Das Lehrbuch gibt einen Überblick über die zentralen Fragestellungen und Theorien der Religionsphilosophie. In fünf Kapiteln werden die wichtigsten Argumente und Kontroversen vorgestellt. Dabei werden nicht nur theistische und atheistische Ansätze diskutiert, sondern auch nicht-theistische Positionen z.B. aus der indischen und chinesischen Philosophie. Die Einführung ist auf dem neuesten Forschungsstand und berücksichtigt auch aktuelle Debatten zum Verhältnis von Religion und Säkularisierung, zur Rolle von Religion in der Öffentlichkeit sowie zu religiöser Diversität und Interreligiosität.

Becoming is a process in which a thing moves from one state to another. In Section 1, the study will elaborate on the discussion of the Aristotelian causes taken broadly, primarily focusing on the relation between efficient and final causes. In Section 2, the study discusses the implications of Scotus’s conception of freedom, as it is reflected in the relation of the future to the past, for the efficient and final causalities. Similarly in Section 3 an examination of Scotus’s conception (...) of matter is conducted. Based on the ideas established in these sections, the study attempts to present an initial Scotistic view of becoming. -/- . (shrink)

The paper will explore a key tension between eternity and temporality that comes to the fore in the seeming contradiction between freedom of the human will and divine foreknowledge of future contingents. It will be claimed that Duns Scotus’s adaptation of Thomas Aquinas’s view reduces the tension between a human being’s freedom and divine foreknowledge of future contingents to the question of how to conflate the now of eternity and our experience of the instantaneous now. Scotus’s account of the matter (...) is unfortunately not satisfying and it is the purpose of this paper to develop this insight further in a speculative manner. In order to make such co-nowness possible, it will be asked how the eternal and the temporal can co-cause together. This problem will be tackled through a development of Scotus’s doctrine of the will taken elsewhere, in order to examine how the divine and the human wills can occur together. It will be claimed that such co-willing produces a co-nowness of the eternal and the instantaneous ‘nows’ which generates a logical temporal movement. (shrink)