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Alvin Plantinga's free-will defense is a logical argument developed by the American analytic philosopher Alvin Plantinga and published in its final version in his 1977 book God, Freedom, and Evil. [1] Plantinga's argument is a defense against the logical problem of evil as formulated by the philosopher J. L. Mackie beginning in 1955.
A messenger comes to Kalevipoeg and informs him of a battle against his people. Canto X - The heroes and the Water-Demon While Kalevipoeg and his cousin Alevipoeg are walking through the country they come across a pair of demons arguing over the ownership of a pool. Alevipoeg drains the pool, but the host water-demon asks him to desist.
Belief in demons probably goes back to the Paleolithic age, stemming from humanity's fear of the unknown, the strange and the horrific. In ancient Near Eastern religions and in the Abrahamic religions , including early Judaism and ancient-medieval Christian demonology , a demon is considered a harmful spiritual entity which may cause demonic ...
Book XIX: the end of the two cities, and the happiness of the people of Christ. Book XX: the prophecies of the Last Judgment in the Old and New Testaments. Book XXI: the eternal punishment for the city of the devil. Book XXII: the eternal happiness for the saints and explanations of the resurrection of the body.
Apologetics is the whole of the consensus of the views of those who defend a position in an argument of long standing. General: List of apologetic works Polemic
Lewis's trilemma is an apologetic argument traditionally used to argue for the divinity of Jesus by postulating that the only alternatives were that he was evil or mad. [1] One version was popularized by University of Oxford literary scholar and writer C. S. Lewis in a BBC radio talk and in his writings.
Daemonologie—in full Dæmonologie, In Forme of a Dialogue, Divided into three Books: By the High and Mightie Prince, James &c.—was first published in 1597 [1] by King James VI of Scotland (later also James I of England) as a philosophical dissertation on contemporary necromancy and the historical relationships between the various methods of divination used from ancient black magic.
A review stated: "Berlinski’s biography and book raises at least two questions: first, given the book’s powerful arguments in favor of religious belief, why is the author not religious? And second, given that the author is not religious, doesn’t this spirited defense of religion deserve an honest hearing?" [1]