Like most of the great early modern philosophers, George Berkeley was not a university professor. He pursued, instead, a career in the clergy of the Anglican Church of Ireland. Berkeley was ordained in 1710, the same year he published his Treatise on the Principles of Human Knowledge (Berman 1994, 17). His first clerical post was as chaplain to Lord Peterborough from 1713-1714 (80). From here, ...

istorically, the Christian tradition has heavily relied on Aristotle’s ethical philosophy to provide a conceptual basis for the articulation of its own ethical doctrines, but Aristotle’s concepts are coming up less and less frequently in contemporary ethical debates. The Roman Catholic Church, however, continues to be characterized by their reliance on Aristotelian formulations of theological d...

The purpose of the present article is to outline a pentecostal model special divine action by combining work Christian philosopher James K. A. Smith and theologian Amos Yong. past discussions in SDA can be characterized lack pneumatology. Pentecostalism, on other hand, strongly committed active Holy Spirit world today, beyond Spirit’s general providence. Thus, pentecostalism, with its pneumatol...

Dr. Willmer's second edition of this little book fulfills his stated purpose ... to correlate some of the numerous fragments of scattered data which have so far been obtained and to orientate them in such a way as to illustrate the more fundamental contributions which the method has made to physiological knowledge, and to show the manner in which a change of outlook has already been brought abo...

The publication of Copernicus’ On the Revolutions Heavenly Spheres (since now on referred to as Revolutions) marked beginning Scientific Revolution. Christian doctrine played a key role for emergence scientific turning point, that brought about transition from qualitative quantitative approach natural phenomena. Although Polish scientist was not philosopher in ordinary sense term, he shared wit...

While introducing Hannah Arendt’s attitude towards labor in her works, Christian Fuchs’ concept of digital is introduced, and view summarized for contemporary The critique the state, hidden words behind thesis, tell people to reflect on current materialistic consumer-oriented policy guidance, be alert danger laborers who are under high-tech. At same time, it expresses as a political philosopher...

John B. Cobb Jr., a well-known theologian, philosopher, and environmentalist in the United States, has developed his own participatory ecological theology from process philosophy to theology. Some scholars believe that it belongs distorted form of anthropocentrism, while others suggest biocentrism. However, through Cobb’s attention exploration environmental crises interactions with other enviro...

In this two hundredth anniversary year of his death, we are met to celebrate the life and career of Joseph Priestley—and most of us celebrate the wrong man, for the wrong reasons. We celebrate the pneumatic chemist who, in a flurry of random experiments made over a period of five years, isolated and partially identified nine new gases, including oxygen—and the man who spent roughly five times a...