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Trends in Spirituality and Spiritual Care in Nursing—A Discursive Paper

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim This paper outlines key developments, innovations, and milestones in the field of spirituality and spiritual care in nursing. Design A discursive paper. Results Nursing scholars have significantly influenced the profession and contributed to the development of nursing knowledge, particularly in the field of spirituality and spiritual care.
Fiona Timmins   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Natural Law with and without God [PDF]

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Law & Religion
There is a common perception of natural law theory as characteristically (if not necessarily) theistic. This is sometimes presented as a drawback by secular critics of natural law thinking.
Jonathan Crowe
doaj   +1 more source

Od ateizmu do teizmu poprzez krytykę „pięciu dróg” św. Tomasza w świetle myśli Antony’ego Flewa

open access: yesAnnales Missiologici Posnanienses, 2020
Atheism and theism have been seen rather as contradictory points of view, without the possibility to enter into dialogue. In 1966 Antony Flew published a book entitled God  and Philosphy, a key work, in which the author criticised theism and later – the
Angelika Mrówka
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Untamed God or Reckless Risk-Taker? A Reply to Hasker\u27s Natural Order Theodicy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper argues that Molinism best rebuts the problem of natural evil when compared to the attempts of Open Theists, particularly William Hasker. The author begins by summarizing Hasker\u27s own Natural Order Theodicy, and subsequently critiques it. He
Justice, Nathan S
core   +1 more source

The Contemporary Debate on Secularization and Its Cross‐National Variation: A Systematization Through Topic Modeling

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Secularization is a key concept in the social scientific study of religion, yet its meaning remains ambiguous due to varied definitions produced in the literature. This article aims to provide a data‐driven systematization of the debate on religious change by analyzing 1638 academic articles published between 2001 and 2022 using structural ...
Valeria Rainero, Ruud Luijkx
wiley   +1 more source

Two Sorts of Natural Theology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Usually, natural theology is understood as the project of providing arguments for the existence of God. This project is endorsed by Moreland and Craig. McGrath, on the other hand, says that this project fails.
Jakobsen, Martin
core   +2 more sources

The Paradoxes of the Spiritual Self: Disidentification as a Marker of Identity

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how practitioners of self‐spirituality conceptualize their spiritual identity. On the basis of 62 in‐depth interviews with secular Jewish Israelis engaged in various spiritual practices, we find that spiritual identity is constructed through a distinctive cultural logic we term disidentification—a systematic resistance to ...
Nurit Zaidman, Michal Pagis
wiley   +1 more source

Oppy and Modal Theistic Proofs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
I argue that Graham Oppy’s attempt to redefend his charge that all modal theistic arguments “must be question-begging” is unsuccessful. Oppy’s attempt to show that theism and modal concretism are compatible is not only tangential for his purposes, it is ...
Davis, Richard
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Moral Error Theory and the Problem of Evil [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Moral error theory claims that no moral sentence is (nonvacuously) true. Atheism claims that the existence of evil in the world is incompatible with, or makes improbable, the existence of God. Is moral error theory compatible with atheism?
Daly, Chris
core   +2 more sources

Code and Creed: The Construction of AI‐Islamic Discourse in Singapore's Media Landscape

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how Singapore's mainstream media shapes public understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) in Islamic contexts through analysis of newspaper coverage from 1989 to 2024. Drawing on computational analysis of over 620,000 articles from The Straits Times and The Business Times, we develop the concept of “double mediation” to ...
Reza Shaker
wiley   +1 more source

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