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The US Religious Public and Radical Human Enhancements
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A radical enhancement to the human body or brain is defined as giving human capabilities that no past or present human has possessed. These are being developed by scientists and bioengineers and backed by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. This article reports on the first study of the US religious public's views of radical enhancements using a ...
John H. Evans
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Religious disbelief is increasing worldwide, yet its cognitive and cultural foundations remain debated. We examined how analytic thinking and cultural learning shape (dis)belief across generations and over time. Study 1 compared younger (18–39, n = 427) and older (40+, n = 639) Polish adults.
Paweł Łowicki +4 more
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Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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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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Lonergan, Decolonization and First Nations Peoples: An Apologetic from an Insider on the Outside
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract The purpose of this article is to respond critically to a research project initiated out of the Board of the Lonergan Research Institute that seeks to expose colonialist assumptions in Lonergan's thought. Some of the initiatives seek to link Lonergan with complicity in Canadian residential schools, spiritual violence, and cultural genocide ...
John D. Dadosky
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TheoLogicaThis paper develops an epistemic argument for aspirational theism, the view that for agents who regard theism as a live epistemic possibility, there exist defeasible reasons to rationally hope that God exists.
Jimmy Alfonso Licon
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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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Belief in God among South African youth
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1997 This article investigates belief in God among 538 students from standard 9 who attend Anglican and Catholic schools in the Johannesburg/Pretoria region.
Johannes A. van der Ven +2 more
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Black Humanism: Sameness and Difference in Being Human and Being Black in the United Kingdom
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This essay outlines a variety of responses to a central question pertaining to Black humanism: namely, what does it mean to be a Black human, given the existence of systemic racism within the Body of Christ and in many White majority societies in the African Diaspora, in this case, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain?
Anthony G. Reddie
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Neoclassical Theism and the Problem of Foreknowledge and Passibility
TheoLogicaThough it is often not recognized, there are multiple models of God being affirmed and debated throughout the history of philosophical theology. In contemporary discussion, we have developed labels for these models such as classical theism, neoclassical
Ryan T. Mullins
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