Naturalism has replaced Christianity as the main religion of the Western world. Though the teaching that natural evolutionary processes can account of the origin of all living species has never been proven, that teaching is central to the philosophy that now dominates Western scholarly thinking. Even evangelicals have become less willing to defend the early chapters of Genesis against the encro...

in descartes theological writing, he promotes two jointly puzzling theses: t1) god freely creates the eternal truths (i.e. the creation doctrine) and t2) the eternal truths are necessarily true. according to t1 god freely chooses which propositions to make necessary, contingent and possible. however the creation doctrine makes the acceptance of t2 tenuous for the creation doctrine implies that ...

This research aims to analyse the implementation of character education based on values Pope John XXIII (Truth, love, freedom, and justice) at YPPK Yoanes High School, Merauke, South Papua Province. Apart from that, supporting influencing factors their impact strengthening profile Pancasila students. uses a qualitative descriptive method with case study design. The data sources are school princ...

This paper examines two fundamental claims by Michel Henry on his philosophy’s relationship with classical phenomenology (Husserl and Heidegger) Christianity. It shows in what way Henry’s is the radicalization absolutization of phenomenology: pure phenomenological truth identification appearing appears rather than separation two. According to Henry, notions life fully accordance Christianity’s ...

The Oromo of Ethiopia, the largest ethnic group, have their own indigenous religion known as Waaqeffanna. They believe in one Waaqa guraacha (black God) – God who created universe and various forms life. has multiple attributes. is He before everything else. Uumaa (a creator world). hunda beekaa (omniscient). Waaqni gonkumaa kan hin Duune (God immortal). hundaa tolaa (omnibenevolent). danda’aa ...

©  P. D. Magnus Thomas Reid’s reply to scepticism involves an appeal to common sense. Since he often claims that no defense of common sense is required, he is sometimes misread as claiming that no defense could be given. Yet Reid does defend common sense. This paper explores how he does so. Before engaging Reid directly, however, I want to consider two ...

11 The lordship of Christ over all of a Christian’s life is an assumption basic to Christianity. The acknowledgement of his lordship in psychology is especially problematic today because of the pervasive naturalism and neo-positivism of modern psychology. Nevertheless, an understanding of the kingdom concept in Scripture suggests that Christians are inevitably called to work towards the express...

Dr. Seed’s quote concerning the cloning of human beings seems to give the unnerving impression that he believes man’s relationship with God involves developing a human divinity as we “become one with Him.” Has Dr. Seed bitten from the same forbidden fruit consumed by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and accepted the lie from Satan that, “You will not surely die...For God knows that when you e...

One task in legal decision making is to decide about the facts of a case on the basis of the available evidence. This task is not always easy 1 ; often the evidence in a case points in different directions, for example, when witnesses contradict each other. Determining what exactly can be concluded from the evidence is also not an easy or trivial task. For instance, when an accused’s footprints...