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Showing 1 to 20 of 367 for “"Philosophy of religion"”.
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John Dewey and an ecological philosophy of religion
This dissertation carries out a systematic study of the religious thought of the 20th century American philosopher John Dewey. Its motivation is that Dewey’s religious views have been seriously misunderstood and under appreciated by philosophers and Dewey scholars to date. Breaking with the …
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Kant's philosophy of religion : the relationship between Ecclesiastical faith and reasoned religion
… that Kant makes an apparent contradiction in Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone with respect to the relationship between reason and Scripture. At the outset of Religion Kant states that he aims to discover whether reason can be found to be compatible and at one with Scripture. Kant …
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Portrait of a Heretic: The Development of Walter Kaufmann's Philosophy of Religion
<p>This is a study of the philosophy of religion of Walter Kaufmann, specifically how he found his unique philosophical voice during the first decade of his career. It begins with Kaufmann’s work as a translator and commentator on Friedrich Nietzsche, examining the ways his interpretation of …
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The influence of William James on Georg Wobbermin's psychology and philosophy of religion
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, 1931. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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Becoming Friends of God: Practicing Philosophy of Religion and Theology in and for a Radical Spirit of Individuality and Humanity
… the case that every human being is in possession of the truth. Indeed, “there is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way to death” (Prov. 14:12). Our freedom to decide for life and blessedness greatly depends on the extent to which we have come to know what it means for us to …
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Nietzsche’s affirmative attitude towards ‘the life-affirming type of gods’: an investigation into the positive aspects of Nietzsche’s philosophy of religion
… thesis investigates certain key positive aspects of Nietzsche’s philosophy of religion, while respecting the way his philosophy as a whole changed throughout the course of his life. In the end, the aim is to produce a just portrait of Nietzsche, a philosopher who, contrary to the popular image of …
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Toward a More Illuminating View of Religious Language, Religious Truth, and God: Examination of and Critical Reflection on D. Z. Phillips’ Philosophy of Religion
… reflect on, and evaluate D. Z. Phillips’ view of philosophy, religious language, religious truth, and God. One of the focuses is given to his attempts to overcome the dichotomy between the view of religious language as fact-asserting (realist) and as attitude-expressive (anti-realist), and …
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ΔΙΑΛΕΚΤΙΚΗ ΦΥΣΙΚΗ ΚΑΙ ΕΣΧΑΤΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΘΕΟΛΟΓΙΑ. Ο ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΟΣ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΚΟΣ ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΣ ΦΥΣΙΚΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΘΕΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ ΕΠΙ ΤΗ ΒΑΣΕΙ ΤΟΥ ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΟΝΙΚΟΥ ΕΡΓΟΥ ΤΟΥ W. HEISENBERG
… PHYSICS AND CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY ON THE BASIS OF THE SCIENTIFIC WORKS OF WERNER HEISENBERG (1901-1976). THE FUNDAMENTAL THESIS IS THAT THE DIALOGUE OF PHYSICS WITH THEOLOGY CAN TAKE PLACE AS A KIND OF AN ENCOUNTER OF THE DIALECTICSOF NATURE WITH THE ESCHATOLOGY OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH. IN THE …
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The Modern Ontological Argument: in Which the Position of Alvin Plantinga Is Refuted
… to educate those who may be unfamiliar with the philosophy of religion, by presenting to them rough outlines of positions commonly assumed by logically minded spokespersons for atheism and theism, respectively. Second, I introduce and explicate the work of Alvin Plantinga—a prominent proponent of …
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A Philosophical Reappraisal of Henry More’s Theory of Divine Space
This project provides a philosophical reappraisal of Henry More’s theory of divine space, which—through Newton—became part of the metaphysical foundations of the new physics. Of course, this space was soon secularized into an impersonal ether, then seemingly relativized by Einstein. However, some …
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Soteriological Apprehension in Modern Religious Thought: From John Hick to Contemporary Cognitive and Affective Approaches
… structured and evaluated. Taking the pluralistic philosophy of religion developed by John Hick as its point of departure, the study seeks to refine this approach by integrating insights from Buddhist philosophy, early modern empiricism, and contemporary cognitive and affective science. The …
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A Phenomenology of Incarnate Experience
Despite the burgeoning field of Contemporary Continental Philosophy of Religion and the surfeit of literature on the philosophy of the body, little discusses the connections between the religious practice and the body in any phenomenologically rigorous way. However, one might argue that the …
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Reanimalizing religion: Hegel, habit, and the nature of spirit
Recently, a number of scholars have sought to reveal the extent to which the concept of religion and the discipline of religious studies depend upon a distinction between humans and other animals for their conceptual and disciplinary integrity. This dissertation is an attempt to deepen this insight …
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The perversion of the absolute: religion and representation in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
<p>The question of the role of religion in Hegel’s philosophical legacy has long been a fraught one. Beginning with the schism between so-called Right and Left Hegelianism, two lines of interpretation have developed in nearly diametric opposition. On the one side, Hegel’s system is regarded as the …
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Nietzsche as Philosopher of Religion
… is antireligious, I argue for his positive philosophy of religion, and for an affirmative religiousness of his own which finds expression in the figures of Dionysus and Zarathustra. Nietzsche's critique of Christianity must not be taken for hostility toward religion in general: he insists …
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A Constructive Theology of Truth as a Divine Name with Reference to the Bible and Augustine
This study is a work of constructive theology that retrieves the ancient Christian understanding of God as truth for contemporary theological discourse and points to its relevance to biblical studies and philosophy of religion. The contribution is threefold: first, the thesis introduces a novel …
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A Hindu Perspective on Justice in a World of Suffering: A Caitanya Vaiṣṇava Response to the Problem of Evil
The problem of evil is one of the most powerful objections to perfect being theism, according to which, God is conceptualized as the personal omnibenevolent, omniscient, omnipotent God. Certain versions of this problem, as developed in recent decades in Anglophone philosophy of religion, pertain to …
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Narrative Theodicy with Fyodor Dostoevsky and Karl Barth
… the primarily theoretical theodicies in the philosophy of religion and in some Christian theological thought. It is the contention of this thesis that theodicy done in this theoretical mode does more to harm than help actual sufferers. Therefore, rather than offering an abstract theoretical …
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Bohme and Hegel; A study of their Intellectual Development and Shared Readings of Two Christian Theologoumena
This thesis, Böhme and Hegel: A Study of their Intellectual Development and Shared Readings of Two Christian Theologoumena, explores the connections which exist between both the intellectual development of Jakob Böhme and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and in their readings of two Christian …
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