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The Hermeneutical Keys to William James’s Philosophy of Religion: Protestant Impulses, Vital Belief

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Zehnder D. J.

Forum Philosophicum

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2010

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vol. 15

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issue 2

301-316

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This essay argues that the American psychologist and philosopher William James should be viewed in the Lutheran Reformation’s tradition because this viewpoint offers the hermeneutical key to his philosophy of religion. Though James obviously didn’t ascribe to biblical authority, he expressed the following religious sensibilities made possible by Martin Luther and his contemporaries: 1) challenge of prevailing systems, 2) anti-rationalism, 3) being pro-religious experience and dynamic belief, 4) need for a personal, caring God, and also 5) a gospel of religious comfort. This essay asks, in one specific form, how religious concerns can hold steady over time but cause very different expressions of faith.

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Omnipotence and the Vicious Circle Principle

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Amini M.

Forum Philosophicum

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2009

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vol. 14

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issue 2

247-258

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The classical paradox of the stone, namely, whether an omnipotent being can create a stone that the being itself cannot lift is traditionally circumvented by a response propounded by Thomas Aquinas, that even omnipotent beings cannot accomplish the logically impossible. However, in their paper “The New Paradox of the Stone,” Alfred R. Mele and M.P. Smith attempt to reinstate the paradox without falling foul of the Thomistic logical constraint. According to Mele and Smith, instead of interpreting the paradox as posing a competition between a pair of omnipotent beings—represented by God at two different times—the paradox can be reformulated as posing a question about simultaneous competition between a pair of omnipotent beings. The purpose of this paper is, therefore, to probe the possibility of the simultaneous existence of two omnipotent beings in view of the theological arguments for the “unicity of the omnipotent.”

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Myslet metafyziku antropologicky: Impulsy k teologické metafyzice z oblasti filosofie náboženství a filosofické teologie

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Kolářová L.

Studia theologica

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2020

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vol. 1

113-135

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The article deals with the problem of an anthropological understanding of metaphysics in theology and addresses its relevance against a confrontation with an ontological understanding of theological metaphysics. The article format does not allow for a comprehensive treatise but raises the issue as a principal question that can comprehend the problem’s basic context and aspire to an answer as to whose conclusiveness should be – in discussion with philosophical-religious and philosophical-theological theorems – rationally autonomous. The text is based on the works of authors whose thinking a) enables an identification of a "connecting place" for metaphysics in theology, b) raises the possibility of an "anthropological connection" to theological metaphysics, c) helps recognise what is representative of the current state of reflection on this matter in the field of theological thinking, d) and itself elaborates the anthropological viewpoint for theological metaphysical thinking. The thread of content proceeds from a philosophical-religious typology of talking about God via a presentation of the anthropological viewpoint of metaphysics towards the standing of metaphysics in contemporary theology and the search for points of contact in T. Pröpper’s theological anthropology. The conclusion refers to the possibility of process thought for an anthropologically relevant embedding in theological metaphysics.

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The Hermeneutical Keys to William James’s Philosophy of Religion: Protestant Impulses, Vital Belief

Omnipotence and the Vicious Circle Principle

Myslet metafyziku antropologicky: Impulsy k teologické metafyzice z oblasti filosofie náboženství a filosofické teologie