purpose of strengthening and explaining their faith‚ as can be seen in the numerous “proofs” for the existence of God formulated by the great theologians of the Middle Ages‚ such as Thomas Aquinas and Anselm of Canterbury. With the new science and philosophy of the Enlightenment‚ however‚ unbelief began to be seen as a viable alternative option that stood in opposition to faith. In addition to the popular deism of the Enlightenment‚ espoused by such important figures as Voltaire and Maximilien Robespierre
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A rational belief in God‚ who is an omniscient‚ omnipotent and omnibenevolent‚ is not sustainable due to the evil which exists within the world. This central claim is supported by William Rowe’s evidential argument from evil and the factual premise‚ which explores instances of intense suffering which could have been prevented with the loss of good or by allowing further gracious evil that of moral and natural kind to occur. Theodicy objects the central claim and supporting argument by offering reasonings
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Theological Impact on the Theories of Descartes‚ Maupertuis‚ & Faraday René Descartes‚ Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis‚ and Michael Faraday all lived in a time when religion was king‚ but science began experiencing great progress and advancement. While all accepted God‚ theological considerations affected their theories in different measures. Descartes relied heavily on the immutability of God to formulate his theories‚ Maupertuis accepted the presence of an all-powerful being in control‚
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A rationale of the outline scheme of work for Key Stage 3 Planning is a key part of teaching. Without a coherent plan lessons may lack structure and direction. Long and medium term planning are an important part of this and in this rationale I hope to demonstrate that my planning does indeed have all of these qualities. The first element to be considered when rationalising this scheme of work is whether or not it meets the needs of Key Stage 3 pupils. I believe that it does because the attainment
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Learning Programme |UNIT |SUBJECT |YEAR | |1 |A Level Religious Studies – The Philosophy of Religion 2 |13 | |TITLE – Body / Soul Distinctions and Life After Death | |LEARNING OBJECTIVES
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Homosexuality Homosexuality has always been a controversial topic of ethical discussion. The morality of the subject depends completely upon a person’s views. A person is often swayed one way or another and religion often plays a very large role on the subject. There are those who believe in the divine command theory and those who believe in the natural law theory. In order to properly understand either theory it is important to know the meaning behind each. According to ‚ divine command
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EMMANUEL SAGWETE (916) DPL 314 PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION FR. A. RUTSVIGA 28 OCTOBER 2010 Critically expose the problem of evil. Evil is a privation of the good. The problem of evil “arises from the paradox of an omnibenevolent‚ omnipotent deity’s allowing the existence of evil” (Pojman 1987: 151). The Judeo-Christian tradition affirmed that God is omnipotent‚ omniscient and perfectly good. The same tradition also affirmed the existence of evil. The presence of evil‚ this privation of the good
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The Sick Soul William James was a powerful writer who explained many of his philosophies of religion and views on different personal religious experience in his book The Varieties of Religious Experience. Generally‚ throughout the book‚ James focuses on individual experience rather than institutional religion. Here James speaks of the “optimist” and the “pessimist”‚ also termed as the “healthy-minded” and the “sick soul”. James spends lectures 6 and 7 explaining the “sick soul” and what causes people
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this section‚ Pascal makes perhaps one of the most convincing argument in the history of philosophy. The French philosopher‚ physicist‚ and mathematician posited that human beings commonly bet with their lives on whether God exists or not. In paragraph 234‚ the philosopher notably affirms that if humans must act solely on the merit of some measure of surety or certainty‚ then they ought not to count on religion because it is not certain. Nonetheless‚ Pascal points out that human beings have been taking
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need to let it go. I believe that these two are some of the biggest differences between the concept of evil in Hinduism and Buddhism (Nichols 8/31). Karma is a very interesting response to the problem of evil that has a different response to other religions. According to this worldview‚ there is no such thing as evil. There are "bad" people‚ who are bad because they have done or continue to do bad things; bad events happen as a result of karma as
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