Questions tagged [theology]
Theology is the field of study and analysis that treats of God and of God's attributes and relations to the universe; the study of divine things or religious truth; divinity.
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What are some accessible books that explain what "Being" means in philosophy and how it has changed over time?
I am looking for an accessible book that explains what "Being" means in philosophy. In particular, I am looking for something like "Being and Some Philosophers" by Etienne Gilson, ...
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Viability of the Aristotelian physics in Aquinas's "argument from change"
In the "argument from change" Aquinas writes:
Everything that is moved is moved by another. For nothing is moved except insofar as it is in potentiality with respect to that actuality ...
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Isn't atheism the most irrational position? [closed]
By atheism, I mean strong/positive atheism, the belief that no deities or supernatural entities exist, in contrast to agnostic atheism, which is simply the lack of a belief.
We all know this kind of ...
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How do theistic religions explain the fact that other religions also claim unique validity?
This might be the wrong forum - if you know a better one, please let me know. My question might also have an easy answer - I'm not an expert here.
As an atheist, I don't believe there's reason to ...
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What is the point of demanding evidence for God, when any evidence can be internalized as a physical property of the Universe?
Any evidence I can provide you for the existence of God must necessarily be of the physical kind, as that is the only evidence with which humans can communicate with one another.
But if the evidence ...
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What are some arguments used by religious philosophers to prove the existence of an afterlife world?
What are some arguments used by religious philosophers to prove the existence of an afterlife world?
Even if we take the existence of souls for granted, we still don't know their fate, and it's even ...
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In what sense is God - as portrayed in monotheistic traditions - a 'moral' being, if God has created morality?
If moral values are seen as coming from God, then what makes these values ‘moral’ in the first place? Is it because they are inherently moral (and what would this mean?); or is it because these values ...
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The definition of potency in Aquinas's definition of motion [closed]
In the Summa theologiae (1267–73), Aquinas defines motion as nothing else than the reduction of something from potency to act.
With that being said, how come Aquinas doesn’t define what he means by ...
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What makes two things really distinct when they are not God in Scholastic philosophy? [closed]
In Scholastic philosophy, what makes two things really distinct when they are not God? I ask because suppose the two things don’t exist. Is there something that makes them really distinct, then? I ...
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Has anyone come up with a sufficient rebuttal to the TAG argument?
The Transcendental Argument for God's Existence is, as far as I'm aware, the strongest argument for the existence of God when applied correctly. (Before you judge, no, i am not seeking to convince ...
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Are there any unemotional, straightforward arguments for the existence of God?
The argument from Incredulity has been tried, and I think it is really going off in the wrong direction. Are there any arguments for the existence of God that are so uninteresting, so mundane, that ...
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Is omni-benevolence even possible?
The idea of omnibenevolence, if taken seriously, suggests that a being would always choose the ‘perfectly good’ action in every situation. To do this consistently / constantly, the being would need ...
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Can an atheist really be agnostic about the origin of life?
To be unequivocally clear: I am an atheist. I am also not a metaphysical naturalist. My position on the origin of life is – though – that abiogenesis seems plausible, but not well-supported enough to ...
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Is there logic in the idea that God expelled humans from Paradise for gaining the freedom of choice? [closed]
Could humanity have been expelled from Eden for gaining free will, if at the moment of choice—whether to eat from the Tree of Knowledge—they had not yet fully possessed the ability to choose?
Can the ...
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How Knowledge Claims and Logic Presuppose God [duplicate]
P1: Logic is objective.
P2: Since it is objective, it has existence in reality, otherwise logic doesn't exist and so contradictions can exist in reality. Laws of logic are not physical or contingent ...
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