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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Theism"”.
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What Does Theism Add to Ethical Naturalism?
… While perhaps encouraging for theists, would theism add anything substantive to theories of ethical naturalism? In this paper, I examine this question. I argue that theistic naturalism appears to incur certain objections as well as provide a plausible and explanatory constraint on content for …
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The Impact of Open Theism on C. Peter Wagner's Philosophy of Discipleship
… from a theological basis established in open theism, affirming God limited his foreknowledge and omnipotence while denying his immutability. Moreover, an underlying consequentialist ethic drove Wagner’s understanding and praxes of the Great Commission. Wagner’s telos sought to create disciples …
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The Impact of Open Theism on C. Peter Wagner's Philosophy of Discipleship
… from a theological basis established in open theism, affirming God’s limited foreknowledge and omnipotence while denying his immutability. Moreover, an underlying consequentialist ethic drove Wagner’s understanding and praxes of the Great Commission. Wagner’s telos sought to create disciples …
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When God Dies: Deconversion from Theism as Analogous to the Experience of Death
<p>In this thesis, I explore the psychological and experiential aspects of the shift from a supernatural theistic worldview (specifically born-again Christianity) to a<br />philosophically naturalistic and atheistic worldview in the context of the religious<br />landscape in the U.S. I posit that …
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The God-World Relationship Between Joseph Bracken, Philip Clayton, and the Open Theism
… Philip Clayton as a panentheist, and the open theism. They have affinities and differences as conversational partners in their multilayered relations. Their common question must be as follows: “What does it mean to believe in God today?” In this dissertation I compare their respectively …
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An evangelical discourse on God�s response to suffering: A critical assessment of Gregory Boyd�s open theism
… position adopted by Gregory Boyd known as open theism. Boyd would argue that an open view of God is in a better position to deal with the problem of evil because the traditional understanding of God�s attributes fails to vindicate God of guilt or responsibility for evil and should, therefore, be …
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De Impassibilitate Et Satisfactione: An Examination of the Methodological Implications of Trinitarian Classical Theism for the Doctrine of the Atonement
… what is becoming known as Trinitarian classical theism. Second, evangelical works on the doctrine of the atonement have shifted away from penal substitution as the central metaphor of the atonement. Both of these trends warrant an examination of the implications for Trinitarian classical theism …
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"Whether God exists"
… and probabilistic arguments for and against theism. The thesis claims that the only compelling evidentialist argument for theism is the cosmological argument from Richard Swinburne. Swinburne's argument is examined from a Bayesian perspective, and it is found that we can't fix the prior …
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A reformed Evangelical critique of Thomas Jay Oord’s Evangelical process theology
… in the Evangelical process model of relational theism as advanced in the writings of Thomas Jay Oord. The specific aim of the thesis is to evaluate and critique Oord’s model of divine providence, identifying the internal inconsistencies within Oord’s philosophical and theological framework, …
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It could not have been otherwise: an articulation and defense of divine source compatibilism
Proponents of perfect being theism have recently explored the resources of compatibilist accounts of free will, such that freedom is compatible with necessity, as a way of countering the charge that it is not possible to reconcile God’s essential perfect goodness with any significant degree of …
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Interpreting Aristotle's God
… Aristotle's deity range from myth to monotheism. My objective is two-fold: first, I show how Aristotle's works build up to God by examining Posterior Analytics, De Anima , the Physics , the Metaphysics and Nicomachean Ethics . The texts are studied in the light of contemporary Aristotelian …
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Religion, Science, and the Conscious Self: Bio-Psychological Explanation and the Debate Between Dualism and Naturalism
… concerns. The link between mind-body dualism and theism is highlighted, and it is argued that the collapse of mind-body dualism renders many versions of theism problematic. Philip Clayton's attempt to integrate an emergentist doctrine of the human person with a dualist doctrine of God is …
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Divine sovereignty and the religious problem of evil: An evaluation of evangelical models
… evaluates three evangelical models, namely, Open theism, Arminianism, and Calvinism in terms of how these models of divine sovereignty function to comfort suffering Christians. Central to this evaluation is discovering the various degrees of equivocation each model affords Christians in trusting …
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The Modern Ontological Argument: in Which the Position of Alvin Plantinga Is Refuted
… assumed by logically minded spokespersons for atheism and theism, respectively. Second, I introduce and explicate the work of Alvin Plantinga—a prominent proponent of theistic belief—and in such a way that it may be clearly understood even by those without prior experience of modal logic. …
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The Content and Metaphysical Significance of Atheism
… is to answer two questions. First, what is atheism? Second, what is the significance of atheism? I contend that atheism should be understood as the absence of theistic belief and that atheism is significant only insofar as it denotes the absence of theistic belief. Atheists may be familiar …
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That God May be All in All: A Paterology Demonstrating that the Father is the Initiator of all Divine Activity
… the divine nature in some sort of functional tri-theism. On the contrary, Scripture repeatedly affirms that there is one and only one God; that God exists eternally in three distinct persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), and that these persons are equally divine in essence and attributes. …
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The Dilemma of Existence in the Nuclear Age: Four Views
… approach the problem from various positions: theism, existentialism, black humor, and humanism. They deal with six common themes: war, God, human relationships, love, truth, and personal sacrifice. Conclusions. The central message of each of the four novels is optimistic. Although …
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Eternal Covenant: The Trinitarian Shape of an Historic Baptist Doctrine
… both covenantal biblical theology and classical theism. If Baptists are to recover the doctrine, however, they will need to respond to the clear critique leveraged against it by Robert Letham, namely, that it undermines historic Christian orthodoxy and is insufficiently grounded in Scripture. …
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