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  • The Subject’s Destruction? A Note on Adorno’s Sublime 
    De Maeseneer, Yves (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2005)
    Our expectations were far from fulfilled since almost no space had been given to theology. My automatic grammar checking immediately marked this opening sentence as undesirable. It runs against one of the basic rules on ...
  • Reply to Jonkers 
    Hemming, Laurence Paul (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2005)
    It is impossible to read Peter Jonkers’ reflection on Postmodernity’s Transcending without picking up his sense of disappointment and bewilderment about the text. I want to make only a few remarks, perhaps reflecting my ...
  • Some Reflections on Postmodernity’s Transcending from the Perspective of Modern Philosophy 
    Jonkers, Peter (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2005)
    Laurence Paul Hemming’s book offered me the opportunity to study postmodern theology more closely and to examine the ways in which it wants to make use of pre-modern, modern and post-modern philosophical insights in order ...
  • Free Will as a Continuum with Self-Imposing Constraints Are Unconsciousness, Physical Tendency, and Free Will Compatible? 
    Yu, Chong Ho (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2013)
    Two seminal experiments in neuroscience indicated that brain activities were detected by EEG or fMRI before the participants were aware of their decisions. The findings suggested that free will is an illusion. It is assumed ...
  • Neurocalvinism: Calvinism as a Paradigm for Neuroscience 
    Vlastuin, Willem van (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2013)
    In order to assert that the determinism of neuroscience is comparable with that of Calvinism, Dick Swaab, a leading neuroscientist, speaks of ‘neurocalvinism.’ To test this assertion, the author uses the classic view of ...
  • ‘Theologies of the Body’ Devotional Fitness in US Evangelicalism 
    Radermacher, Martin (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2013)
    This paper presents cases of religious embodiment which are concrete corporeal manifestations of ‘theologies of the body.’ Beginning in the second half of the 20th century, US evangelicals have developed biblically based ...
  • Celebrating the Neuroscientific Body Sacramentally: Reading the Body as Sacrament – A Radical Incarnational Theo-logos 
    Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2013)
    Philosophy of religion can embrace the discoveries of neuroscience and thereby endorse these scientific texts, whilst offering a prophetic discord with regards to the reading of these texts. Certain neuroscientific discoveries ...
  • Trinity, Embodiment and Gender 
    Haverinen, Soili (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2013)
    This article will scrutinize the approaches of Janet Martin Soskice and Gavin D’Costa to the Trinity, embodiment and gender. It argues that the doctrine of the Trinity is closely connected with embodiment, and assesses ...
  • God’s World – God’s Body 
    Enxing, Julia (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2013)
    If the majority of process theologians and some feminist theologians are right, then God’s world can be understood as God’s body. A view that reveals environmental degradation in a different light. The essay ‘God’s World ...
  • Experience and Empiricism in Testing the Free Will: What Phenomenology Offers a Discussion of Embodied Religion 
    Englert, Alexander T. (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2013)
    This paper offers a critique of empirical tests of the free will, aiming at a presupposition underpinning the experiments’ methodology. The presupposition is that the artificial reporting of machines is prima facie directly ...
  • I Think Therefore I Am Not Mystical Desire and the Dispossession of the Cogito 
    Conty, Arianne (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2013)
    This article sets out to question the understanding of religion as a purely spiritual relationship with God by focusing on the mystical experience of ecstasy, an experience that has often been described as leaving the body ...
  • Dignity, Autonomy and Embodiment 
    Cottingham, John (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2013)
    The inalienable dignity of all human beings is independent of circumstances, capacities, or qualifications. Kantian autonomy (construed as the rational will, or the ability to exercise it) cannot ground such a notion. The ...
  • Religion, Morality and Being Human: The Controversial Status of Human Dignity 
    Dalferth, Ingolf U. (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2013)
    ‘Dignity’ holds a controversial place in contemporary debates in ethics, policy, and studies in human personhood. Is ‘dignity’ a property predicated of something called ‘human’? Is it something humans have by virtue of ...
  • Theism, Compatibilism and Neurodeterminism: A Response to Marcel Sarot 
    Visala, Aku (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2013)
    Christian theology affirms that humans are free. In his paper ‘Christian Faith, Free Will and Neuroscience,’Marcel Sarot defends the view that libertarianism is the best account of our freedom and argues that recent results ...
  • Christian Faith, Free Will and Neuroscience 
    Sarot, Marcel (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2013)
    In this contribution I explain what the libertarian conception of free will is, and why it is of moral and religious importance. Consequently, I defend this conception of free will against secular and religious charges. ...
  • Arguments for a Symbol Theory of Embodied Religion: A Response to Mark Wynn 
    Barth, Roderich (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2013)
    Within a scientistic view of the world, rituals and sacraments are suspect. They are often invoked as proof of the incompatibility of religion and modernity. Mark Wynn employs important theoretical and phenomenological ...
  • Sacramental Sensibility and the ‘Embodiment of God’ 
    Wynn, Mark (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2013)
    In this paper I follow the conference theme, by considering how ‘rituals and sacraments’ may function as ‘material expressions of a spiritual reality’ and even as ‘embodiments of God’. I begin by noting some of the ways ...
  • A Singular Question: Mitsein, συνουσια, and υφος The Unsaid in Postmodernity’s Transcending: Devaluing God 
    Hemming, Laurence Paul (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2005)
    In beginning, I owe a great many debts of thanks. First and foremost to Lieven Boeve, whose invitation and encouragement first brought me to Leuven to undertake the research that eventually became Postmodernity’s ...
  • The Embodied Character of ‘Acknowledging God’: A Contribution to Understanding the Relationship between Transcendence and Embodiment on the Basis of Hosea 
    Schaafsma, Petruschka (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2013)
    In this article I follow Bornemark’s approach to clarify the embodied character of religion ‘via the text’ by turning to the book of Hosea. Hosea is especially suitable for studying the controversy over the body in religion ...
  • ‘Räumen ist Freigabe von Orten’ Place, Calculation and Politics in Hemming’s Postmodernity’s Transcending 
    Elden, Stuart (Ars Disputandi: The Online Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2005)
    The epigraph to this book is a quote from Martin Heidegger: ‘Räumen ist Freigabe von Orten’ (p. v). It comes from one of Heidegger’s last essays, ‘Art and Space’, delivered in 1969, and can be rendered as ‘making space ...