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The Motivation to Love: Overcoming Spiritual Violence and Sacramental Shame in Christian Churches
(2015-03-14)
The Motivation to Love is a collaborative, qualitative study of spiritual violence in Roman Catholic and evangelical Protestant churches’ relationships with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Spiritual ...
The reasonableness of faith as a response to evil.
(1981)
To judge the degree to which natural evil makes God's being good improbable, we would need to know three things. We would need to know how the balance of evil in our world compares with that in other possible worlds. We ...
Semiotics, semantics and texts :
(1983)
The first step in the exposition was to clarify the rift between hermeneutics and structuralism. Restoring parity between the language system and spoken discourse countermands the error of excluding meaning and reference ...
Describing God.
(1997)
The first few chapters of this dissertation examine traditional explanations of the problem of religious discourse and finds them to be inadequate for a variety of reasons. The traditional explanations are either founded ...
Motivating the Self to Virtue in Western and non-Western Countries: Does Nation or Faith Matter More in the Development of the Moral Self?
(2015-03-14)
‘Self’ has long been a contested term within psychology and religion; however, Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism all acknowledge that individuals struggle to embody narratives of a virtuous life—a life motivated to do good, ...
Kant and religious passion.
(1997)
In short, the key point that decided Kant's fate in his fight with the romantics was his steadfast refusal to yield a place for religious passion in his moral thought. It was this subtle--often overlooked--trait that helped ...
The epistemic origins of Xenophanes' natural theology.
(2002)
The monograph continues by looking at how these two streams emerge from one single---albeit complex---commitment to a proto-scientific commitment to the observance of nature. It is this consistent, coherent, and widely ...
On middle knowledge.
(2007)
Abstract not available.
Divine omniscience and the fatalist dilemma.
(2006)
Arguments against our free will pose a serious problem. Although there are not very many philosophers who call themselves fatalists, quite a few are convinced that fatalism follows from common assumptions. Assuming that ...
"Jihad": What's Happening with this Virtue?
(2015-03-13)
"Jihad" for Muslim is a virtue, it’s learned from generation to generation. But nowadays we can see that this virtue has had different interpretations in society, from peaceful to terrorism. This research will be conducted ...