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In this paper we do point out in the first place what is social modernization, and then we talk about the relations of social modernization and religiosity: a) the notion of social modernization, b) social modernization and secularization, c) social modernization and desecularization, d) socio-cultural pluralism and religion. Social modernization doesn’t have to therefore to lead into more and more...
Clive S. Lewis is thought to be one of the most important contemporary Christian apologist. In his works, Lewis argued against naturalism and put forward arguments in support of theism. In doing so, he referred to experience and made use of laws of logic and probabilistic reasoning, hence meeting rationality criteria. Part I discusses Lewis’s arguments from the existence of morality, reason, desires...
The title of this article promises to focus on religion as a motivational drive for terrorism. However, I am far from thoughtless replicating the term ’religious terrorism’. It mistakenly suggests some presumed obviousness in defining the problem. Meanwhile, in recent decades the so-called critical terrorism studies have repeatedly proved that such labeling generates problems instead of explaining...
The religious language is considered to be a variety of the general language with the emphasis on the function it performs within a particular community using it on a daily basis. The Neopentecostal language is one of the examples. It is characteristic of the Neopentecostal community, as its name suggests. Not only the functional grammar but also the sociolinguistic as well as the psycholinguistic...
Feuerbach argued that God is not the creator of man, but man is the creator of God. It led him to the conclusion that the secret of theology is anthropology. According to Stirner, Feuerbach proposes, at most, formal reclassification of concepts, still being a religious thinker, because he deifies the species-understood Man. The article is devoted to Stirner’s criticism of Feuerbach and polemic with...
This paper aim is to reconstruct the role or religion and spirituality in the history of the Third Reich in order to highlight a much more important issue. This issue is related to the implementation of an authoritarian pedagogy in which various tools are being used to instrumentalize the human subject. Therefore this paper highlights the most significant elements of the processes that had led to...
The question asked by Socrates in Plato’s Eutyphro: ’Is the pious dear to the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is dear to the gods?’ can be understood as symbol of a growing tension between religion and philosophy (faith and reason). Additionally, this question is linked to a crucial issue of morality’s foundations because a question ‘what is pious?’ can be interpretated as a question...
This article will present two media incidents that occurred in April 2019 in two dioceses of the Catholic Church in Poland. These events share several features, one of which – the burning of objects (which I described as modern autodafe) – is an important connecting factor. The purpose of the article will be cultural, media and religious studies analysis of these events.
The article poses a thesis that the distinctive features of Polish philosophical and social thought are educational criticism, practicalism, activism, elitist egalitarianism, as well as religiousness. What is more, Polish philosophy focuses on man and his journey to perfection. The article stresses the importance, or even necessity, of developing Polish philosophy, which should be done in a European...
In these remarks I make the attempt to highlight a much pointed out in the media problem of the controversial behavior of Christian clergy, including the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, as well the popes themselves. I call these sins. It is not – in my opinion – an abuse of the term, because the are a breach of norms and moral rules of that religion (and not only that). Those who commit them...
The article analyzes and criticizes the assumptions of Peter Van Inwagen’s argument for the alleged contradiction of the foreknowledge of God and human freedom. The argument is based on the sine qua non condition of human freedom defined as access to possible worlds containing such a continuation of the present in which the agent implements a different action than will be realized de facto in the...
Referring to the concept of “hidden God” – Deus absconditus has become very popular today. In contemporary philosophical-religious literature, theories built around this concept can often be found. I believe that the reference to this concept has a special meaning in our times. In my paper I will reconstruct the patterns of the “stages of gods’ life” in archaic religions. Against this background,...
What is the Transcendence Testimony? An attempt at answering this question on the basis of Paul Ricoeur’s texts runs into a distinction between “external” testimony, that is, an eyewitness’s account of the course of events, and “internal” testimony, that is, the confirmation of a person’s beliefs by the course of events. Ricoeur seeks to show that the religious meaning of testimony that emerges in...
The article is an attempt at philosophical reflection on the possibility of rational justification of religion and its place in today’s world by recreating Leszek Kołakowski’s intellectual path to the Absolute as a guarantor of the value and its apology of Christianity in this context. Following the movement of thoughts in works from Religious consciousness and The Church Bond through The Presence...
The first premise of Schellenberg’s hiddenness argument is that God, as a perfect being, is obliged to establish a relationship of love with each of his personal creatures. It seems, however, that the attribute of God’s love cannot be understood in exactly the same way as it relates to love between people. God’s transcendence presupposes that he is completely different from human beings. Therefore,...
Tekst dotyczy jubileuszu profesora Józefa Baniaka – siedemdziesiątych urodzin i czterdziestolecia pracy naukowo-badawczej. Autor nawiązując do dorobku Profesora, wspomina głos krytyczny, którego sens podważa konkretnymi przykładami.
What is meant by “philosophy after Auschwitz”? How do we categorize thinkers into this discipline? Such categorization poses no problem where Jewish or German philosophers and theologians are concerned. In Poland, this type of thinking is commonly considered as virtually absent. Prof. Józef Tischner observed: “Heidegger says: ‘Man in his being was focused on his own being.’ Sartre says: ‘Hell is other...
In common views scholars belong to a group of people either non-believing in the existence of God and his creational powers, or at least distancing themselves from several of such beliefs which is shared by the majority of the society. The research in this matter shows that this issue is quite diverse when put into practice, also in such a leading in scientific achievements country like the United...
The cultural spread of religious representations is determined by both cognitive and non-cognitive determinants. While the cognitive determinants have been studied by the cognitive science of religious, much less attention is given to such determinants of religious thought as language, especially written language, and material artefacts. This article focuses on the role of material artefacts in the...
The main purpose of this essay is a systematic presentation of the concept of religious experience and cognition in Jan Andrzej Kłoczowski’s philosophy of religion. The starting point is a definition of religion not only as a system of beliefs but also as an event, as a domain of reli-gious experience and practice. A religious experience in Kłoczowski’s account has no punctual characteristic but it...
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