This article argues that freedom in the divine creative act is better understood as a freedom of consent rather than freedom of will. However, even if some conundrums are thus avoided, one has to face the apparent antinomy between both God's creative act from His very nature and God's absolute freedom. Freedom of consent, as defined in David Burrel...
Au sortir de l’ère maoïste, l’entrée de la Chine dans une période de réformes et d’ouverture transforme l’ensemble de la société, sphère religieuse comprise, et pousse le bouddhisme chinois dans une nouvelle phase de développement. Ouvert en 1991 sur le mont Wutai (五台山), le jeune temple Pushou (普寿寺) s’inscrit dans et participe à ces processus de mé...
Religion adds to our experience of the world a dimension of non-indifference to the aspect of our destiny, and of our salvation. It has been said that, in the natural sciences, in particular in their mathematicized form, the quest for ever-more encompassing equations amounted to a building-up of a universe in "zero words." When one attempts at pass...
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This paper specifically delves into the analysis of devotion and interactions between the entity Doctor Sousa Martins (1843-1897) and his devotees. The origin of this devotion, which is trans-religious and exists outside any institution, dates back to 1904 in Portugal. Among the devotional relationship dynamics with the entity, we will emphasize th...
This paper analyses the form, function and appeal of Qur’ānic narratives in a monument of Europe’s encyclopaedic movement, the Bibliothèque Orientale of d’Herbelot (1697). At the time of its publication, a year before Marracci published his translation of the Qur’an, d’Herbelot’s work represented the single most ambitious overview of Muslim culture...
Critical notice on: Raymond Ruyer, Cybernetics and the Origin of Information, translated by Amélie Berger-Soraruff, Andrew Iliadis, Daniel W. Smith, and Ashley Woodward, with an introduction by Ashley Woodward (Lanham/London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2024), xxvii-214 pages.
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Huit ans après le début de la guerre contre la drogue lancée par l’ancien président philippin Rodrigo Duterte, la Cour pénale internationale (CPI) poursuit son enquête et accuse Duterte de « crimes contre l’humanité » en raison de l’extrême violence de la répression menée à partir de 2016. L’Église locale ayant toujours exprimé son désaccord, elle ...
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