Today, philosophy of religion is one of the most vibrant areas of philosophy. Articles in philosophy of religion appear in virtually all the main philosophical journals, while some journals (such as the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Religious Studies, Sophia, Faith and Philosophy, and others) are dedicated especially to philosophy of religion.
...because if there is an all-knowing, all-seeing and all-powerful being, then the answer to every philosophical question becomes "Because God Say". — Banno
...because if there is an all-knowing, all-seeing and all-powerful being, then the answer to every philosophical question becomes "Because God Say". — Banno
the answer to every philosophical question becomes "Because God Say". — Banno
because if there is an all-knowing, all-seeing and all-powerful being, then the answer to every philosophical question becomes "Because God Says". — Banno
Articles in philosophy of religion appear in virtually all the main philosophical journals
It's true that his trinitarian ways of resolving these questions shut down the radicality of his questions, but they still allowed him to press on to a further point than most before him — csalisbury
"The body, as we have seen, is resurrected as a whole, with all the organs it possessed during its earthly existence. Therefore, the blessed will forever have, according to their sex, either a virile member or a vagina and, in both cases, a stomach and intestines. But what for, if, as seems obvious, they will need neither to reproduce nor to eat? Certainly blood will circulate in their arteries and veins, but is it possible that hair will still grow on their heads and faces or that their fingernails will grow, as well, pointlessly and irritatingly? In confronting these delicate questions, theologians come up against a decisive aporia, one that seems to exceed the limits of their conceptual strategy but that also constitutes the locus in which we can think of a different possible use for the body.
...It is with regard to two principal functions of vegetative life - sexual reproduction and nutrition - that the problem of the physiology of the glorious body reaches its critical threshold. If the organs that execute these functions - testicles, penis, vagina, womb, stomach, intestines - will necessarily be present in the resurrection, then what function are they supposed to have? ... It is impossible, though, that the corresponding organs are completely useless and superfluous, since in the state of perfect nature nothing exists in vain. It is here that the question of the body's other use finds its first, stammering formulation.
Aquinas's strategy is clear: to separate organs from their specific physiological functions. The purpose of each organ, like that of any instrument, is its operation; but this does not mean that if the operation fails, then the instrument becomes useless. The organ or instrument that has separated from its operation and remains, so to speak, in a state of suspension, acquires, precisely for this reason, an ostensive function; it exhibits the virtue corresponding to the suspended operation. Just as in advertisements or pornography, where the simulacra of merchandise or bodies exalt their appeal precisely to the extent that they cannot be used, but only exhibited, so in the resurrection the idle sexual organs will display the potentiality, or the virtue, of procreation. The glorious body is an ostensive body whose functions are not executed but rather displayed." — Agamben, Nudities
I love this stuff. — StreetlightX
...because if there is an all-knowing, all-seeing and all-powerful being, then the answer to every philosophical question becomes "Because God Says". — Banno
If x and y are sets, then there exists a set which contains x and y as elements. — Example of a widely-accepted unjustified and unjustifiable statement
because if there is an all-knowing, all-seeing and all-powerful being, then the answer to every philosophical question becomes "Because God Says". — Banno
Religious discussion is misplaced on a philosophy forum... — Banno
..because if there is an all-knowing, all-seeing and all-powerful being, then the answer to every philosophical question becomes "Because God Says". — Banno
.because if there is an all-knowing, all-seeing and all-powerful being, then the answer to every philosophical question becomes "Because God Says". — Banno
...because if there is an all-knowing, all-seeing and all-powerful being, then the answer to every philosophical question becomes "Because God Says". — Banno
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