| There is another way to view the relation of theism and science apart from a panentheistic harmonization. |
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| Here liberal theism and varieties of natural theology seemed particularly dangerous. |
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| Who is Dawkins, asks McGrath, to belittle theism when such giants of evolutionary theory did not? |
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| Along the way, Polkinghorne argues that going beyond the basics of theism can make belief more credible to nonbelievers. |
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| As I mentioned in my last offering, I do not view agnosticism as a halfway house between Atheism and theism. |
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| The novel focuses on the conflicts between atheism and theism, Leninism and Marxism. |
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| Open theism has found some favor with Pentecostals who view it in terms of a spirited give-and-take with God. |
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| Finally, Shelley observes that widespread theism constitutes no evidence for the existence of God. |
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| The only way to destroy theism is to reject all forms of transcendence, personalism, and dualism. |
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| What cogent defence can be offered for the doctrine of God's impassibility, in the face of open theism and unorthodox views on the Trinity? |
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| Theism might always be about meaning, but what religion would look like if monism were asserted against theism is an open question. |
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| In light of the complexity of the universe, which of the overarching theories of materialism, humanism, or theism provides the best explanation? |
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| A relational theism must replace the ever-present individualism that haunts modern and postmodern North American culture. |
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| Finally, it is interesting to note that theism is not universally condemned in Buddhism. |
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| Crews is correct in pointing out that a materialist view of the world is logically incompatible with each and every brand of theism. |
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| He demonstrates the coherence and congruence of theism with the most recent advances in physics. |
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| Certainly such a deity would not be the infinite creator God of orthodox theism. |
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| Physicist Matt Young considers whether you can apply skeptical empiricism to religious belief and offers his own alternative to theism. |
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| Those looking to discredit religion and theism generally had only to focus on what is most obvious, consistent and rationally cogent in his work. |
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| The doctrines of original sin or inherent human depravity would be examples of theism in its more extreme forms. |
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| That being impossible here, let us return to the topic of theism and the relation of evil to divine purpose. |
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| However, his arguments for theism are significantly weakened because many are based on the assumption of the big bang and related concepts. |
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| This collection focuses primarily on Peirce's realism, pragmatism, and theism, with attention to his tychism and synechism. |
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| As I stated previously, in 18th century deism there were two keys to distinguishing between deism and theism in its various forms. |
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| Foundational to this claim is that religion needs to be understood in terms of naturalistic theism, or panentheism, rather than supernaturalism. |
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| This is why the great thinkers of the Frankfurt School, Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, were equally critical of atheism and theism. |
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| At the root of the culture war is a conflict between theism and atheism. |
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| I think it's stunning and beautiful and devastating and I think could easily be rescued from its apparent theism and reinterpreted as a proper humanist hymn. |
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| Fundamentalism in relation to any concept even in theism is categorised as adamancy in our ashrams. |
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| Thirdly, the ontological status of the multiverse theory is, I submit, isomorphic to classical theism. |
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| The devotional theism of Vishishtadvaita, very influential in modern India, resembles the pietism and mysticism of the Western religions. |
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| The implication of this tradition is that theism is the way in which human knowledge is manifested. |
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| Thus, part one of this book adopts the premise that natural theology shows it is at least as likely as not that there is a God of the sort argued for by classical theism. |
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| Put more succinctly, theism is god-belief, and atheism is its absence. |
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| In my view, indeed, the discrediting not only of the more superstitious types of theism but of any form of religious belief was one of the principal aims of Hume's philosophy. |
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| I have been contrasting two versions of theism and two views of creation. |
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| Voltaire's attitude towards traditional theism is interesting to note. |
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| Ralston argues not only that theism has a positive biological function for human culture and survival, but also that there is good reason to regard it as true. |
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| But his theism does clarify some of the tension between his work and popular atheism. |
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| Going from theism to atheism, modernism followed a secularization process that one could interpret as the inverse of the Christianization of the Roman Empire. |
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| Any one of these reasons may be refuted, but in collaboration they shore up their strength in order to make only one option available to me in my choice between theism and atheism. |
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| Collins clearly rejects theism based on revelation. |
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| It is an ancient doctrine, and has existed in constant conflict with theism and supernaturalism, as exhibited by ancient manifestos of naturalism such as On the Nature of Things. |
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| Modernity, he argues, implies a huge range of possible ways of thinking, including many variations of theism and atheism. It is also significant that theocracy is not monolithic either. |
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| Both theories invoke an infinitely complex unseen agency to explain the universe we do see: the multiverse appeals to hidden universes, theism to a hidden Deity. |
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| Within theism, it contrasts with monotheism, the belief in a singular God, in most cases transcendent. |
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| Because his views of religion were deeply tied to his understanding of nature, the text's theism rested on the argument from design. |
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| For Friedrich Nietzsche, humanism was nothing more than a secular version of theism. |
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| Even if we set aside for a moment the extreme implausibility of its beliefs, there remains another hurdle which a theism must leap in order to reach anything resembling credibility: the question of authority. |
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| Despite these hierarchies of deities, traditional conceptions of Tao should not be confused with the Western theism. |
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| Sun-worship seems to the modern scientist to be the best of all forms of theism, and the one which may be most easily reconciled with modern monism. |
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| The cosmological argument in Chapter 4 is an attempt to show that, as regards the presence of contingent beings, theism has more explanatory power than naturalism. |
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| Allism is inconsistent with theism, and, therefore, anyone who professes ignorance as to whether Allism is true should profess ignorance as to whether God exists. |
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