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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"God's existence"”.
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Faire Semblants and Scandalous Worship: Iconophobia and the English Renaissance
… use of material destruction to affirm God's existence and the immortality of cherished loved ones made the metaphor of iconoclasm a powerful engine for transforming human affection into acts of organized violence. This fundamentalist rhetoric, and the language of toleration that …
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A comparative study of the religious epistemology of Carl F. H. Henry and Alvin Plantiga
… work between the ability of humanity to know God and the special status of humanity as bearing the image of God could be the core idea which serves as the epistemological application of the ontological reality of God's existence.
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A Study of the Development and Significance of the Idea of the 'Image of God' from its Origins in Genesis through its Historical-Philosophical Interpretations to Contemporary Concerns in Science and Phenomenology
… idea of the human being as made in the 'image of God', from its origin in the book of Genesis through its historical and philosophical unfolding. There are, however, many interpretations of what this means, giving rise to problems regarding what precisely is being conveyed by this idea, The issue …
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The apologetic of James P. Boyce
… discusses all of the a priori arguments for the existence of God found in the extant student notes of Boyce's lectures and the Abstract of Systematic Theology . In conclusion, examples of additional a priori arguments Boyce employed are presented. Chapter 4 discusses four of the ten a posteriori …
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Evangelical worldview analysis: A critical assessment and proposal
… can be reduced to absurdity or for a proof of God's existence based on a common phenomenon of human experience. Overall, abductive analysis stands as the superior option. However, it was noted that it best operates within a framework that contains relevant background information for …
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Divine Hiddenness and the Challenge of Inculpable Nonbelief
<p>Divine hiddenness is the idea that God is in some sense hidden or obscure. This dissertation responds to J.L. Schellenberg's argument, based on divine hiddenness and human reason, against the existence of God. Schellenberg argues that if a perfectly loving God exists, we would not expect to find …
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The concept of revelation
… at the heart of belief in revelation, that God can, in some way or another, be known by men. For to say that God has revealed Himself to his human creatures implies some kind of knowledge of God. I have rejected attempts to describe this in terms simply of degrees of commitment, evinced by …
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The status of the world : rochdian creationism and peripatetic eternalism
… the basic elements that the world is made up of, God's existence, God-world relationship, eternity of time and motion and the immortality of the soul. When we do look at all these topics, the first idea that jumps into our mind is the big convergence between all these topics, in the sense that the …
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Traditional Apologetics in a Postconciliar Church: From Scholasticism to Combinationalism and Beyond
<p>Recognizing that Christians cannot adequately understand the mysteries of faith from a single vantage point, Catholic theologians have been keen on emphasizing the multidimensional nature of theological understanding since Vatican II. The advantage of such a method has helped believers to …