A Different God? Dionysos and Ancient Polytheism

The Ancient Mariner, God, And Animals

The Indian Triumph of Dionysos

This silver crescent was the ear, or handle, of a shallow dish. Such another dish was once found in the harbor at Bizerta in Tunisia, during dredging operations; it is circular, with two crescent handles, weighs nearly ten pounds, and is about a yard across, over all. If the dish to which our handle belonged was of the same pattern, its span was 21 2 inches. The handle is a thick piece of solid...

God Knows (But does God Believe?)

The standard view in epistemology is that propositional knowledge entails belief. Positive arguments are seldom given for this entailment thesis, however; instead, its truth is typically assumed. Against the entailment thesis, Myers-Schulz and Schwitzgebel (forthcoming) report that a non trivial percentage of people think that there can be propositional knowledge without belief. In this paper, ...

God, Love, and Interreligious Dialogue

The monotheistic religions that valorize love typically believe that their love for God should be extended to God's creatures and, in particular, to one's fellow human beings. Yet, in practice, the love of the Christian or Muslim or Hindu monotheist doesn't always extend to the love of the religious other. Precisely how, then, should the adherents of the major monotheistic religions respond to ...

A god for guts.