Yaser Hashemi, Ahmad Valiee, Mohammad Javad Asghari
Atheists have long advanced arguments against the existence of God, challenging the claims of theists. Among these, John L. Schellenberg has proposed an argument known as “divine hiddenness,” which has garnered significant attention from philosophers of religion. Therefore, the subject of this paper is to critique and examine this argument based on the ontological foundations of Avicenna, one of the greatest theist philosophers and prominent figures in Islamic philosophy. The methodology of this article is descriptive-analytical, based on an ontological examination of the rational possibility of connection and the occurrence of connection with the transcendent through religious and mystical experiences. Through a careful examination, it will be demonstrated that Avicenna’s ontological foundations not only support the possibility of relational experiences with the divine but also, when considered within the framework of logical argumentation and the epistemological certainty of mutawātirāt (mass-transmitted hadith), establish the reliability and certainty of such transcendent relations. Consequently, the argument from divine hiddenness—and by extension, atheism—is effectively refuted.
Philosophy of religion. Psychology of religion. Religion in relation to other subjects
تروم هذه الدراسة وصف وتحليل إشكال ثنائيّة العمل السياسي والعمل الدعوي في فكر أبو سليمان؛ من أجل معرفة ما قدمه من تفاصيل نظرية وعملية لهذه الثنائية، وقد تضمنت هذه الدراسة بيان الأصول والمفاهيم التي يتأسس عليها النسق المعرفي الناظم لفكر أبو سليمان، ومنه مفهوم العمل السياسي والدعوي، كما تضمنت الدراسة الأصول النظرية التي بنى عليها أبو سليمان مقاربته لهذه الثنائية: من تأصيل وتأريخ؛ لمعرفة ما طرأ عليها من تحولات، والصورة التي آلت إليها في السياق المعاصر، ثم ختمت الدراسة باستعراض تحليلي للحلول الإجرائية التي قدمها أبو سليمان في حل معضلة العلاقة بين العمل السياسي والدعوي، يمكن إجماله في الفصل الوظيفي الدستوري بين العملين؛ على قاعدة التكامل والاستقلال؛ من أجل سد ذريعة احتكار السلطة السياسية للمؤسّسات الدعوية والتربوية وغيرها.
Education, Philosophy of religion. Psychology of religion. Religion in relation to other subjects
Is character education a legitimate goal of higher education? Character education should aim to form people so they can live well in a world worth living in. All universities, whether faith-inspired or not, have an obligation to prepare students for life—a life worth living, a life with purpose. The Christian faith conviction that we as humans have a common telos, that there is an ultimate common good, or highest good, that is God, is central to any Catholic concept of character and flourishing in the university. The practice of the virtues, through good character, is the road to this spiritual end. Catholic Universities traditionally have many features that make them well-placed to cultivate the virtues of character in their students, particularly through the lens of a Christian anthropology. The work of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues on universities is highlighted together with recent scholarly discussion of the place of character virtues in secular and Christian universities.
Philosophy of religion. Psychology of religion. Religion in relation to other subjects, Communication. Mass media
تضمن هذا العدد عدداً من البحوث ذات الصلة بموضوع "السُّنن الإلهية". وقد خُصّصت كلمة التحرير للحديث عن " فقه السُّنن". وانتُظم العدد في ستة أبحاث؛ إذ جاء البحث الأول بعنوان "حالة البحوث في السُّنَن الإلهية في بناء الأُمم والحضارات" للدكتورة علياء العظم. والبحث الثاني بعنوان "سنن قيام الأمم" للدكتور فتحي حسن ملكاوي. والبحث الثالث بعنوان " فقه السُّنَن الإلهية والثقافة السُّنَنيّة " للدكتور عزمي طه السّيد. والبحث الرابع بعنوان "الإنسان السُّنَني بين التفكير الحداثي وقِيَم الاستخلاف والعمران للدكتور عمار قاسمي. والبحث الخامس بعنوان "خصائص السُّنَن الإلهية وأبعادها العلمية والحضارية " للدكتور راشد سعيد شهوان. والبحث السادس بعنوان "موقع التفكير السُّنَني في حركة الإصلاح الفكري المعاصر" للدكتور رشيد كهوس.
واحتوى العدد باب "قراءات ومراجعات"؛ إذ تضمن استقراء ومراجعة لما نُشر في مجلة "الفكر الإسلامي المعاصر" حول موضوع السنن من العدد 1 حتى العدد 104 بعنوان "السّنن الإلهية في أبحاث مجلّة الفكر الإسلامي المعاصر" وقدّمها الدكتور عبد الله عمر.
وفي العدد منتقيات حديثة لبعض المؤلفات المتصلة بأبحاث العدد ضمن باب "عروض مختصرة" أعدها إيصال صالح الحوامدة.
Education, Philosophy of religion. Psychology of religion. Religion in relation to other subjects
Bukit Kasih Kanonang (Kanonang Love Hill) is a place of worship for Christians of the Minahasa Regency, North Sulawesi, one of the provinces of Indonesia, which in its development has also become a popular tourist destination. As a site that blends Christian elements, local traditional elements and values of tolerance among the world’s major religions namely Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism, this beautiful piece of land includes a number of sites such as a monument to tolerance, a house of worship for each religion, a giant crucifix, statues, and the faces of Minahasan ancestors carved into cliff faces. All these elements suggest that while the people have values of tolerance and religious harmony, nonetheless the 55-meter giant white cross at Bukit Kasih Kanonang is evidence of the dominance of the local people’s Protestant Christian belief. Using the perspective of Hayden’s Antagonistic Tolerance, this paper investigates how people of other religions deal with the issue of dominance and how the social construct in the saying Torang Samua Basudara (we are all family), which has been the way of life of the Minahasan people, supports the concepts of tolerance and harmony.
Philosophy. Psychology. Religion, Philosophy of religion. Psychology of religion. Religion in relation to other subjects
The psychological study of religion has its roots first in the natural histories of religion of the Enlightenment and then in the comparative and evolutionary researches of the Victorian anthropologists. From its earliest days, its focus has always been on individuals and their beliefs, behaviors, and experiences, and how these relate to other aspects of their lives. As older natural histories or genealogies of religion did, psychological and neuroscientific approaches to religion still raise questions of religious epistemology.
The diversity of religious practices forms a new pattern, where each community is challenged to be 'in tune' with the current trend and situation. The pattern challenges each community to compete with others to provide good bargaining power so the audience is in the discourse that they produced. To propagate hijrah discourse, Taubah Muslim (Community’s name is disguised) community uses fashion as a strategy in da’wah activism. Taubah Muslim hijrah community is a community that persuades millennials to hijrah through da'wah. Fashion in this context is positioned as a medium as well as a 'new way' to approach the da'wah target. This article puts fashion as a social practice in which there are forms of representation and expression of Islamic values. Using a descriptive qualitative method, this article highlights how fashion is used and chosen by agents in da’wah arena as a strategy to reproduce hijrah discourse. Based on Pierre Bourdieu's social practice theory, the results of the analysis conclude that fashion is used as a placement strategy to encourage perceptions of shared identity. Furthermore, fashion functionally is used as an acculturation technique to approach the da'wah target (young generation). The choice of fashion as a da'wah strategy is based on habitus and capital owned by agents in the da'wah arena. Then, Fashion is treated as a representation of other meanings that are presented by agents to create reality, which is based on their habitus and capital. The existence of capital becomes an important thing for the community to maintain, strengthen, and differentiate (distinction) with others in achieving a dominant position, namely in terms of propagative hijrah discourse
Philosophy. Psychology. Religion, Philosophy of religion. Psychology of religion. Religion in relation to other subjects
On the 75th birthday of Miscelánea Comillas, this article discusses three of its historical landmarks. Firstly, we remember its origins, in 1943, when the university celebrated its 50th anniversary. As part of the celebrations, the university published a book that included academic articles written by students and faculty. Two years later, this book evolved into a periodical publication offering multi-disciplinary contents. Secondly, the journal is described as a historical mirror of the different faculties connected to it. The last part of the paper analyzes the journal in its role of promoting faculty research, by publishing their articles and reviews, and advertising their scholarly publications.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, Philosophy of religion. Psychology of religion. Religion in relation to other subjects
يتناول هذا البحث بيان وجهة النظر الإسلامية في مسألة اختلاف الملل والنحل، وأهمية بناء الفكرة الجامعة لمجتمع متنوع الأعراق والأديان ، والتمييز بين حرية الفكر التي تخدم نهضة الأُمة، والحرية المنفلتة التي تُهدِّد أساس وجود الجماعة، وتجلية سياسة الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم في بناء الأمة الجامعة في دولته الأولى باختلاف شعوبها وقبائلها ومللها وطوائفها، وأخيراً إمكانية بناء فكرة للمواطنة في العصر الحديث تقوم على مرجعية دينية.
وتعرض الدراسة لبعض النماذج التراثية والمعاصرة للتعامل مع الاختلاف الفكري والسياسي وتناقش إمكانية الإفادة من تجارب الأمم في بناء فكرة جامعة.
This study deals with the Islamic viewpoint on issue of differences among various sects and denominations, the importance of building the universal idea of a society of different races and religions, and the distinction between freedom of thought that serves the nation's progress and the uncontrolled freedom that threatens the foundation of the group existence. The Study also reveals the policy of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) in building the universal Ummah of its first state composed of different nations, tribes, sects and denominations. Finally, it discusses the possibility of building a contemporary idea of citizenship based on religious authority.
The study presents some traditional and contemporary models that deal with intellectual and political differences and discusses the possibility of benefiting from the experiences of various nations in building an inclusive idea.
Education, Philosophy of religion. Psychology of religion. Religion in relation to other subjects
The term „exorcism” comes from the Latin exorcismus and from the Greek term, which originally meant „an oath”, but later in a Christian environment has assumed the meaning „to curse” or „to expel the demons/evil spirits”. The practice of exorcism in early Christianity has been influenced by Old Testament, ancient Judaism and especially by the exorcisms done by Jesus Christ and described in the New Testament. In patristic texts of IInd and IIIrd century we find the following elements of an exorcism: prayer in the name of Jesus, recitation of some elements of early Christian Creed, reading of the Gospel and it was done as an order. An exorcism has been accompanied by the imposition of hands, fast and using of the holy cross. An exorcism has been usually performed publicly and was treated as evidence of the truth of the Christian faith. Until the IIIrd century there was no office of exorcist in the ancient Church and the ministry of it was not connected at all with the priesthood, but depended on the individual charisma received from God and was confirmed by the effectiveness to realase the possessed people.
Early Christian literature. Fathers of the Church, etc., Philosophy of religion. Psychology of religion. Religion in relation to other subjects
Nuestra tierra ha pasado en las últimas décadas de ser un país de emigrantes a convertirse en país de acogida de inmigrantes de diversos lugares, etnias, costumbres, lenguas y religiones. Por su parte, y centrándonos en el contexto educativo, es evidente la existencia de aulas multiculturales y del fenómeno multicultural entendido como la pluralidad de alumnos de procedencias diversas en espacios educativos comunes. No obstante, hace ya algunos años que en el ámbito educativo muchos autores emplean los términos de escuela intercultural y de educación intercultural como una forma de asumir el modelo educativo basado en la interdependencia enriquecedora de valores culturales diferentes en la práctica educativa, mientras que la multiculturalidad sería una expresión descriptiva de la situación de convivencia de varias culturas en el mismo espacio educativo. Por todo ello, resulta imprescindible trazar las características fundamentales de la educación intercultural, planteando los elementos fundamentales que la definen, esto es, diversidad, cultura, ciudadanía e identidad, para construir una educación intercultural que partiendo del reconocimientode la diversidad cultural, sea capaz de generar una cultura de la diversidad, un referente pedagógico inclusivo para unas instituciones educativas que quierenser inclusivas e interculturales.
History of scholarship and learning. The humanities, Philosophy of religion. Psychology of religion. Religion in relation to other subjects