John Hick, lecturer in the philosophy of religion at Cambridge University, has written one of the most serious and important studies of the problem of evil to appear in English for a long time. I t is a work both of historical interpretation and of systematic construction. While it is, under both aspects, not wholly invulnerable (what effort at reconciling evil and God ever is?), it is argued w...

In recent years, much of the debate within philosophy religion has focused on problem horrendous evils. Horrendous evils constitute a unique class which presumably poses stronger objection to existence omni-God than other classes However, while generally been taken be evidence against God, some philosophers have suggested that it may for God. This article discusses three different kinds theisti...

This article examines the evolution of “mystical discourse” in literature on Great Patriotic War from 1941 to 2008. It analyses content ideas about participation supernatural principles people’s relations and fate peoples different historical conditions. The author reveals gnoseological potential socio-cultural mission irrational knowledge that claims be universal truth. “transcendent vision” f...

This essay explains and analyzes Robert John Russell’s theory of divine action. Russell’s proposal has exercised significant influence on others working in the area of science and religion with interests in Christian systematic theology. It would be valuable to trace the lines of that influence, but I do not have space to do that here. I can testify to his influence in more personal terms, howe...

Corpus Paraensis Resumo: A condição de possibilidade primária para a existência uma filosofia é que os seres humanos pensem e, pensando, transmitam suas memórias e reflexões em escritos, ou seja, exista traditio philosophica – herança transmissão desse pensar. O identifica, grosso modo, experiência do pensamento seu registro na palavra-texto (escrita) não apenas palavra-oral (discurso). secundá...

Some theists maintain that they need not answer the threat posed to theistic belief by natural evil; they have reason enough to believe that God exists and it renders impotent any threat that natural evil poses to theism. Explicating how God and natural evil co-exist is not necessary since they already know both exist. I will argue that, even granting theists the knowledge they claim, this does...

Abstract The problem of the goodness God, freedom man and origin Evil, i.e. theodicy, proves to be particularly acute in Twelver Shiʿi Islam, because historical awareness evil within community fundamental dualism, metaphysical as well moral, doctrine. However, this was subject various essays by Iranian philosophers Neoplatonic inspiration, trying harmonize teachings tradition (i.e. ḥadīṯ s attr...

SHIRLEY A. ROE, Matter, life, and generation. Eighteenth-century embryology and the HallerWolffdebate, Cambridge University Press, 1981, pp. x, 214, illus., £16.00. Professor Roe has set herself modest aims, but she fulfils them with convincing scholarship and clarity of exposition. Recognizing, as Jacques Roger showed in his magisterial Les sciences de la vie dans la pense'e franCaise du XVIIi...

‘Systems theory’ is familiar to many as the scientific enterprise that includes the study of chaos, networks, and complex adaptive systems. It is less widely appreciated that the systems research program offers a world view that transcends the individual scientific disciplines. We do not live, as some argue, in a post-metaphysical age, but rather at a time when a new metaphysics is being constr...

Is there a journal less likely than Modern Theology to devote special issue the natural sciences? When we were in grad school, would have said, “No and I hope they never descend that. You see, does real theology.” Real theology, thought, should always be queen of sciences. We had picked up fads our generation, one such fad was idea that whenever scientists invited theological table, then theolo...