scholarly journals Problem ciągłości istnienia Boga

2014 ◽  
pp. 109-135
Author(s):  
Mieszko Ciesielski
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
The New Testament

The article discusses the issue of eternal existence of God. The author offers an interpretation of selected excerpts from the New Testament, which show God as pre- or ante-eternal but not post-eternal, which means that He is an entity existing without a beginning but having an ultimate end. In order to support the suggested interpretation, the author formulates a philosophical “mercy-based proof for the current non-existence of God”. 

Is Cornelius Van Til’s Apologetic Method Christian, or Merely Theistic?

2003 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-268
Author(s):  
John J. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
Objective Evidence ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Truth Claims ◽  
Christian Apologetics ◽  
Van Til

This paper compares J. W. Montgomery’s evidentialist approach to apologetics to Cornelius Van Til’s presuppositional approach. My position is that Van Til’s system is only theistic; it may support the existence of ‘God,’ but it does not prove the existence of the Christian God. In fact, Van Til’s method could just as easily be used by a Muslim apologist to assert the validity of Islam. This is because Van Til refuses to allow objective evidence to have any place in Christian apologetics. Because of this, he offers the non-theist no way of judging between the truth claims of Christianity and other religions. In fact, the most powerful weapon in the Christian apologist’s arsenal, the resurrection of Christ, cannot be used in an effective manner. This is in direct contradiction to the New Testament itself, where the resurrection is often used evidentially to validate the Christian faith.

The Doctrine of the Christian Faith

2020 ◽  
pp. 147-179
Author(s):  
Frederick C. Beiser
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
Main Work ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Historical Reliability ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Christian Beliefs

Chapter 11 provides an account of Strauß’s main work on Christian theology, his 1840 Die christliche Glaubenslehre. This work was Strauß’s critique of Christian dogma and therefore concerned more than the historical reliability of the New Testament. But the work was marred by a deep ambivalence: Strauβ‎’s work was meant as a compendium and therefore needed to provide the student with an introduction to Christian dogma; but Strauß also had deep personal reservations about Christianity which resurface in the text. The work contains a severe critique of the Christian beliefs in miracles, immortality, the trinity, and incarnation; but it also provides a demonstration of the existence of God. Though Strauß now distances himself from Hegel, he still does not completely disavow him.

scholarly journals TOWARDS AN INTERPRETATION OF THE PHENOMENA OF DEMON POSSESSED/DEMONIZED CHRISTIANS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gani Wiyono
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Scientific Thinking ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
Natural Religion ◽  
Age Of Reason ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Human Autonomy ◽  
Excluded Middle

In the pre-modern world people generally believed in the supernatural.  Individuals and culture as a whole believed in the existence of God (or gods), angels, and demons.  The visible world owed its existence and meaning to a spiritual realm beyond the senses.  However, such worldviews began to die with the coming of Enlightenment of 17th and 18th centuries.  The age of reason, scientific thinking, and human autonomy that characterized the Enlightenment brought to being the so-called natural religion.  The result was the disappearance of immanent God (Deism) and the rejection of the socalled “excluded middle” – the unseen world of spirits, and the supernatural.  Such attitude may well be summarized in Rudolf Bultmann’ famous statement:  “It is impossible to use electric light and the wireless and to avail ourselves of modern medical and surgical discovers, and at the same time to believe in the New Testament worlds of spirits and miracles.”

Erasmus and the New Testament: The Pastoral Context

Moreana ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 35 (Number 133) (1) ◽  
pp. 37-48
Author(s):  
Germain Marc’hadour
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Greek Text ◽  
Great Freedom ◽  
The New Testament

Erasmus, after the dry philological task of editing the Greek text of the New Testament with annotations and a new translation, turned to his paraphrases with a sense of great freedom, bath literary and pastoral. Thomas More’s debt to his friend’s Biblical labors has been demonstrated but never systematically assessed. The faithful translation and annotation provided by Toronto provides an opportunity for examining a number of passages from St. Paul and St. James in the light of bath Erasmus’ exegesis and More’s apologetics.

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