W.V. Quine’s thesis of the indeterminacy of translation is the theory which launched a thousand doctorates. During the 1970s it sometimes seemed to be as firmly entrenched a dogma among North American philosophers as the existence of God was among medieval theologians. Although now subject to much more by way of critical appraisal, Quine’s work is still, rightly, at the forefront of contemporar...

Статья посвящена анализу становления нравственного идеала в русской культуре XIX в. рамках религиозно-философской парадигмы. Установлено, что лице как «светских богословов», так и богословов церковных подготовил почву для главной мировоззренческой дискуссии области антропологии – между представителями двух антропологических парадигм: философсконаучной, материалистической. Фактически все модусы ...

Historic continuity exists between the "Old Princeton" and Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. While this could be considered from various vantage points, it is especially evident how theologians both institutions have engaged interrelationship biblical systematic theology. These theological traditions had an abiding concern for interpreting Scriptures correctly due to their deep ...

All institutions are the product of human activity. This article will consider how development Sacrament Orders is embedded in social construction church as an institution, with a leadership structure and system symbols rituals. Drawing on perspectives sociologists, theologians constructionists, it focus churches West more highly developed liturgical traditions, examining history this sacrament...

The article honours Denise Ackermann by seeking to understand why she named Karl Rahner as one of the theologians who influenced her own life and thought. Since influence seems flow from his Ignatian spirituality practices listening discerning, attempts background, nature, role spiritual practice in Rahner’s work. In this process, tension between transcendental categorical thinking for him il...

Igor Stravinsky?s philosophical and religious trajectory included transformative encounters with Catholic theologians philosophers in the Paris of 1920s 1930s. The most important amongst these was Jacques Maritain, whose neoThomist philosophy applied to art significance Stravinsky, particular through its application life work fellow Russian ?migr? composer Arthur Louri?. This article examines r...

This paper defends the view that philosophical propositions are merely relatively true, i.e. true relative to a doxastic perspective defined at least in part by a non-inferential belief-acquiring method. Here is the strategy: first, the primary way that contemporary philosophers defend their views is through the use of rational intuition, and this method delivers non-inferential, basic beliefs ...

The advances made in life-sustaining technology over the last twenty years have permitted the prolongation of biological life with questionable outcomes. Patients' experiences with pain, suffering, indignity and financial burdens have forced the medical community to reconsider sustaining life at all costs. Currently this reconsideration has issued into the acceptance of quality-of-life (QoL) cr...

In the past few decades the West has witnessed an explosion of interest among psychologists, theologians, scientists, and philosophers alike in what Huxley (1970) has called philosophia perennis,the 'perennial philosophy', a universal doctrine as to the nature of man and reality lying at the very heart of every major metaphysical tradition, whether that of the Hindus, the Buddhists, the Amerind...