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This Element examines aspects of monotheism and hope. Distinguishing monotheism from various forms of nontheistic religions, it explores how God transcends the terms used to describe the religious ultimate. The discussion then turns to the nature of hope and examines how the concept has been used by Augustine, Aquinas, Kierkegaard, and Moltmann, among others. The Christian tradition to which these monotheists belong associates hope and faith with love. In the final section, Wainwright shows the varieties of this kind of love in Islam, Christianity, and theistic Hinduism, and defends the sort of love valorized by them against some charges against it. He examines why the loves prized in these traditions are imperfect because their adherents invariably believe that the love that they cherish is superior to that cherished by others.

Monotheism. --- Hope --- Pantheism --- Religion --- Theism --- Trinity --- Polytheism --- Religious aspects.

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After offering a brief overview of the role of faith within Judaism, Christianity and Islam, an interdisciplinary analysis of faith, belief, belief systems and the act of believing is undertaken. The debate over the nature of doctrine between George Lindbeck and Alister McGrath brings into focus four ways in which beliefs can be employed: expressive, interpretative, formative and referential/relational. An analysis of monotheistic belief ensues which demonstrates how it can function meaningfully in each of these modes, including the last, where insights from phenomenology and relational ontology, as well as philosophical theology, favour a participatory approach in which God is encountered not as an object of investigation, but as that transcendent Other whose worship is the fulfilment of human being. The study concludes by highlighting convergences between the nature of faith presented in the initial scriptural overview and that developed throughout the rest of the study.

Monotheism. --- Faith. --- Religious belief --- Theological belief --- Belief and doubt --- Religion --- Salvation --- Theological virtues --- Trust in God --- Pantheism --- Theism --- Trinity --- Polytheism

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This Element traces the effects of science's rise on the cultural status of monotheism. Starting in the past, it shows how monotheism contributed to science's rise, and how, returning the favour, science provided aid and support, until fairly recently, for the continuing success of monotheism in the west. Turning to the present, the Element explores reasons for supposing that explanatorily, and even on an existential level, science is taking over monotheism's traditional roles in western culture. These reasons are found to be less powerful than is commonly supposed, though the existential challenge can be made effective when framed in an unusual and indirect manner. Finally, the Element considers how the relationship between science's high standing and the status of monotheism might appear in the future. Could something like monotheism rise again, and might science help it do so? The Element concludes that an affirmative answer is possible.

Religion and science. --- Monotheism. --- Pantheism --- Religion --- Theism --- Trinity --- Polytheism --- Christianity and science --- Geology --- Geology and religion --- Science --- Science and religion --- Religious aspects

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This e-book gathers eight papers devoted to specific aspects of Cicero's engagement with Roman religion, and seeks to make a wider contribution to the understanding of Cicero's work as historical evidence. By engaging with religion as a fundamental factor of social cohesion and political stability, both in his theoretical works and his speeches, Cicero shaped a wide-ranging and ambitious discourse around themes and images that were firmly located in first-century BCE Rome. His contribution also proved very influential in the centuries to come.The volume focuses on the relationship between law, religion, and religious authority in Cicero; the interplay between divine images, ritual contexts, and the conceptualization of the divine; Cicero's construction of a Greek deity for a Roman audience; the role of religious elements in the shaping of a Roman political identity; the tension between 'natural law' and Roman pietas; the problem of divine and human foresight; the relationship between theoretical views of the gods and late Republican public cult; and the reception, use, and readaptation of Ciceronian theology in the English Enlightenment.

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"These essays examine how various communities remembered and commemorated their shared past through the lens of utopia and its corollary, dystopia, providing a framework for the reinterpretation of rapidly changing religious, cultural and political realities of the turbulent period from 300 to 750 CE. The common theme of the chapters is the utopian ideals of religious groups, whether these are inscribed on the body, on the landscape, in texts or other cultural objects. The volume is the first to apply this conceptual framework to Late Antiquity, when historically significant conflicts arose between the adherents of four major religious identities: Greco-Roman "pagans", newly dominant Christians, diaspora Jews who were more or less persecuted, depending on the current regime, and the emerging religion and power of Islam. Late Antiquity was thus a period when dystopian realities competed with memories of a mythical Golden Age, variously conceived according to the religious identity of the group. The contributors come from a range of disciplines, including cultural studies, religious studies, ancient history and art history, and employ both theoretical and empirical approaches. This volume is unique in the range of evidence it draws upon, both visual and textual, to support the basic argument, that utopia in Late Antiquity, whether conceived spiritually, artistically or politically, was a place of the past but also of the future, even of the Afterlife. Memories of Utopia will be of interest to historians, archaeologists, and art historians of the later Roman empire, and those working on religion in Late Antiquity and Byzantium"--

Utopias --- Religious aspects. --- History --- Byzantine Empire --- Civilization. --- Ideal states --- States, Ideal --- Utopian literature --- Political science --- Socialism --- Voyages, Imaginary --- Dystopias --- Religious aspects --- 27 <08> --- 27 "03/07" --- 27 <08> Histoire de l'Eglise--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- 27 <08> Kerkgeschiedenis--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- Histoire de l'Eglise--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen --- 27 "03/07" Histoire de l'Eglise--?"03/07" --- 27 "03/07" Kerkgeschiedenis--?"03/07" --- Histoire de l'Eglise--?"03/07" --- Kerkgeschiedenis--?"03/07" --- Religiones --- Cristianismo --- Judaismo --- Islam --- Aspectos religiosos --- Historia --- Conference of Carthage --- christianity and paganism in late antiquity --- christianity and polytheism in late antiquity --- christians and pagans in late antiquity --- christians and polytheists in late antiquity --- christian identity and sacred sites --- christian tombs under julian --- creation of christian identity --- early christianity middle east --- early christianity north africa --- early christians and diaspora jews --- early christians and greco roman art --- early christians and pagan art --- early christian environment --- early christian landscapes --- early christian middle east --- early christian north africa --- Formation of Early Christian Identity --- Gregory of Tours’ Lives of the Saints --- greco-roman religion and christianity --- idols and early christianity --- jerome and christian identity --- julian and cynicism --- julian and the cynics --- julian the apostate --- late antique eusebia --- late antique ritual space --- Manipulation of Memory under Julian --- mediterranean ritual space --- memories of utopia