Metaphysical naturalism

Religion is not a word that could be defined by one strict meaning. It is, in a sense, limitless. The terminology can be applied to sports, “Football is my religion”. It can be something someone does routinely, “I religiously go to visit my parents”. Yet the most common practice of the word religion typically deals with a set of beliefs, regarding after life, gods, and how your time on earth should be spent. People desperately try to define religion. Reason being, simply because people want…

Socrates as one of the founders of Western philosophy opened a new chapter for the humankind. He considers rhetoric as a form of deception which only casually informs people for the sake of arguing for egotistical motives. He initially has started questioning almost everything around him and was looking for logical answers. So, as a person, who believed in the reasons he did not want to accept any position without a thought. Socrates believed that the art of rhetoric does not require lots of…

Ultimate questions have always been perennial in their discussion. Within Christianity, the Genesis creation stories have provided comfort to adherents surrounding the beginning of the universe and our destiny. The themes developed throughout the Genesis stories are still valid in the post-modern era. This is because, they provide foundational morals and guidelines which are important for society, and innate to our being. These stories are used by Christian adherents as a structure for solving…

goodness reflected in evolution. Next, engaging with evolutionary theodicy, I present a Trinitarian divine action in creation in the context of the eschatological ontology of creation. I believe this study is significant in that it goes beyond metaphysical naturalism, scientific creationism, and the two-language approach by respecting both the integrity of natural sciences and the gospel of God’s self-communication in Christ and the ecclesial community’s Christocentric reasoning in the presence…