Four studies examined whether awareness of mortality intensifies belief in supernatural agents among North Americans. In Studies 1 and 2, mortality salience led to more religiosity, stronger belief in God, and in divine intervention. In Studies 3 and 4, mortality salience increased supernatural agent beliefs even when supernatural agency was presented in a culturally alien context (divine Buddh...

This paper proposes an encoding a background-implying problem in attribute exploration of manyvalued context into a SAT problem. A background-implying problem is whether an attribute implication is implied by some other attribute implications and is also compatible with background knowledge. In the case of manyvalued context, the background knowledge will be its scales which are also formal con...

In this paper I will discuss how joint causation as suggested by Arthur Peacocke can on the one hand serve us in the defense of downward causation within emergence theory and on the other hand lead to a deeper understanding of divine action and interaction in panentheism. The question of downward causation lies at the heart of emergence theory and is of great significance for the question wheth...

The doctrine of divine simplicity, the doctrine that God has no physical or metaphysical complexity whatsoever, is not a doctrine designed to induce immediate philosophical acquiescence. There are severe questions about its coherence. And even if those questions can be answered satisfactorily in favour of the doctrine, there remains the question why anyone should accept it. Thomas V. Morris rai...

In the field of hioethics, freedom and autonomy assume the ability of self-regulation and determination. If one has the ability to make one 's own decisions, then one represents an autonomous and free person. Such a view of autonomy faces many difficidties, because it idtimately limits those who can be considered autonomous. Tlie Orthodox theology of the one Hypostasis of Jesus Christ presents ...