In this paper I argue that J. L. Schellenberg’s Divine Hiddenness Argument is committed to a problematic implication that is weakened by research in cognitive psychology on affective forecasting. Schellenberg’s notion of a nonresistant nonbeliever logically implies that for any such person, it is true that she would form the proper belief in God if provided with what he calls “probabilifying” e...

Orthodoxy, and other so-called world religions that were complicit with colonialist expansion and its repression of the “other peoples” (indigenous), their rites and beliefs. For centuries, colonial societies have denied that indigenous peoples had “religions” at all; as the great photographer of Native North American cultures Edward S. Curtis stated, “There seems to be a broadly prevalent idea...

This article explores the poet’s tension between his fear of environmental obliteration and a hope for spiritual regeneration in Walt Whitman’s poems Compost. To do so, it applies ecocritical perspective which studies about relationship man with biotic a-biotic world literary text. Whitman, poems, unfolds reverence to natural world. He celebrates beauty everyday life nature. In these he glorifi...

Abstract In part 1 the concepts of top-down and bottom-up approaches were introduced as a helpful way analysing landscape youth children’s mission ministry. This second begins to suggest constructive solution question bringing together which understands both divine human action in individual. James Loder’s appropriation Chalcedonic descriptions divine-human connection come with his analogia Spi...

Theistic and atheistic beliefs respectively play a fundamental role in the definition of man's free will and moral responsibility, so far as they can determine the nature, quality, and quantity of human's freedom. After believing in God, the belief in a revealed or a non-revealed religion and the manner in which God’s attributes are interpreted play an essential role in the definition of free w...