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In view of modern science, I realize that Adam could not have been the first human being. But was there still a historical Adam who served as the first theologically significant human being (i.e.,...
23 July 2018 7,422 92 View
To put it in philosophical terms, is there a feasible world where a libertarian free human has absolute power but does not become totally corrupt?
18 June 2018 2,865 79 View
I'm interested in both personal better/worse and societal better/worse.
14 May 2018 9,850 62 View
I'm also wondering how you differentiate the two concepts.
14 May 2018 5,754 88 View
Why or why not?
02 April 2018 1,785 80 View
This is a key question in epistemology.
19 March 2018 9,628 69 View
A sacrament is typically understood as a channel or link to the divine or as a visible sign of an invisible grace.
28 February 2018 870 21 View
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17 February 2018 2,697 15 View
Why or why wouldn't you find the psychological egoist's explanation plausible?
17 February 2018 1,654 6 View
Is it reason, intelligence, superior nature, rights, or something else?
14 February 2018 2,825 20 View
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Passages such as the following make it sound like the Prophet Muhammad thought the Christian Trinity was comprised of God, Mary, and their offspring Jesus: God will say: ‘Jesus Son of Mary, did...
10 February 2018 7,380 11 View
If so, how? If not, why not?
04 February 2018 9,879 26 View
How is your answer compatible with the perfection of God?
03 February 2018 8,720 28 View
02 February 2018 7,898 35 View
Or do they have the freedom to resist their desires and simply act as unmoved movers?
31 January 2018 6,253 21 View
If intrinsic, then Scripture is the Word of God no matter whether anyone reads it or responds to it. If instrumental, then Scripture becomes the Word of God when God chooses to use it to generate...
24 January 2018 8,401 21 View
Individual liberty would guarantee persons the right to have as many children as they wanted, while environmental protection might limit the number of children persons could have in order to...
08 January 2018 7,555 13 View
Should nonhuman species and ecosystems be loved as neighbors, or are neighbors exclusively human beings?
30 December 2017 1,907 21 View
23 December 2017 8,269 12 View
The Christian tradition has always emphasized prudence, courage, temperance, justice (the four classical virtues), faith, hope, and love (the three theological virtues).
21 December 2017 2,308 29 View
Why or why not? If so, who are some of these exemplars?
17 December 2017 563 16 View
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15 December 2017 8,016 10 View
Islam and Judaism are unitarian monotheisms, holding that the one God contains a single center of self-consciousness (i.e., person). Christianity is a trinitarian monotheism, holding that the one...
06 December 2017 2,917 22 View
Tillich wrote: "Adoration performed for the sake of man's self-glorification is self-defeating. It never reaches God" (Systematic Theology, 3:191).
01 December 2017 8,128 12 View
It's easy to make an argument that particular claims recorded in a scripture are factually true (one just needs to use the standard historical criteria of authenticity). But a writing containing...
29 November 2017 7,699 38 View
Why do you find that element persuasive?
07 November 2017 9,216 22 View
Among the possibilities I can think of are personal transformation and social transformation. I'd love to hear your thoughts!
22 September 2017 6,945 14 View
The issues in the conflict are longstanding. It seems next to impossible for either side, especially on the extreme, to even imagine a way that the conflict can be resolved. For the people of the...
11 September 2017 3,408 19 View
On the one hand, it seems that Confucianism is essentially an ethical way of life and a way of ordering society. On the other hand, it seems that Confucianism is an authentic spiritual pathway.
07 September 2017 7,718 9 View
What is the correct theory of knowledge in the domain of law? In other words, under what conditions can we say that we legally know something?
25 August 2017 8,898 3 View
Does it make good sense or does it raise problems to say that numbers, properties, laws of logic, and so forth are ideas in the mind of God?
20 August 2017 393 8 View
In the current literature there are two prevalent answers: during the Hasmonean dynasty (164 to 63 BCE) and at the Council of Jamnia (90 CE). Do you agree with either position or take a third...
18 August 2017 7,791 5 View
Do the two principles ever give conflicting advice? If so, which do you think is a better guide to our moral obligations?
16 August 2017 4,877 3 View
In moral philosophy, the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing (DDA) holds that it is always morally worse to do harm than to allow that same harm to occur. But this doesn't seem obvious to me. Is it...
01 January 1970 4,043 6 View
Classical foundationalism, Reidian/Plantingian foundationalism, or something else? Why?
01 January 1970 5,062 6 View
