1 The Dilemma of the Theistic Platonist Theists generally hold that God is the creator of all there is distinct from himself. Traditionally, the scope of God's creative activity has extended across two disjoint realms: the physical, whose chief exemplars are ordinary middle-size objects, and the mental or spiritual, encompassing such things as angels and souls. Now, many theists are also platon...

Abstract My claim in this article is that the thesis Buddhism has no God, insofar as it taken to apply universally, false. I defend by interpreting a central text East-Asian – The Awakening of Faith Mahāyāna through lenses perfect being theology (PBT), research programme philosophy religion attempts provide description God two-step process: (1) defining terms maximal greatness; (2) inferring pr...

The question which has to be answered concerning Whiteheads metaphysic is whether his system is completed with Process and Reality [29] or whether his metaphysics only comes fully into view in his later works (esp. Adventures of Ideas [30] and Modes of Thought [31]). It will be argued that his main ideas are already fully developed in Process and Reality. Especially regarding the concept of tim...

Zola, in his book The Experimental Novel, introduces the aspects of what is now called the naturalistic novel. Later on, Zola’s ideas were exported to the English literature and the works of English novelists. George Gissing is one of the English authors who have successfully adopted the premises and the key elements of Zola’s naturalistic novel in their work. This paper deals with the naturali...

Personhood theism is the view that God exists and a person. It often claimed that, whatever conclusions might be reached abstractly by philosophers theologians, Christianity as lived out practically embodies belief in personhood theism. In this article, I critically examine claim argue Christian prayer liturgical practice does not fact embody it begs questions against non-personhood theist.