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After the death of God

by Caputo, John D., Vattimo, Gianni, Robbins, Jeffrey W.

fromInsurrections

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"It has long been assumed that the more modern we become, the lessreligious we will be. Yet a recent resurrection in faith has challenged thecertainty of this belief. In these original essays and interviews, leadinghermeneutical philosophers and postmodern theorists John D. Capu…

After the death of God

by Caputo, John D., Vattimo, Gianni, Vahanian, Gabriel

fromInsurrections

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"It has long been assumed that the more modern we become, the lessreligious we will be. Yet a recent resurrection in faith has challenged thecertainty of this belief. In these original essays and interviews, leadinghermeneutical philosophers and postmodern theorists John D. Capu…

Divine intervention: metaphysical and epistemological puzzles

by Fales, Evan

fromRoutledge studies in the philosophy of religion

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Introduction -- How does God do things? -- Divine governance and the laws of nature -- Trouble with time -- Eternal God as author of nature -- What can God know? -- Healed hearts, inspired minds -- Mystical revelations -- Is science a mystic's friend?

Humanism and the death of God: searching for the good after Darwin, Marx, and Ni…

by Osborn, Ronald E.

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Humanism and the Death of God' is a critical exploration of secular humanism and its discontents. Through close readings of three exemplary nineteenth-century philosophical naturalists or materialists, who perhaps more than anyone set the stage for our contemporary quandaries wh…

Humanism and the death of God: searching for the good after Darwin, Marx, and Ni…

by Osborn, Ronald E.

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'Humanism and the Death of God' is a critical exploration of secular humanism and its discontents. Through close readings of three exemplary nineteenth-century philosophical naturalists or materialists, who perhaps more than anyone set the stage for our contemporary quandaries w…

In the garden of the gods: models of kingship from the Sumerians to the Sele…

by Anagnostou-Laoutides, Evangelia

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"Examining the evolution of kingship in the Ancient Near East from the time of the Sumerians to the rise of the Seleucids in Babylon, this book argues that the Sumerian emphasis on the divine favour that the fertility goddess and the Sun god bestowed upon the king should be unde…

Thinking through feeling: God, emotion, and passibility

by Scrutton, Anastasia Philippa

fromContinuum studies in philosophy of religion

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Contemporary debates on God's emotionality are divided between two extremes. Impassibilists deny God's emotionality on the basis of God's omniscience, omnipotence and incorporeality. Passibilists seem to break with tradition by affirming divine emotionality, often focusing on th…

Anatheism: returning to God after God

by Kearney, Richard

fromInsurrections

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"Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew…

Anatheism: returning to God after God

by Kearney, Richard

fromInsurrections

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"Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew…

Confessions of a born-again pagan

by Kronman, Anthony T.

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We live in an age of disenchantment. The number of self-professed "atheists" continues to grow. Yet many still feel an intense spiritual longing for a connection to what Aristotle called the "eternal and divine." For those who do, but demand a God that is compatible with their m…

Histories of the hidden God: concealment and revelation in Western Gnostic, es…

fromGnostica (Louvain, Belgium)

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"In Western religious traditions, God is conventionally conceived as a humanlike creator, lawgiver, and king, a being both accessible and actively present in history. Yet there is a concurrent and strong tradition of a God who actively hides. The two traditions have led to a ten…

Histories of the hidden God: concealment and revelation in Western Gnostic, es…

fromGnostica (Louvain, Belgium)

0 Type: Book

"In Western religious traditions, God is conventionally conceived as a humanlike creator, lawgiver, and king, a being both accessible and actively present in history. Yet there is a concurrent and strong tradition of a God who actively hides. The two traditions have led to a ten…