firestone, reuven
Because scripture represents the direct word of God, it is the most sacred source for authority in the scriptural monotheisms. Scripture is conveyed to humanity through extraordinary individuals known as prophets. But if the purported prophet is a false prophet, then the conveyed message is false, resulting in the collapse of the structure upon whi...
galbraith, deane
The 2023 Bible Society New Zealand’s translation of sample biblical passages into the Māori language, He Tīmatanga, caused controversy by incorporating names of Māori gods. Those who objected typically assumed inconsistency with the Bible’s purported monotheism. But ‘monotheism’, in the sense that only one god exists, is not present in the Bible. M...
Grozea, Lucian
Published in
SAECULUM
This article represents the first section of the second part of the study Gods and Idols. Representations and Symbolizations of the Divinity in the Religions of Ancient Israel. The subjects addressed for analysis are idolatry and iconoclasm in the context of Levantine iconography, seen from the perspective of the biblical authors, a totally tendent...
Grozea, Lucian
Published in
SAECULUM
The following article is a prolegomenon for an extensive study of iconography (representations and symbolization) and iconology (reception and explanation) manifested in the religions of Ancient Israel. Thus, this first part presents an analytical contextualization of the primary sources, like references from the Old Testament, epigraphic records a...
Sánchez Corrales, Carlos José
The most recent work by Jürgen Habermas tries to revalue religion in today’s society. For this he tries to find genealogical connections between secular content and the worldviews that emerged in the Axial Age, including Jewish monotheism. In this article we try to propose that a genealogical approach to monotheism from the perspective of those inv...
Ziporyn, Brook
Published in
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie
The term Dao originally means a Way or Course or Guide, something very close to purposive action as such – a prescribed course to attain a prescribed goal. It is precisely something that is selected out, valued, desired, kept to rather than discarded. The Daoist usage of the term “Dao” is thus an ironic usage: it is used deliberately in the opposit...
Schmid, Konrad
Published in
Zeitschrift für Pädagogik und Theologie
Die Exoduserzählung der Bibel ist die theologische Gründungslegende Israels: Seit dem Auszug aus Ägypten ist Israel Gottes Volk und nur ihm allein, und keinen irdischen Mächten, verpflichtet. Dieser Aufsatz zeichnet die literarischen und theologischen Profile und die historischen Entstehungsgegebenheiten dieser Erzählung nach und summiert den neues...
Lindbäck, Viktor
This essay examines, from a religious psychological perspective and with references to current religious psychological theories, possible connections between religion and long-distance trade in pre-modern societies, with an emphasis on the Silk Road. These possible connections concern both the role of religion in trade itself; for example, in the f...
Benslama, Fethi
Commentators present this passage as a refutation of the Christian God the Father. The word "absolute" is intended to exclude God from the order of sex and procreation-by contrast with the open nature characterising humans, who are sexed beings-since in Arabic the word for sex (farj) means hole, defect, incompleteness. Therefore, we might say that ...
Prinčič, Jernej
V magistrski nalogi avtor obravnava predsokratski pojem physis v razmerju do hebrejske biblične tradicije s posebnim poudarkom na etičnem redu. Na začetku je predstavljena etimološka in pomenska analiza besede in pojma physis. Pojem physis je obravnavan s treh vidikov: kot izvor, kot razvoj in kot sama ureditev kozmosa. Ker je predsokratsko filozof...
