The primary purpose of the present study was to create and validate a scale assessing the extent to which people believe in divine intervention. A six-item Belief in Divine Intervention Scale (BDIS) was one of six scales administered to 204 students at a community college and a Christian liberal arts college. The BDIS displayed a high level of internal consistency (coefficient alpha = .910), an...

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The specific question faced in this essay is whether special divine revelation has received embodiment in Holy Scripture. Are the Old and New Testaments to be acknowledged, not only as containing a record of the history of such revelation, but also as being themselves the very Word of God? Do they constitute divine revelation because of their intrinsic character, altogether apart from the respo...

We present familiar principles involving objects and classes (of objects), pairing (on objects), choice (selecting elements from classes), positive classes (elements of an ultrafilter), and definable classes (definable using the preceding notions). We also postulate the existence of a divine object in the formalized sense that it lies in every definable positive class. ZFC (even extended with c...

In Laws, 945 b-948 b, Plato introduces the figure of eúthӯnoi or “inspectors” relating them directly to common cult Helios and Apollo. doing so, I argue has intended connect both Republic Laws through Idea Good. So divine couple Helios-Apollo would be an author’s wink his immediate readers, Academy members, so that they can perceive there a veiled allusion most important object learning: Good (...

Abstract Kant’s Naturrecht Feyerabend has recently gained more sustained attention for its role in clarifying published positions political philosophy. However, too little been given to the lecture’s relation Gottfried Achenwall, whose book was textbook course. In this paper, I will examine how Kant rejected and transforms Achenwall’s natural law system Lectures. Specifically, argue that proble...

Purpose. The study aims to define and comprehend the phenomenon of freedom as an anthropological problem in Christian philosophical heritage A. Augustine H. Skovoroda. objectives are: a) identify main aspects philosophy Augustine; b) clarify essence specificity understanding anthropology Skovoroda; c) compare peculiarities statement by Theoretical basis. achievement purpose is based on theoreti...

The understanding of God’s mode existence as eternal makes a significant difference to variety issues in contemporary philosophy religion, including, for instance, the apparent incompatibility divine omniscience with human freedom. But concept has come under attack current philosophical discussion inefficacious solve puzzles which it seems so promising. Although Boethius early 6th century thoug...

This article investigates whether the canon of Christian Holy Scripture is properly understood as a gift and, if so, what theological implications this might entail. Following introduction, has three main sections. The first section proposes an expanded grammar by which to describe production and reception in church, under superintending sovereignty divine will action. second offers guide recen...