The argument from religious experience is an argument for the existence of God. It holds that the best explanation for religious experiences is that they...
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A religious experience (sometimes known as a spiritual experience, sacred experience, mystical experience) is a subjective experience which is interpreted...
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Existence of God (redirect from Argument against the existence of God)
supported by such experience. The argument from the problem of religious experience This argument suggests that religious experiences are subjective and...
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The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by Harvard University psychologist and philosopher William James. It comprises...
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teleological argument (from τέλος, telos, 'end, aim, goal') also known as physico-theological argument, argument from design, or intelligent design argument, is...
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Numinous (category Religious philosophical concepts)
dictionary. Analytical psychology Argument from religious experience Fear of God Religious ecstasy Religious experience Sacred Sacred–profane dichotomy...
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An argument from nonbelief is a philosophical argument for the nonexistence of God that asserts an inconsistency between God's existence and a world that...
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The argument from love is an argument for the existence of God that suggests the depth, complexity, and universality of love point to a transcendent source...
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A transcendental argument is a kind of deductive argument that appeals to the necessary conditions that make experience and knowledge possible. Transcendental...
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In the philosophy of religion, a cosmological argument is an argument for the existence of God based upon observational and factual statements concerning...
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The argument from beauty (also the aesthetic argument) is an argument for the existence of a realm of immaterial ideas or, most commonly, for the existence...
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The argument from consciousness is an argument for the existence of God that claims characteristics of human consciousness (such as qualia) cannot be explained...
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The argument from morality is an argument for the existence of God. Arguments from morality tend to be based on moral normativity or moral order. Arguments...
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Rudolf Otto (category Religious pluralism)
mysticism Neurotheology Argument from religious experience Hard problem of consciousness The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James Perceiving...
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Problem of evil (redirect from Moral argument from evil)
problem of evil and the evidential problem of evil. The logical form of the argument tries to show a logical impossibility in the coexistence of a god and evil...
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spiritual and religious histories and orientations is imperative" (p. 182). The argument from inconsistent revelations is an argument that aims to show...
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The argument from free will, also called the paradox of free will or theological fatalism, contends that omniscience and free will are incompatible and...
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Scholarly approaches to mysticism (category Religious studies)
McClenon, Mysticism, Encyclopedia of Religion and Society The Argument from Religious Experience]] [1] Peter Fenwick (1980). "The Neurophysiology of the Brain:...
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Index of philosophy articles (A–C) (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
design Argument from queerness Argument from Reason Argument from religious experience Argument from silence Argument in the alternative Argument map Argument...
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Pascal's wager (category Arguments for the existence of God)
philosophical argument advanced by Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), a French mathematician, philosopher, physicist, and theologian. This argument posits that...
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"thoroughly and calmly to examine all the arguments offered in support of religious beliefs", such as the ontological argument for the existence of God, which he...
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Non-ordinary experience refers to rare experiences that significantly differ from the experience in the ordinary waking state, like religious experiences, out-of-body...
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argument is a deductive philosophical argument, made from an ontological basis, that is advanced in support of the existence of God. Such arguments tend...
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Index of philosophy of religion articles (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
morality Argument from nonbelief Argument from poor design Argument from religious experience Arhat Aristotelian view of a god Arya Ashtamangala Atheism...
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Mind–body dualism (redirect from Arguments against mind–body dualism)
know how the bat experiences that phenomenon. In 2018, The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism was published that contains arguments for and against...
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Natural theology (category Wikipedia articles needing page number citations from September 2010)
theology, which is based on supernatural sources such as scripture or religious experiences. It is thus a form of theology open to critical examination, aimed...
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The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss is a 2013 book by philosopher and religious studies scholar David Bentley Hart published by Yale University...
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The argument from poor design, also known as the dysteleological argument, is an argument against the assumption of the existence of a creator God, based...
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Reformed epistemology (redirect from Argument from a proper basis)
without arguments or evidence for the existence of God. More specifically, Plantinga argues that belief in God is properly basic, and due to a religious externalist...
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Five Ways (Aquinas) (category Philosophical arguments)
the argument from "first mover"; the argument from universal causation; the argument from contingency; the argument from degree; the argument from final...
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