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9. Causal Presuppositions of Prayer

Causal Presuppositions of Prayer

My primary incursion into Theology has been the question of whether the existence of God can be proved or disproved – and my answer has consistently been that we can do neither decisively, but must take that proposition on faith, or refuse it on more or less the s…

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Contents

 

Table of contents

1.         Chapter One

1.         Logic and mysticism

2.         On natural proofs of religion

3.         Theodicy and the Believer’s Wager

4.         Proof of God by analogy?

5.         Disproofs of God?

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8. Sundry Reflections on the Soul and God

 

1.     About the soul

 

The soul is what we regard as the essence of a person, the unitary substance that is both subject of consciousness and agent of volition. This soul need only be present during the life of the physical organism sustaining it, not before or after.

Ontologi…

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References

 

Cheng, Hsueh-li.  Empty Logic – Madhyamika Buddhism from Chinese Sources.  Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1991.

Curtis, Helena and Barnes, N. Sue.  Invitation to Biology.  4th ed.  New York: Worth, 1985.

de Sola Pool, David. Book of Prayers. New York: Union of Sephardic Congregations…

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