28. WHY GOD IS NOT REALLY RELATED TO THE WORLD

The Great Perhaps

God created man in his own image; but did man perhaps return the compliment? The question of God's existence has been a pivotal issue for every civilization. Those with faith in God want assurance that their belief is justified, and atheists want confirmation that God is nowhere to be found. When we reflect on religion...

God’s Knowledge

God's KnowledgeIn this sourcebook we are seeing many points of disagreement between Avicenna and later thinkers, especially those affiliated with Ashʿarite kalām.This chapter by contrast deals with a point of agreement, over the claim that God is "knowing" or "knowledgeable," as stated in the Qurʾān.1 Notoriously, Avic...

The Existence of God: A New Way

This article addresses the ‘discrepancy issue’ in contemporary analytic philosophy of religion, whereby Richard Swinburne’s probabilistic approach and Graham Oppy’s worldview analysis reach opposing conclusions from substantially the same evidence. In response, it sketches a new abductive argument for God’s existence...

Logic and the Unknowability of God

A rigorous analysis of the paradoxes of apophatic theology, revealing its deep logical structure and challenging inconsistencies. In this book, Piotr Urbanczyk delves into the theory known as negative, or apophatic, theology where God is completely ineffable and unknowable. This doctrine, however, presents a paradox:...

Journal of the History and Philosophy of Science

God is Most Glorified in Himself When Christ is Most Penalised for Me ?

The aim of this article is to provoke what I think is some much‐needed discussion about the substitutionary mechanics that underpin explanations about what Christ accomplishes by his death. For, if your attitude about the doctrine of atonement is something like, ‘God, I thank you that I am not like these other men,...