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Narges Nazarnejad,
Volume 3, Issue 2 (10-2022)
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The current study examines Plantinga's anti-evidentialist position through the perspective of applied philosophy of religion, illustrating how epistemological positions can have detrimental practical effects. The article's main claim is that entering the postmodern era and distancing thinkers like Plantinga from general rationality and lowering its standards, including the duty to ground claims on sufficient evidence, has eventually caused reason to be excluded from religious dialogue or to talk about a kind of regional rationality. The consequence of this transformation is the obstruction of dialogue between followers of various religions on the one hand, and believers and non-believers on the other, and lastly, the deprivation of human beings of common and agreed-upon criteria for criticizing each other's beliefs. When the issue of obstruction of dialogue and critique is combined with the fact that there is a close link between beliefs and actions, the problem becomes even worse; because without general criteria for criticizing beliefs, it will be impossible to criticize the actions resulting from them, and all groups, including extremist groups, will be able to absolve themselves of responsibility for their actions and justify their possible crimes in practice.
 
Rasoul Rasoulipour, Hamed Aliakbarzadeh,
Volume 4, Issue 2 (12-2023)
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The Theology of Event" is a new approach to theology that is rooted in postmodern philosophies. The concept that John D. Caputo, the American philosopher of religion, based on the ideas of her teacher Jacques Derrida, has established to negate the theological systems based on traditional western philosophy and seeks religion minus metaphysics. Event Theology tells about a kind of instability in meaning, and depicts a threshold and indeterminate situation in theological concepts. This attitude denies the permission of any absolutism and systematization, and in a word, metaphysics-centeredness in theological concepts from human thought. The Theology of Event talks about concepts that are continuously being realized, an open, unpredictable, and uncontrollable future, and instead of epistemological strains, it emphasizes the pragmatic and existential features of religion.  In the Theology of Events, instead of dealing with religious knowledge, which is necessarily a metaphysical matter, serious attention is paid to religious rituals such as altruism, good deeds, seeking justice, and ethics. But from a critical point of view, one should ask whether theology minus metaphysics is conceivable in principle? In other words, is it possible to enter the field of theology without philosophical interpretation and formulation? This article is an answer to this basic question against the concept of the Theology of Events.


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