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Proving the existence of God is a perennial philosophical ambition. An armchair proof would be the jackpot. Ontological arguments promise as much. This Element studies the most famous ontological arguments from Anselm, Descartes, Plantinga, and others besides. While the verdict is that ontological arguments don't work, they get us entangled in fun philosophical puzzles, from philosophy of religion to philosophy of language, from metaphysics to ethics, and beyond.

God --- Philosophy and religion. --- Christianity and philosophy --- Religion and philosophy --- Religion --- Ontological argument --- Ontology --- Proof, Ontological.

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As humans, we want to live meaningfully, yet we are often driven by impulse. In Religion and the Meaning of Life, Williams investigates this paradox - one with profound implications. Delving into felt realities pertinent to meaning, such as boredom, trauma, suicide, denial of death, and indifference, Williams describes ways to acquire meaning and potential obstacles to its acquisition. This book is unique in its willingness to transcend a more secular stance and explore how one's belief in God may be relevant to life's meaning. Religion and the Meaning of Life's interdisciplinary approach makes it useful to philosophers, religious studies scholars, psychologists, students, and general readers alike. The insights from this book have profound real-world applications - they can transform how readers search for meaning and, consequently, how readers see and exist in the world.

Philosophy and religion. --- Meaning (Philosophy) --- Life. --- Religion. --- Spirituality. --- Spiritual-mindedness --- Philosophy --- Religion --- Spiritual life --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Life --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Christianity and philosophy --- Religion and philosophy

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Eine Definition von mystischer Erfahrung bildet den Angelpunkt dieser Studie, die das kontemplative Gebet des Centering Prayer von Thomas Keating OCSO kritisch würdigt und weiterentwickelt. Seit dem Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzil ist die Durchdringung der christlichen Berufung der theologischen Ethik nachdrücklich aufgegeben. Mit Blick auf die Berufung zu einem spirituell-religiösen Leben ist es daher zentral, die Schnittstelle zwischen dem sittlichen Anspruch einer philosophisch und theologisch deutbaren Wirklichkeit und dem eines personalen Gottes zu erforschen. Unter Bezug auf Heinrich Rombach, Karl Rahner und Alfons Auer wird eine kontemplativ induzierte Ethik entfaltet, die den Fokus auf die in der Kontemplation gewonnenen Einsicht in das 'je Bessere' des Handelns richtet.

Contemplation --- Prayer --- Christian ethics --- Philosophy and religion --- 271.3-7 --- 271.33 --- 271.33 Minderbroeders: Observanten --- Minderbroeders: Observanten --- 271.3-7 Franciskaanse liturgie en spiritualiteit --- Franciskaanse liturgie en spiritualiteit --- Christianity and philosophy --- Religion and philosophy --- Religion --- Ethical theology --- Moral theology --- Theology, Ethical --- Theology, Moral --- Christian life --- Christian philosophy --- Religious ethics --- Mental prayer --- Prayer, Mental --- Contemplative orders --- Meditation --- Mysticism --- Catholic Church --- Keating, Thomas. --- Keating, Joseph Parker Kirlin --- Keating, Parker --- Prayers --- Prayer - Catholic Church

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In this volume, Douglas Yoder uses the tools of modern and postmodern philosophy and biblical criticism to elucidate the epistemology of the Tanakh, the collection of writings that comprise the Hebrew Bible. Despite the conceptual sophistication of the Tanakh, its epistemology has been overlooked in both religious and secular hermeneutics. The concept of revelation, the genre of apocalypse, and critiques of ideology and theory are all found within or derive from epistemic texts of the Tanakh. Yoder examines how philosophers such as Spinoza, Hume, and Kant interacted with such matters. He also explores how the motifs of writing, reading, interpretation, image, and animals, topics that figure prominently in the work of Derrida, Foucault, and Nietzsche, appear also in the Tanakh. An understanding of Tanakh epistemology, he concludes, can lead to new appraisals of religious and secular life throughout the modern world.

Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) --- Knowledge, Theory of, in the Bible --- Philosophy and religion --- 221.08*3 --- Christianity and philosophy --- Religion and philosophy --- Religion --- Epistemology, Religious --- Religious epistemology --- Religious knowledge, Theory of --- Theology, Doctrinal --- 221.08*3 Theologie van het Oude Testament: themata --- Theologie van het Oude Testament: themata --- Biblical teaching --- Philosophy --- Bible. --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Knowledge, Theory of, in the Bible. --- Biblical teaching. --- Philosophy and religion.