so-called atheologians claim that having such evidence against God’s existence suffices for reasonably believing ...
Rutledge, Jonathan
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Toward an Ecumenical Metaphysics? A Response to Reviewers of Christ the Logos of Creation
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract After a series of promising ecumenical meetings in 1929 and 1931 with the Jesuit Erich Przywara, who advocated an analogical understanding of the relationship between God and world – doing so in part to ward off the danger posed by modern forms of pantheism – Karl Barth abruptly threw down the gauntlet and presented a serious obstacle to ...
John R. Betz
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Theism and Mathematical Realism [PDF]
, 2001 This paper examines connections between theism and mathematical realism. Mathematical realism, which offers the best account of mathematics, strongly supports theism. Theism, in turn, supports mathematical realism.
Byl, John
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The Epistemic Axiology of Theism [PDF]
The axiology of theism concerns the question of whether God’s existence would be a good thing. Pro-theists say yes, and anti-theists say no. This paper extends the axiology of theism to the realm of epistemology: would God’s existence be an epistemically
Jackson, Elizabeth
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A Critical Understanding of Thomas Jay Oord’s Kenotic Theism versus Classical Theism- Two Fundamentally Different Concepts of God [PDF]
Pharos Journal of TheologyThis article argues that the theological framework proposed by Thomas Jay Oord, particularly his concepts of "uncontrolling love" and a kenotic, risk-taking God, is not a mere reinterpretation or development of classical theism but represents a ...
Prof Dr Godfrey Harold
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