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...

Divine view is to production and industrialization a part of the process of economic development. The divine rules of governance become Ibadah (form of worship), hence industrialization within the divine ambit is also an Ibadah. Divine messages, therefore, stresses both the moral quality and skills in the production of goods. People are getting benefits from industry from different ways, someti...

The Christian Church has traditionally held that the inspiration of Holy Scripture is verbal, plenary, and confluent. But such an affirmation may seem to be incoherent. For if Scripture is the product of both divine and human free agency, then it seems impossible that God should have sufficient control of the various authors of Scripture so as to produce a Word that is verbally and plenarily hi...

The very unusual symbolic aspects of Nonstandard Analysis are discussed. Most formal constructions are not presented. The definitions, interrelations and symbolic manipulations of six distinct NSA symbolic languages are presented. Examples are given for these interrelations and symbolic manipulations. These symbolic forms are interpreted theologically relative to the characterizing of Divine at...

the concept of “infinite essence” that is both philosophically and theologically important, has passed many different evolutions in western history of thought. presocratics has evaluated it in two different ways. anaximender and melissus agree that the principle substance is infinite and divine, but neither absolutly transcendent nor anthropomorphic. the infinite is the fusis in its substantial...

Some of Spinoza’s most well-known doctrines concern what kinds of beings there are and how they are related to each other. For example, he claims that: (1) there is only one substance; (2) this substance has infinitely many attributes; (3) this substance is God or nature; (4) each of these attributes express the divine essence; and (5) all else is a mode of the one substance. These claims have ...

in order to express his visionary experiences, baha-e-valad has innovated his own symbols and imagery. such illustrations of imagination may be interpreted as the product of his intuitive experiences of visits to the realm of ideas referred to as a vision of one's self in psychological, mystic terms. the present study, in an attempt to study and analyze the nature of the symbols in baha-e-valad...