This paper will attempt to sketch a historical outline of ideas relating to revelation by tracing the development of a concept or topos which has preoccupied Western thinkers since antiquity and which became crucial during the Romantic period — the concept of the Daemon, and the general mode or sensibility referred to as the “Daemonic.” In Classical thought, the term “Daemonic” is associated wi...

The Heideggerian account of the ontotheological constitution of Western metaphysics has been extremely influential for contemporary philosophy of religion and for philosophical perspectives on theology and the divine. This paper introduces and contrasts two central strategies for approaching the question of the divine in a nonor post-ontotheological manner. The first and more established approa...

The examination of the word “‘izza” (honor) in the divine discourse and its attribution to God, the Prophet (s), and the believers is important in determining and directing the personal and social life policies. In this article (which is on the manifestation of the divine honor in Imām Ḥusayn’s heroic act), we aim to illustrate some of the honorable deeds of Imām Ḥusayn on his way from Medina t...

Standard analyses of omniscience are advanced in terms of a being's knowing the truth value of propositions. For example, Kenny writes that 'The doctrine of omni-science is easy to formulate precisely: it is the doctrine that for all p, then God knows that p.1 Richard Swinburne proposes that 'To say of a person P that he is omniscient at time t is to say that at t P knows of every true proposit...

According to divine-command metaethics (DCM), whatever is morally good or right has that status because, and only because, it conforms to God:� will. I argue that DCM is false or vacuous: either DCM is false, or else there are no instantiated moral properties, and no moral truths, to which DCM can even apply. The sort of criticism I offer is familiar, but I develop it in what I believe is a nov...

Ariell Watson November 5, 2015 Lumen et Vita Symposium Witnessing Lot’s Wife: Traumatic Memory and Vicarious Trauma In Judeo-Christian popular imagination, the cities of “Sodom and Gomorrah” epitomize sinful hedonism and divine annihilation. In the midst of the apocalyptic scene of sulfur, fire, and destruction in the book of Genesis, we find a peculiar verse: “But Lot’s wife, behind him, looke...

One of the most important foundations of knowing and interpreting the Qur’ān, the Torah, and the Gospel is the belief in the infallibility and impeccability of the words and propositions of these divine scriptures. If the verses and statements of the noble Qur’ān and the Testaments during the revelation era and the ensuing times have been afflicted with distortion and contradiction, then they c...