scholarly journals Sensus divinitatis jako koncepcja genezy przekonań teistycznych

Diametros ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 48-60
Author(s):  
Stanisław Ruczaj
Keyword(s):  
Christian Belief ◽  
Sensus Divinitatis

W koncepcji Alvina Plantingi, sensus divinitatis („zmysł boskości”) jest ludzką władzą poznawczą, nakierowaną na tworzenie posiadających gwarancję (pozytywny status epistemiczny) przekonań o Bogu. Większość komentatorów myśli Plantingi koncentruje się na pytaniu, czy wprowadzenie tej koncepcji faktycznie pozwala obronić racjonalność przekonań teistycznych, pomijając przy tym zazwyczaj genetyczny aspekt funkcjonowania zmysłu boskości. Niniejszy artykuł ma na celu wypełnienie tej luki. Na podstawie Warranted Christian Belief Plantingi wyróżniam trzy możliwe interpretacje tego, jak sensus divinitatis tworzy przekonania teistyczne. Wskazuję także, w jaki sposób ludzki grzech wpływa na poprawne funkcjonowanie zmysłu w ramach każdej z tych interpretacji.

scholarly journals Overtuigend gezag. De schriftvisie en wijze van omgang met de Schrift van Alvin Plantinga

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-152
Author(s):  
P. De Vries
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Christian Belief ◽  
Alvin Plantinga ◽  
Cognitive Faculty ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Biblical Scholarship ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
The Status ◽  
Sensus Divinitatis

This article analyzes and evaluates Alvin Plantinga view of the status and authority of the Bible. It shows the relevance of two or more kinds of Christian Biblical scholarship Plantinga develops in Warranted Christian Belief. Plantinga argues that we can speak of knowledge when there is a warrant.Cognitive faculties include a sense of experience, the sensus divinitatis, and the inner witness of the Holy Spirit. A properly functioning cognitive faculty produces knowledge. The Christian belief that the Bible is the Word of God is not just a conviction but knowledge, knowledge that leads one to glorify and enjoy God.

HOW REFORMED IS REFORMED EPISTEMOLOGY? ALVIN PLANTINGA AND CALVIN'S ‘SENSUS DIVINITATIS’

1997 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
DEREK S. JEFFREYS
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Sense Perception ◽  
Christian Belief ◽  
Alvin Plantinga ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
Statistical Probability ◽  
Belief In God ◽  
Sensus Divinitatis ◽  
Reformed Epistemology ◽  
Cognitive Environment

In his recent two volumes on epistemology, Alvin Plantinga surveys contemporary theories of knowledge thoroughly, and carefully defends an externalist epistemology. He promises that in a third volume, Warranted Christian Belief, he will present John Calvin's sensus divinitatis as an epistemic module akin to sense perception, a priori knowledge, induction, testimony and other epistemic modules. Plantinga defines the sensus divinitatis as a ‘many sided disposition to accept belief in God (or propositions that immediately and obviously entail the existence of God) in a variety of circumstances’. Like other epistemic modules, it produces beliefs in an appropriate cognitive environment, aims at the production of true beliefs, and generates beliefs which have a high statistical probability of being true.

Charles Williams’s Arthuriad: Mythic Vision and the Possibilities of Belief

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-46
Author(s):  
J. G. Bradbury
Keyword(s):  
Religious Faith ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Christian Belief ◽  
Devotional Poetry ◽  
Religious Worldview ◽  
Intellectual Milieu ◽  
Charles Williams ◽  
Narrative Mode ◽  
Intellectual Environment

This essay explores Charles Williams’s use of the Arthurian myth to sustain a religious worldview in the aftermath of sustained attacks on the relevance and veracity of Christian belief in the early twentieth century. The premise to be explored is that key developments in science and philosophy made during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries resulted in a cultural and intellectual milieu in which assertions of religious faith became increasingly difficult. In literary terms this became evident in, amongst other things, the significant reduction in the production of devotional poetry. By the late 1930s the intellectual environment was such that Charles Williams, a man of profound religious belief who might otherwise have been expected to produce devotional work, turned to a much older mode, that of myth, that had taken on new relevance in the modern world. Williams’s use of this mode allowed him the possibility of expressing a singularly Christian vision to a world in which such vision was in danger of becoming anathema. This essay examines the way in which Williams’s lexis, verse structure, and narrative mode builds on his Arthurian source material to allow for an appreciation of religiously-informed ideas in the modern world.

Mengungkap Makna Kematian Soeharto pada Cover Tempo

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-62
Author(s):  
Indiwan Seto Wahju Wibowo
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Christian Belief ◽  
Major Topic ◽  
Last Supper ◽  
Final Meal ◽  
Magazine Cover

Soeharto’s death becomes a major topic of Tempo Magazine ,issue No.50/XXXVI/04-10 February, 2008 specially in the magazine’s cover. And this cover is so controversial as describes Soeharto as Jesus at the last supper an iconic Christianity symbol. The last supper is the final meal that according to Christian belief, Jesus shared with his apostles in Jerusalem before his crucifixion. This research is about to describe what Tempo Magazine play their role as social control and it’s rivalitation towards Soeharto. The purpose of this Research is to find out the meaning behind the Tempo Magazine Cover as describes Soeharto – the former Indonesia President- as Jesus. Kata kunci : makna kematian Soeharto, Semiotika Charles Sander Peirce, Kualitatif

Mengungkap Makna Kematian Soeharto pada Cover Majalah Tempo

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-62
Author(s):  
Indiwan Seto Wahju Wibowo
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Christian Belief ◽  
Major Topic ◽  
Final Meal ◽  
Magazine Cover

Soeharto’s death become a major topic of Tempo Magazine, issued No.50/XXXVI/04-10 February, 2008 specially in the magazine’s cover. Nad this cover is so controversial as describes Soeharto as Jesus at the last super an iconic. Christianity symbol. The last super is the final meal that according to Christian belief, Jesus shared with his apostles in Jerusalem before his crucifixion. This research is about to describe what Tempo Magazine play their role as social control and it’s rivalitation toward Soeharto. The purpose of this research is to find out the meaning behind the Tempo Magazine Cover as describes Soeharto – the former Indonesia – as Jesus. Kata kunci : makna kematian Soeharto, Semiotika Charles Sander Pierce, Kualitatif

Implications of Religious Thinking in Therapeutic Compliance

2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (12) ◽  
pp. 4432-4435
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
T Test ◽  
P Value ◽  
Christian Belief ◽  
Psychological Reactions ◽  
Psychology And Religion ◽  
Psychophysiological Reactivity ◽  
Specific Objective ◽  
Religious Cult ◽  
Religious Thinking

Presenting specialty literature background in: organic chemistry, neurology, theology and clinical psychology, in order to conceptualize and bring to the forefront the interdependency between organic chemistry, neurology, psychology and religion in describing the implications of religious thinking in therapeutic compliance is a first objective of the present paper. As such, we addressed the importance of neurotransmitters in the neurophysiology of spiritual interventions. Another specific objective was defined as measuring psychological reactions, components of the moral and religious structure of human personality, with the help of psychophysiological involved factors, in rapport with therapeutic compliance. According to the descriptive statistic of data, we found that those who do not adhere to any religious cult have greater chances of being diagnosed with a disease that necessitates daily treatment and monitoring (the percentage found was 20%), in comparison with those who are part of a religious cult (6.67 %). The estimated non-linear regression model to confirm the interdependency between the medial psychophysiological reactivity to religious stimulus and the medial score obtained in the compliance questionnaire was validated by the values of R = 0.99 and p-value=0.00≈10-10<0.05). As such, we can accept the hypothesis that “there is a statistically significant association between religious thinking and compliance”. On the other hand, the hypothesis “there is a statistically significant association between religious thinking and compliance” was validated, using the t test, only at 40%, as the results of the t test were only considered on significant components of the applied MARS questionnaire. The results given by approaching the two hypotheses through the mixture of psychophysiological and application of the MARS questionnaire consistently highlighted an image of importance of religious thinking in therapeutic compliance. The current study is useful in motivating adherents of any religion, in our study, the Christian belief, to improve their compliance. Keywords: oxcytocin, vassopressin, MARS scale, therapeutic compliance, religious experience

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Rivers
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fundamental Importance ◽  
Christian Belief ◽  
Pilgrim's Progress ◽  
Organizational Differences ◽  
Book Publication

The Introduction summarizes the aims and methods of the book, explains the title, taken from Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, addresses the paradox of the otherworldly aims of religion and the worldly means of book publication, lists the principal questions the book sets out to answer and the denominations and groups covered, and points out the varied meanings of the terms ‘Methodist’ and ‘evangelical’. Despite the theological and organizational differences between these denominations and groups, they agreed on the fundamental importance of disseminating books for inculcating Christian belief and practice. To illustrate the long-term influence of such publications there is a brief analysis of Collins’s nineteenth-century series, ‘Select Christian Authors, with Introductory Essays’.

Hassidic Idealism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Lebens
Keyword(s):  
Christian Belief ◽  
The World ◽  
Attributes Of God ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Trinity

Hassidic idealism is the view that the world and everything in it (even you and I) exist only in the mind of God. To be is to be part of God’s dream, or the story that God is telling. This chapter argues that Hassidic idealism, coupled with an understanding of the philosophy and semantics of fiction, allows us to generate a distinctive solution to ‘the problem with sefirot.’ The sefirot are the attributes of God, as the Kabbalistic tradition understands them. The problem with the sefirot is that, as they are classically understood, belief in them seems to collapse into polytheism. The problem is analogous to certain problems facing the Christian belief in the Trinity. This chapter proposes an original Hassidic solution to this problem that relies upon various insights about fictions within fictions, and fictions that include their authors as a character.

Multi-scaled secularization or postsecular present? Christianity and migrant workers in Shenzhen, China

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 553-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quan Gao ◽  
Junxi Qian ◽  
Zhenjie Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Christian Belief ◽  
Religious Revival ◽  
Reflective Process ◽  
Geography Of Religion ◽  
Missionary Work ◽  
Rural Migrant ◽  
The World ◽  
The Church

This article provides a multi-scaled, grounded understanding of how secularization and re-sacralization occur simultaneously in a context of rapid modernization. Recent geographical scholarship in the geography of religion have exhibited deficient reflection over the geo-historical contingencies and complexities of secularization and secularity. This article seeks to re-conceptualize secularization as a multi-scaled, grounded and self-reflective process through an empirical study of the hybrid, contradictory processes of secularization and postsecular religious revival in a ‘gospel village’ in Shenzhen, China. In this rapidly urbanizing village, Christian belief inherited from Western missionary work has gradually lost its hold amidst modernization and urbanization. However, the inflow of rural migrant workers has re-invigorated the church. Christianity has created possibilities for postsecular ethics and resistances, enabling migrant workers to materially, symbolically and emotionally settle in a new socio-economic environment. Also, new situated religiosities arise as theological interpretations are used to negotiate and even legitimize social inequalities and alienation. This article therefore argues that the postsecular turn in human geography needs to consider how the postsecular articulates, and co-evolves with, secular conditions of being in the world. It highlights the hybrid and contested nature of the secularization process, which gives rise not only to disengaged belief and immanent consciousness but also to new aspirations for, and formations of, religiosities.

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