Sense Of God Research Articles

Ahmet Yesevi’de Aşk Kavramı: Divan-ı Hikmet Üzerine Bir İnceleme

As in Sufi thought, the concept of love is one of the fundamental dynamics of Ahmad Yasawi’s thought. According to Yasawi, it is only by love possible that the human being can communicate with his creator. Therefore, all creatures have innate love. Love, a mediator between man and his Lord, is a fire that burns everything except the beloved. If there was no love, there would not be any being. Thus, reason and logic alone never suffice to understand the existence. So, the nature of life is incomprehensible without love. The sense of love is a characteristic exclusive to human among the beings. Islam, the most appropriate religion for human nature, and Islamic society formed in the spiritual atmosphere of this religion have processed this divine and human sense especially through mysticism in accordance with the purpose of the creation of humankind, and transformed it into the driving force of Islamic civilization. Not found as a term but included as a concept in the Qur'an and Sunnah, love (ishq) is in detail discussed in the Sufi works, and expressed by a great deal of symbols. According to the Sufi thought, the reason for the creation of the creatures is Allah's desire to be known and the affection he has toward his creatures. Therefore, the creatures have risen to the level of existence owing to the affection between the Creator and the created. Due to the fact that love is a feeling exclusive to humankind, human being has become the caliph of Allah. The concept of love is of great importance in the Sufi thought, especially in Diwan al-Hikmah by Ahmad Yasawi.

Pendidikan Karakter Dalam Tasawuf Modern Hamka Dan Tasawuf Transformatif Kontemporer


 The concept of character education in Hamka's modern mysticism, including sincerity, fear, zuhud, and resignation. Sincerity requires the existence of siddiq and a sense of fear of fear that exists in humans, put only on God, namely fear because of the doom, torment and wrath of Allah. The character of zuhud is born as a manifestation of faith. Tawakkal is interpreted as a form of submission of decisions of every human endeavor and effort only to Allah SWT. Approach in character education, Hamka offers a trilogy of the concept of Sufism trilogy, namely takhalli, tahalli, and tajalli. Takhalli, is self-liberation from despicable qualities. Tahalli, is the stage of filling and decorating yourself with commendable attitudes. Tajalli is an appreciation of the divine sense or in Hamka's terms, "God looks in the heart. While the concept of character education in contemporary transformative Sufism shows the enthusiasm for returning to a more positive form and purity of religious teachings which in general is an actual form of religious style of the urban community. Achievements to be addressed by contemporary transformative mysticism, including: closeness with God, the presence of God in muraqabah, and became al-Insan al-Kamil.

Naming God’s presence in preaching

Does preaching bring God on stage? Protestants assume an intimate relationship between the ‘Word of God’ and preaching. However, the principle that ‘preaching of the Word of God is the Word of God’ caused intense debates about the status of God language. The author highlights the classic disputes of the 19th and 20th centuries and argues that the old dilemma must be overcome. Sermons address the subjective-contextual conditions of the listeners, and this in no way precludes the attention for divine disclosure. On the contrary, there is a true reciprocity between personal spirituality and the sense of God as really other. The author defends the thesis that the renewed attention for the human condition in the theological debates of the last decades should also include a positive stand towards the believer’s spiritual awareness of God’s real existence and presence.

The Spirit, Giver of Life: Pneumatology and the Re-Enchantment of Medicine

AbstractIn “Science as a Vocation,” Max Weber identifies a trajectory within modernity of increased rationalization, which results in a dangerous loss of meaning, a marginalization of religion, and a disenchanted view of the world. Weber’s misunderstanding of religion as premodern and “magical” results in his underestimating how religion can contribute to “re-enchanting” a field of knowledge, specifically medicine. This article proposes to turn to a theology of the Holy Spirit as “giver of life” for resources to “re-enchant” medicine. Re-enchantment does not require returning to a magical view of the world but retrieving a real sense of God at work in the world, thereby enabling the health care worker and scientist to arrive at a deeper understanding of vocation.

Teacher pilgrims at World Youth Day: a preliminary examination

ABSTRACT This paper examines the experiences of six teachers from a regional, Australian diocese who attended World Youth Day (WYD). It also reports on aspects of their worldview and their experience working in Catholic schools. Overall participants were very positive about working in Catholic schools, and though not connected in an ongoing way with parish communities, they were happy to support the religious dimension of Catholic schools and were often involved in parish-based programmes when there was a connection with school activities. Their worldview could be characterised as having much in common with dominant cultural paradigms that sees religion in moral terms along with a deistic sense of God. Established social networks supported them in these views. Teacher pilgrims reported that WYD gave them the opportunity to experience a broader, more diverse Catholicism as well as the experience of going overseas and being part of a large gathering. Participation in WYD may open up opportunities for reflective discernment on the part of teacher pilgrims and a result has implications for the formation of teachers working in Catholic schools.

Sensus divinitatis jako koncepcja genezy przekonań teistycznych

W koncepcji Alvina Plantingi, sensus divinitatis („zmysł boskości”) jest ludzką władzą poznawczą, nakierowaną na tworzenie posiadających gwarancję (pozytywny status epistemiczny) przekonań o Bogu. Większość komentatorów myśli Plantingi koncentruje się na pytaniu, czy wprowadzenie tej koncepcji faktycznie pozwala obronić racjonalność przekonań teistycznych, pomijając przy tym zazwyczaj genetyczny aspekt funkcjonowania zmysłu boskości. Niniejszy artykuł ma na celu wypełnienie tej luki. Na podstawie Warranted Christian Belief Plantingi wyróżniam trzy możliwe interpretacje tego, jak sensus divinitatis tworzy przekonania teistyczne. Wskazuję także, w jaki sposób ludzki grzech wpływa na poprawne funkcjonowanie zmysłu w ramach każdej z tych interpretacji.

Sex Workers' Religiousity and Faith in God: Case Study on “Ayam Kampus” in East Java, Indonesia

Prostitution is often called to be a social disease that is far from anchoring the values of religiousness, especially diversity. It is normal if the stigma of tilting towards sex workers arises from insults, mocks, until the behavior of ignorance shown by the clergy. Even though sex workers are outside the circle of prostitution, they are giddy looking for life's meaning in the form of religious feelings in which there is a sense of divinity. Therefore, this article tries to understand the reality of religion - in which there are also emerging of sex workers. The reality is analyzed using the theory of dramaturgy which divides prostitution into the front stage (the practice of prostitution) and the rear stage (the privacy of sex workers). This article uses a qualitative approach to the type of phenomenology that portrays the practice of ayam kampus prostitution in East Java. Data collection used in-depth interviews and participant observation; Data analysis used the interactive models of Miles and Hubermann. This research found that the front stage of the practice of prostitution has never been friendly with the presence of God, especially to express its diversity. But, on the back stage, they can expose themselves in their religiosity and divinity with full serenity and appreciation. The conclusions of this research is the religiosity practiced by sex workers is separated from the normative symbol of religion, while God is immersed tightly in their soul and God is present in the most subjective and impersonal form in him.

Mengungkap Aspek Sedekah dalam Transaksi Mangpaindan Doi pada Masyarakat Lunjen Enrekang

The focus of this research is the practice of transaction and doi and aspects of charity in the transaction. This study uses a qualitative paradigm with a phenomenal approach. The data validity testing uses data triangulation techniques and theory triangulation to improve data validity and reliability. The results of this study are (1) the mechanism of transactions that are carried out and carried out by individual Lunjen people has no witnesses, no written form, and no return agreement. (2) Money inflation in other transactions and transactions occurs between the lending time and payment of the debt. (3) The results of the qardh alms calculation obtained state that each muqridl gives alms qardh and also muqtaridl obtains the opposite. Transactions and doi have sharia added value (shari'ah value added) such as economic value added to the charity aspect of value reduction (inflation), mental added value to altruistic feelings and spiritual added value, namely sincerity and a sense of God's presence

MENGGALI PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER ANAK “Perspektif R.A. Kartini”

<p>There is still an urgent figure of RA Kartini reviewed and used as a historical reference. It is interesting to know the background of her family situation, social, and religious conditions of RA Kartini during her lifetime so that all make her to be the ideal figure, a woman whose had strong spirit at her time, dynamic, and be independent, high intellectual, modern -minded, also had social sensitivity and a spirit of nationalism and a sense of God. Due to her thought and struggle, she labels as an Indonesian women movement pioneer, an intellectual, an educator, a journalist, and a social worker. RA Kartini’s biography shows a lot of factors that affect their lives, including her thoughts. By analyzing her historical life, there are some character building factors that can be uploaded in children education nowadays, namely: strong, smart, and religious. Critical social character, educator character, and social character with a progressive vision are what began to disappear in today children education. RA Kartini’s character building can be used as a reference for Indonesian to build a strong and visionary one, that can be started from the base of Raudhotul Atfal Teacher Education (PGRA).</p>

Book Review: Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical

Book Review: Making Sense of God: An Invitation to the Skeptical

Messiaen analyzes Messiaen: author’s comments on the piano cycle «Twenty Contemplations on the Infant Jesus»

Messiaen analyzes Messiaen: author’s comments on the piano cycle «Twenty Contemplations on the Infant Jesus»

Overtuigend gezag. De schriftvisie en wijze van omgang met de Schrift van Alvin Plantinga

This article analyzes and evaluates Alvin Plantinga view of the status and authority of the Bible. It shows the relevance of two or more kinds of Christian Biblical scholarship Plantinga develops in Warranted Christian Belief. Plantinga argues that we can speak of knowledge when there is a warrant.Cognitive faculties include a sense of experience, the sensus divinitatis, and the inner witness of the Holy Spirit. A properly functioning cognitive faculty produces knowledge. The Christian belief that the Bible is the Word of God is not just a conviction but knowledge, knowledge that leads one to glorify and enjoy God.

How Psychiatry Fails to Understand or Help Women in CanadaMuch Madness, Divinest Sense: Women’s Stories of Mental Health and Health Care. By Nili Kaplan-Myrth and Lori Hanson. East Lawrenceton, Canada: Pottersfield, 2017.

How Psychiatry Fails to Understand or Help Women in Canada<i>Much Madness, Divinest Sense: Women’s Stories of Mental Health and Health Care</i>. By Nili Kaplan-Myrth and Lori Hanson. East Lawrenceton, Canada: Pottersfield, 2017.

Reforming reformed epistemology: a new take on the sensus divinitatis

AbstractAlvin Plantinga theorizes the existence of a sensus divinitatis – a special cognitive faulty or mechanism dedicated to the production and non-inferential justification of theistic belief. Following Chris Tucker, we offer an evidentialist-friendly model of the sensus divinitatis whereon it produces theistic seemings that non-inferentially justify theistic belief. We suggest that the sensus divinitatis produces these seemings by tacitly grasping support relations between the content of ordinary experiences (in conjunction with our background evidence) and propositions about God. Our model offers advantages such as eliminating the need for a sui generis religious faculty, harmonizing the sensus divinitatis with prominent theories in the cognitive science of religion, and providing a superior account of natural revelation.

How to Use Cognitive Faculties You Never Knew You Had

AbstractNorman forms the belief that the president is in New York by way of a clairvoyance faculty he doesn’t know he has. Many agree that his belief is unjustified but disagree about why it is unjustified. I argue that the lack of justification cannot be explained by a higher‐level evidence requirement on justification, but it can be explained by a no‐defeater requirement. I then explain how you can use cognitive faculties you don’t know you have. Lastly, I use lessons from the foregoing to compare Norman's belief, formed by clairvoyance, with Sally's theistic belief, formed by a sensus divinitatis.

Die Suche nach Gottes Spuren in zwei Büchern

Abstract How to read God’s traces in two books, in creation and the Holy Scripture? In search of a resilient faith the article develops the metaphor of the ‘two scriptures’ (Conf. Belg. § 2) in five steps: The first step are methodological considerations on the metaphor of the ‘book’. The second step points to the plurality within both books. They are both libraries with three departments: Old and New Testament and the history of their reception on the one side, the physical, biological and cultural evolution as some kind of a ‘history of reception’ of our prehistory on the other side. The third step underscores the ambiguity of both books: they can be read in modern times as signs with and without God as author. They are comparable to a ‘tilting picture’ open for two interpretations. The fourth step concerns the reader of the books: He or she is crucial to interpret the two books. We must postulate a sensus divinitatis (J. Calvin inst. I,3,1) with a priori and a posteriori aspects. As a last step there is a statement concerning the message of the two books, how they together may establish resilience. The book of creation is not at all a theologia gloriae as Martin Luther stated in the Heidelberger Disputation 1518, on the contrary, the theologia crucis of the Bible opens our eyes for vicarious suffering in the whole creation, the theologia gloriae of the creation supports the praising of God in the Bible.

«Sensus divinitatis» и «мистическое восприятие»: две модели эпистемического оправдания религиозных убеждений

The article deals with the problem of epistemic justification of religious beliefs. The autor considers two accounts of epistemic justification which were proposed by two influential contemporary philosophers of religion, Alvin Plantinga and William Alston. According to Plantinga, religious beliefs can acquire their justification due to a reliable belief-forming mechanism called sensus divinitatis. According to Alston, justification of religious beliefs is the function of doxastic practices some of which can use mystical experience as their source. It has been demonstrated that despite of the essential differences the proposed justification models shares some of their charaterics, including of some common shortages. In particular, none of them is able to account for genuiness of epistemic contact with God as the object of knowledge without the reference to the reliablity of the belief-forming mechanisms through which the cognizer forms the beliefs in question. This means that both accounts are vulnerable to the problem of “epistemic circularity”. The author proposes a virtue epistemological solution to the problem. According to this solution, a double determination – first, from the part of God who being the supreme good and truth does attract the will of the cognizer, and, second, from the part of the epistemic virtues that move the cognizer towards the truth and away from the error, – could impart to the religious beliefs a positive epistemic status.

Una formulación actualizada de las vías tomistas para demostrar la existencia de Dios: el argumento ontológico y las tres primeras vías”.

Este artículo trata sobre las relaciones entre el conocimiento de Dios y la experiencia sensorial y sobre las tres primeras vías tomistas para demostrar la existencia de Dios. Complementa las vías con los aportes y críticas de las perspectivas fenomenológico-realista y analítica. Para lograr esto de manera sintética, selecciona un autor central de cada una de estas tradiciones: Josef Seifert y Richard Swinburne.

Must God Be Dead? Reinventing the Sacred

ABSTRACTNewton became a death knell for a theistic God and for a non-epiphenominal mind. The culprit is the deterministic causal closure of classical physics. Two major revolutions are taking us beyond this closure. The first is Quantum Mechanics, which is non-deterministic. The second revolution may just be happening. The emergence and evolution of life in our or any biosphere is governed by no law at all. This freedom suggests one sense of God as the natural creativity of the Universe.

A Spirituality of Exile: Responding to God's Absence

In the journey of faith almost everyone experiences times of spiritual desolation when our sense of God's presence is stripped away and our certainty about his faithfulness is deeply eroded. Times like this are intensely disorienting as they leave us grasping for answers, but even more importantly searching for a way forward. The literature of the Bible provides us with both experiential companionship and language to guide our journey through the desolate places of spiritual experience. The prayer language of exile offers us a paradigm for engaging with God in the midst of our experience of his absence. In particular the biblical book of Lamentations and a number of Psalms (44, 74, 79, 89, 102, 106 and 137) provide language that helped Israel express the depths of their suffering in the face of their exilic experience. The prayer language of exile is the language of God's absence. Through the language of exilic prayer we encounter the bold movements of lament, remembrance, reorientation, and hope. These acts of prayerful speech form the core of a spirituality of exile that sustained the ancient community and can offer nourishment to contemporary journeys of desolation as well.