scholarly journals Divine Openness for Physical Relationship

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 141-161
Author(s):  
Pavel Butakov
Keyword(s):  
Natural Theology ◽  
Human Freedom ◽  
Conscious Awareness ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Physical Relationship ◽  
Divine Hiddenness ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Loving Relationship

The success of the atheistic hiddenness argument depends on the “consciousness constraint” it imposes on the divine-human loving relationship: namely, that this relationship requires human conscious awareness of being in the relationship with God. I challenge the truth of this proposition by introducing the concept of a physical relationship with God that is not subject to this constraint. I argue, first, that a physical relationship with God is metaphysically possible; second, that its plausibility is supported by natural theology; and third, that a perfectly loving God would prefer physical relationships with human beings over consciousness-constrained relationships, because a perfectly loving God would prefer to preserve the integrity of human freedom of participation and allow inclusion of all people regardless of their natural cognitive capabilities. I also offer an interpretation of apparent divine hiddenness in the light of the idea of God’s openness for physical relationships.

scholarly journals DIVINE HIDDENNESS AND HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS

2021 ◽  
pp. 20-31
Author(s):  
Pavel Butakov
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Divine Presence ◽  
Epistemic Situation ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Divine Hiddenness ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Loving Relationship

The paper offers a new strategy for refuting the atheistic hiddenness argument. For that, the argument is modified on the account of the actual epistemic situation in our world. As a result, the success of the modified argument hinges on the truth of the supposition that divine-human loving relationship depends on whether the human had a convincing religious experience of the divine presence and whether the human possesses the capability to recognize this experience as their participation in the relationship with God. This supposition, however, is shown to be unfounded. Moreover, this supposition entails that many people who lack the necessary cognitive abilities to be conscious of their relationship with God are thus unfit for this relationship, which disagrees with the idea of all-encompassing divine love. A successful rebuttal of this supposition results in a refutation of the hiddenness argument.

Religiusitas Tokoh-Tokoh Dalam Novel Bumi Cinta Karya Habiburrahman El-Shirazy

AKADEMIKA ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-221
Author(s):  
Minahul Mubin
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Human Freedom ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Belief In God ◽  
The World ◽  
Religious Aspects ◽  
Religious Elements

A novel titled BumiCinta written by Habiburrahman El-Shirazy takes place in the Russian setting, in which Russia is a country that adopts freedom. Russia with various religions embraced by its people has called for the importance of human freedom. Free sex in Russia is commonplace among its young people. Russia is a country that is free with no rules, no wonder if there have been many not embracing certain religion. In fact, according to data Russia is a country accessing the largest porn sites in the world. Habiburrahman in his Bumi Cinta reveals some religious aspects. He incorporates the concept of religion with social conflicts in Russia. Therefore, the writer reveals two fundamental issues, namely: 1. What is the characters' religiosity in the Habiburrahman El-Shirazy'sBumiCinta? 2. What is the characters' religiosity in the BumiCinta in their relationship with God, fellow human beings, and nature ?. To achieve the objectives, the writer uses the religious literary criticism based on the Qur'an and Hadith. It emphasizes religious values in literature. The writer also uses the arguments of scholars and schools of thought to strengthen this paper. This theory is then used to seek the elements of religiousity in the Habiburrahman El-Shirazy'sBumiCinta. In this novel, the writer explains there are strong religious elements and religious effects of its characters, especially the belief in God, faith and piety

Natural Law

2019 ◽  
pp. 174-203
Author(s):  
Lenn E. Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Natural Law ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Natural Theology ◽  
Human Freedom ◽  
Naturalistic Fallacy ◽  
Legal Positivism ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Theology And Science ◽  
Great Tradition

Natural law links moral and legal theory with natural theology and science. It is critical to thinking about God’s sovereignty and human freedom. Tracing the roots of the natural law idea, I defend the approach against conventionalism and legal positivism. For they leave human norms ungrounded. Chapter 7 opens by disarming Hume’s elenchus about ‘is’ and ‘ought’. I do not deny the reality of a naturalistic fallacy, but I do argue that facts make rightful claims on us and that the unity of reality and value central to Jewish thinking and to the philosophical great tradition does not confuse facts with values but does appreciate the preciousness of being—of life and personhood most pointedly. Once again here transcendence consorts with immanence. For we find God’s law writ subtly in nature, not least when we discover what it means to perfect ourselves as loving and creative human beings.

What Is Our Sacred Responsibility in the World?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madhuri M. Yadlapati
Keyword(s):  
Religious Ethics ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
The World ◽  
Human World ◽  
Human Responsibility ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines four particular ways in which faith has been expressed as a commitment to one's responsibilities vis-à-vis one's community and God. It discusses Hindu epic illustrations of dharma, or sacred duty; an allegorical extrapolation of Christian responsibility in C. S. Lewis's Narnia series as well as his discussion of the relationship between faith and works; Islamic understanding of human beings as God's caliphs (khalifa) and the responsibility for jihad; and Jewish articulations of human responsibility in a covenantal relationship with God. These examples concern a specific interface of religious ethics and the commitment to faith, by which one embraces a tremendous sense of responsibility for the very fate of the human world.

scholarly journals The Other as My Equal

Poligrafi ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (99/100) ◽  
pp. 27-44
Author(s):  
Rasoul Rasoulipour
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
Abrahamic Religions ◽  
Human Capacity ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Great Evidence

The tremendous human capacity to “love” one another is, in my opinion, the strongest evidence both for the existence of God and for the relationship that God intends for human beings to have with God and with each other. At the same time, the human capacity for envy, hate, aggression, and violating the dignity of “other” humans is similarly great evidence that something is horribly wrong − human beings fail to maintain the intended relationship with God and each other. God’s intention does not change, but we forgetful human beings lose sight of it from time to time. This problem is at the root of human alienation from God and others that leaves us isolated, oblivious, suspicious and fearful.This paper intends to provide a framework that allows us to see the source of the problem, to explore some of the causes for human alienation from each other and creation, and to find ways to heal the gap between ourselves and the rest of God’s creation. I believe that all struggles, oppressions and sufferings result from this alienation, and a substantial mission of all religions, at least the Abrahamic religions, is to heal this divide by seeing the other as one’s equal.

scholarly journals Love and Marital Quality in Romantic Relationships Mediated and Non-Mediated by Internet

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (57) ◽  
pp. 105-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karla Rafaela Haack ◽  
Denise Falcke
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Marital Quality ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Physical Relationship ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Relationship

Love is one of the most desired feelings by human beings. According to the triangular theory of love, it is composed of three elements: intimacy, passion and decision/commitment, which constitutes a dimension related to the quality of love the partners perceive in their relationship. This study aims to compare the three elements of love and marital quality of 86 Internet users (43 in a relationship mediated by the Internet and 43 with a physical relationship). The results indicate that there is a significant difference in the intimacy, the decision/commitment and the whole dimension of love, as well as in the marital quality between partners who have a relationship mediated by Internet and the ones in a physical relationship. We can conclude that the Internet is a great tool for people to meet, but that it is important for the relationship to develop in a face-to-face context.

scholarly journals Sumber Daya Manusia yang Berkualitas Dalam Al Qur’an

EL-Ghiroh ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (02) ◽  
pp. 45-60
Author(s):  
Muhamad Akip
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Social Quality ◽  
Quality Of Work ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Rules Set ◽  
Good Deeds

Humans are one of the creatures who have special abilities and occupy the highest position among other creatures based on the fact that many Muslims know the commands and prohibitions of God but the higher and broader their knowledge, the further and often violates the rules set by God and humans. This writing aims to determine the quality of human characters in the Qur'an that makes. Descriptive qualitative method that aims to describe the quality of human resources in the Qur'an. The embodiment of quality human beings must also be supported by the establishment of the quality of faith, science, quality of good deeds, and social quality, and quality of work because these aspects are very closely related, faith will be questioned if not having knowledge and science will be questioned if it is more knowledgeable then it worsening the quality of the faith or relationship with God and the relationship with Man that is indicated from the nature and attitude of Man.

scholarly journals URDU-19 The Islamic Concept of freedom of expression

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-218
Author(s):  
Dr Sajjad Ali Raeesi ◽  
Dr Mujeeb Rehman Abro ◽  
Muneera Khanum
Keyword(s):  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
Human Freedom ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract There is a lot of negotiation on freedom of speech. There is no doubt that man is born free. Every religion in the world is convinced of the freedom of human beings, but to what extent man has this freedom. Is man allowed to put any kind of materialism in the freedom he enjoys or is it not?  Does religion, especially Islam, give freedom to man or not? This research discusses these questions۔ According to divine teachings, man is also made free. However, the freedom of man is rooted in the relationship between man (Abd) and God. The meaning of freedom within divine religions is associated with the concept of humanity (Abdit). The concept of 'Abdit' is very broad in Islam. If a man imagines that he is a servant of God, he must also demonstrate godly worship. The freedom of humanity that is talked about today is terrible, in which the relationship between man and God is not taken care of and Islam is blamed that Islam destroys human freedom. In the ideology of Islam, the freedom of human being is a sacred phenomenon. There is no inflation in this regard. Let man not sell his freedom to any other man. That is, do not enslave anyone other than God. Hazrat Ali ibn Abi Talib said: "O man, do not go into the custody of any other human being, for Allah has created you free.

scholarly journals Infinite Striving and the Infinite Subject: A Kierkegaardian Reply to Schellenberg

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 143-156
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Hanson
Keyword(s):  
Human Beings ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Hiddenness Of God ◽  
The Relationship

In this paper I argue – pace J. L. Schellenberg – that it remains the case for Kierkegaard that infinite striving, properly understood, is essential to the relationship with God, who remains the Infinite Subject, one necessarily hidden for defensible logical, ontological, and existential reasons. Thus Kierkegaard’s arguments for the hiddenness of God as a logically required ingredient in the relationship that human beings are called to undertake with God can withstand Schellenberg’s criticisms.

scholarly journals Peranan Orang Tua dalam Mengembangkan Kecerdasan Emosional dan Spiritual (ESQ) Anak dalam Perspektif Islam

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 229
Author(s):  
Zahrotul Badiah
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Spiritual Intelligence ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
The Family ◽  
Spiritual Nature ◽  
The Relationship

Kecerdasan emosional dan spiritual (ESQ) merupakan penggabungan kecerdasan emosional untuk membentuk hubungan dengan sesama manusia, dan kecerdasan spiritual yang membentuk hubungan dengan Allah, sehingga pada akhirnya akan membentuk  hubungan dengan Allah dan sesama. Asmaul husna adalah kunci dari perkembangan emosional dan spiritual dalam membentuk akhlak yang mulia, karena sumber suasana hati manusia adalah asmaul husna itu sendiri. Selain hal tersebut peran orang tua dalam periode kehidupan seorang anak sangat penting, karena dapat menentukan lebih lanjut tumbuh kembang anak. Oleh karena itu, orang tua harus memberi kesempatan kepada anak-anak untuk tumbuh dan mengeluarkan ide-ide bagus secara emosional dan spiritual pada anak-anak. Dengan demikian, orang tua turut berkembang untuk mengembangkan kecerdasan emosi dan spiritual pada anak-anak. Hal-hal yang mempengaruhi kecerdasan ESQ adalah hubungan dalam keluarga itu sendiri adapun hubungan yang bersifat spiritual bisa melalui ibadah-ibadah ritual semacam shalat, puasa, berdzikir selalu mengingat Allah. Selain itu orang tua juga harus menanamkan prinsip-prinsip kebajikan pada ruh anak. Dalam tulisan ini penulis memaparkan banyak hal-hal yang mempengaruhi ESQ. Emotional and spiritual intelligence (ESQ) is an amalgamation of emotional intelligence to form relationships with fellow human beings, and spiritual intelligence that formed a relationship with God, so that it can form a relationship with God and human beings. Asmaul Husna is a key of emotional and spiritual development in shaping ahlakul karimah, because the source of human mood is asma al-husnā itself. The roles of parents in the period of a child’s life are very important, because it can determine further developments. Therefore, parents should give an opportunity to children to grow and expend good ideas, in  emotional and spiritual ways to children. Thus, parents  should try to develop emotional and spiritual intelligence of children. ESQ is affected by the relationships within the family itself and the relationship for the spiritual nature  can be through some sort of ritual forms of worship prayer, fasting, always remember Allah. In addition parents should also inculcate principles of virtue in the spirit of the child. In this paper the author exposes many things that affect ESQ.           Kata kunci: kecerdasan, emosional, spiritual

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