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Reconciling Meticulous Divine Providence with Objective Chance
Randomness can be defined in terms of objective probability: an event is random just in case its objective probability (in the circumstances) is...
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Can Mosque and State Be Separated? Should They? The ‘Divine Pattern,’ Freedom, and Modernity
Can religion and state be separated from each other in an Islamic context? This chapter takes both historical and theoretical approaches to this...
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Natural Law and the American Founding
Natural law maintains that human conduct is subject to eternal and unchanging moral laws. These moral laws originate, not in human legislation, but...
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The Second Category: Traditional Jewish Monotheism , Christian Binitarianism, and Christological Monotheism
This chapter explores how the relationship between two distinct figures—Yahweh and Jesus—may be considered ‘monotheism’ or, better, ‘Christological...
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Halakhah and the Dependence Thesis
The key argument of this chapter is that the rejection of DCM in Jewish tradition is not random. Halakhah and the endorsement of autonomy is the...
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The Akedah in Jewish Tradition
This chapter contends with the command to Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. In Kierkegaard’s thought, the binding of Isaac reflects the believer’s...
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The Prologue and Roman Conquest: Bartolomé de Las Casas and Roman Representation
This chapter reads the prologue as an anti-Roman story. By exploring the conquest of the Americas as narrated by Bartolomé de Las Casas and various...
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Introduction
This chapter presents the leitmotif of the book—the dependence of morality on religion. This is a longstanding question that was first posed in...
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Between the Duty of Obedience and the Thesis of Dependence
Ostensibly, the supreme principle of Jewish religion is the duty of absolute obedience to God. Believers are God’s subjects and, as such, compelled...
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R. Israel Moses Hazan: Particularism and Universalism
The halakhic discourse is the central endeavor of Jewish tradition. Judaism is not a philosophy but a way of life, and analyzing the world of...
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Randomness and Providence in Christian Thought
The problem of randomness and providence is not new. Rather, there is a long history of sophisticated thought in response to this problem, which can...
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Causality, Indeterminacy, and Providence: Contemporary Islamic Perspectives from Said Nursi and Basil Altaie
To understand divine providence, we need to understand the natural order and our place in it. Such inquiry leads to a rethinking of what we usually...
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The Dhārmic Function of Sanskrit Kāvya: Poetry as a Suggestive Force
The primary function of Sanskrit kāvya was always to please the readers. Literary theoreticians like Abhinavagupta often considered esthetic...
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DCM in Rabbinic Literature
Indications of apparent support for the DCM thesis can be found in rabbinic sources. Thus, one talmudic statement determines that God issues...
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Is There a Tradition of Rejecting the Goddess?
This chapter deals with the following issue: while there is a tradition of rejecting God that informs the age-old discourses of atheism, it seems...
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Powers and Principalities in the New Testament
The constructive work to be carried out now will unfold over three chapters: one for political authority, one for ecclesiology, and finally a chapter...
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Four Ways of Understanding Mystical Experience
The intentional structure of conscious knowing, and the emergent nature of being, together with a conception of discovery in science and aesthetic...
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Religion and the State: A Catholic View
Although it recognizes and honors the truths taught by other religions, the Catholic Church understands itself to be the Church established by Christ...
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Pneumatological Imagination: A Pentecostal Approach to the Political Theology of Prophecy
This chapter uses Amos Yong’s pneumatological imagination as the foundation for the Pentecostal political theology of prophecy in post-colonial...
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Existential Humility and the Critique of Civil Religion in Augustine’s Political Theology
In this chapter I explore Augustine’s political theology, with a focus on his critique of civil religion. The ancient Greek, Roman, and Jewish...