Journal of Philosophical Investigations

Evaluation of Polkinghorne's Model Regarding the Mechanism of Divine Action

Mohammad-Ebrahim Maghsoudi; Hassan Hosseini-Sarvari

Volume 19, Issue 50 , March 2025, , Pages 153-172

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.58487.3599

Abstract

John C. Polkinghorne (1930-2021) was one of the leading figures in the field of science and theology, who had a distinctive approach to explaining the mechanism of divine action in ... Read More

The Relation between Religious Experience and Religion’s Dimensions

Qodratullah Qorbani

Volume 18, Issue 46 , April 2024, , Pages 313-327

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2024.60329.3698

Abstract

Religion has different aspects and dimensions including doctrinal, moral, empirical, mythical-narrative, ritual, social, and material ones. Religious experience is one of the dimensions ... Read More Religion has different aspects and dimensions including doctrinal, moral, empirical, mythical-narrative, ritual, social, and material ones. Religious experience is one of the dimensions of religion and is a significant religious fact and aspect that has diverse relations with other dimensions of religion. Hence, recognizing the kind of religious experience’s relations with religion’s dimensions has its special significance. So the question of research is what relations can be conceivable between religious experience and the dimensions of religion? To answer such a question, first, we should pay attention to the importance of different tendencies toward religion and religious experiences, that is, our understanding of religious experience defines its relation with religion’s dimensions. Our understanding of religion, also, is significant in determining its essence and diverse aspects or dimensions. In this case, considering two important religious traditions of the world, namely classic monotheism and atheism, we can notice the significance of the Transcendent Being or Sacredness/Divine aspect of religion, and think of some dimensions of religion such as doctrinal, moral, mythical-narrative, empirical, social, ritual or material that each one has its special relation with religious experience, although creedal and ritual ones can be more respectable. In this case, it seems the doctrinal dimension can make or interpret religious experiences, ritual and worshiping dimention shows and manifests its symbolic repeatation. Mythical-narrative one can transfer virtues of religious experiences to the next generations, moral one can make and extend the results of religious experiences, and material one can manifest externally and make the background for the next religious experiences. In the meantime, paying attention to noticeable theories such as essentialism and structuralism about religious experiences, and dividing them into two nouminous and intuitive-theoretical experiences, can make complicated and plural of their relations with some dimensions of religion.

Swinburne's Confirmation Inductive Argument as the Best Explanation of Theism

Abbas Yazdani

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, , Pages 468-488

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2021.47927.2967

Abstract

Can atheistic explanations scientifically explain the world and humans? Can theistic deductive arguments provide a rational explanation of the world? Many philosophers of contemporary ... Read More

Divine Conceptualism as a Response to Challenge of Platonism and Its Critique by Craig

Tayyebeh Shaddel; Hossein Atrak

Volume 17, Issue 43 , August 2023, , Pages 489-509

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2022.49686.3102

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Divine Conceptualism is a solution to the problem that Platonism poses for theism. This view is put forward by Alvin Plantinga and Greg Welty, two contemporary American philosophers, ... Read More

Is it more reasonable for a critical rationalist to be non-religious?

Jeremy Shearmur

Volume 17, Issue 42 , June 2023, , Pages 317-331

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2023.16590

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This paper argues that it is not reasonable for a critical rationalist to be a religious believer in the Abrahamic tradition. The argument is distinctive, in that it takes seriously ... Read More

God in Plato's Philosophy

Tayebeh Shaddel; Mansour Imanpour; Hossein Atrak

Volume 15, Issue 34 , May 2021, , Pages 178-197

https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2020.34911.2368

Abstract

There are different meanings of the word “God” that have been used by philosophers throughout the history of philosophy, such as theism, pantheism, panentheism, deism, and ... Read More

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Evaluation of Polkinghorne's Model Regarding the Mechanism of Divine Action

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The Relation between Religious Experience and Religion’s Dimensions

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Swinburne's Confirmation Inductive Argument as the Best Explanation of Theism

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Divine Conceptualism as a Response to Challenge of Platonism and Its Critique by Craig

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Is it more reasonable for a critical rationalist to be non-religious?

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God in Plato's Philosophy

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