PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION What is God?: The Selected Essays of Richard R. La CroixNo abstract is available for this article.doi:10.1111/j.1468-0149.1994.tb02904.xMICHAEL DURRANTJohn Wiley & Sons, LtdAnalytic PhilosophyStallman, Richard M. Free Software, Free Society: The Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman. ...
A stubborn adherence tomaterialism/physicalismis the root cause of everything from terrorism to disease.For this reason, many are leaving it in favor of religion and various cults. However, this splintering of civilization is our downfall.Cults and religions that are even more inaccurate and damagi...
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I think Karl Barth is right: the theologian shouldn’t ask “What the apostles and prophets said, but what we must say on the basis of the apostles and prophets.” (p 4). This supports the idea that even in biblical times God changed his mind and updated laws. Even if you believe ...
But perhaps the stronger motivation is to unpack the philosophical implications of these arguments, and show their implicit claims. This might be called a 'constructive' or 'con- tributive'4 application of these arguments to the Philosophy of Religion, somewhat in the way that Ganeri applies ...
What Is an Act of God? An act of God describes an event outside of human control or activity, such as a natural disaster like a flood or an earthquake. In business, the phrase “act of God” is not associated with any particular religion or belief system. Contractual phrases referring ...
their core.“I am the bread of life.”No longer are we talking about rules or rewards or even righteousness. God is here; God is now, drawing us in, into a story that has been in place long before us and that will continue beyond what we know. But we are still called to remember...
‘bind again', to reunite the mistaken person that we think we are with the self that we truly are, then yes, it is a religion. similarly, if by ‘god' you mean a separate, supernatural being who created the universe and will reward us by sending us to heaven if we do what he ...
More than two weeks have gone by, and Trump’s success is still all too much for some of them to take. A good few are reacting in an embarrassingly theatrical manner. Abandoning Twitter/X and flouncing off to the echo chamber of Bluesky. Rob Reiner is signing himself into some kind of...
Intra-faith marriage: The union of two people of the same religion. Left-handed marriage: When the betrothed couple is of different social status, such as when a member of the royal family marries a non-royal. Marriage of convenience: A union based on something other than love, such as ...