The quest for a unifying world view is as old as humankind, and it is essential to find an adequa... more The quest for a unifying world view is as old as humankind, and it is essential to find an adequate foundation to guide humanity towards a right destiny. The idea of human inadequacy has two phases: mental and spiritual. Man is inadequate in attaining supernal knowledge, but this does not promote the agnostic conception, which denies the possibility of divine knowledge. Christian Theology believes in divine disclosure to attain such knowledge and denies the absolute denial of divine knowledge. The human mind is prone to forgetfulness of God, error, and the creation of fictitious religions, leading to finite human ability. Man's judgments are often based on empirical evidence and logic, while the existential quest for the meaning of life lies beyond this. Ultimately, man needs to be dependent on God to know eternal truth, understand the divine purpose of his existence, and recognize and spurn hollow and deceptive philosophies that will result in a fatal destiny.
A worldview or a philosophy of life is one’s sum of beliefs about world and existence. This set o... more A worldview or a philosophy of life is one’s sum of beliefs about world and existence. This set of beliefs answers the basic and ultimate questions of life according to the philosophy subscribed. The purpose of existence and hope of future derived from the worldview is the meaning of life. Every one of us subscribe to a worldview through which we understand and interpret the world, our existence, and destiny. Those who hold the Naturalistic view of life cling to the set of beliefs which is purely materialistic where there no room for the belief or the need for intervention of God in human life at any sphere. On the other hand, some hold on to the religious philosophy of life where the answers for the ultimate questions of life is derived from God Himself, and thus, the meaning of life itself is provided by God. While Naturalistic and Christian interpretations of life conflict with each other, this paper contemplates on the ultimate questions from both perspectives in order to assess their rationality and reliability.
Revelation is the supernal proclamation of Divine Reality and divine truths, which is the superna... more Revelation is the supernal proclamation of Divine Reality and divine truths, which is the supernatural initiative that permeates into the peculiar knowledge, for it is fashioned of supernatural truths, as the result of sovereign plan and purpose of its initiator, to humanity. Nowhere does the crisis of theology find a more critical center than in the controversy over the reality and nature of divine disclosure, because of the position of revelation as the postulate of the Christian realistic world-view. Therefore, our attention will be centered in this paper on the basic conception of revelation, especially its means, content, and nature, in Christian Theology.
Can humans have meaning in life without any acknowledgement to God? While theists acknowledge God... more Can humans have meaning in life without any acknowledgement to God? While theists acknowledge God for the meaning of human existence, naturalists believe that man can have meaning in life, if at all any meaning is there, without God. Perhaps there are human purposes, purposes to be found in life, and we can and do have them even in a Godless world, but without God there can be no one overarching purpose, no one basic scheme of existence, in virtue of which we could find a meaning for our grubby lives. An appropriate anthropology culminates in the right understanding of the meaning of life. Hence, plausibility of religious anthropology is established in various facets of human life such as origin, uniqueness, view and value of life, morality, and ultimate concern in this Paper which will demonstrate the falsification of naturalistic anthropology and the credibility of religious anthropology as navigating to the meaning of life.
Philosophers and psychologists have contemplated on the reason for human existence and brought fo... more Philosophers and psychologists have contemplated on the reason for human existence and brought forth their analysis in different forms such as theories, essays, novels and so forth. Each of them has his own set of logic to process the analysis of the given notion. Their personal experiences of life which compelled them to contemplate on purpose of human existence have significant role in their analysis. This article traces the contemplations on the meaning of life of some of the prominent philosophers and psychologists in the contemporary era which would depict the general idea of the contemporary secular response to the question of life's meaning.
The question whether life has any meaning is difficult to interpret. This is the big question-the... more The question whether life has any meaning is difficult to interpret. This is the big question-the hardest to answer, the most urgent and at the same time the most obscure. The more we concentrate our critical faculty on it the more it seems to elude us, or to evaporate as any intelligible question. For millennia, thinkers have addressed the question of what, if anything, makes a life meaningful in some form or other. The basic idea of the question of life's meaning is depicted, to rethink the age-old question again, in this article by tracing the right sense of the quest under the first title to avoid ambiguity and by presenting the significance of the question and basic categories of the answer.
The quest for a unifying world view is as old as humankind, and it is essential to find an adequa... more The quest for a unifying world view is as old as humankind, and it is essential to find an adequate foundation to guide humanity towards a right destiny. The idea of human inadequacy has two phases: mental and spiritual. Man is inadequate in attaining supernal knowledge, but this does not promote the agnostic conception, which denies the possibility of divine knowledge. Christian Theology believes in divine disclosure to attain such knowledge and denies the absolute denial of divine knowledge. The human mind is prone to forgetfulness of God, error, and the creation of fictitious religions, leading to finite human ability. Man's judgments are often based on empirical evidence and logic, while the existential quest for the meaning of life lies beyond this. Ultimately, man needs to be dependent on God to know eternal truth, understand the divine purpose of his existence, and recognize and spurn hollow and deceptive philosophies that will result in a fatal destiny.
A worldview or a philosophy of life is one’s sum of beliefs about world and existence. This set o... more A worldview or a philosophy of life is one’s sum of beliefs about world and existence. This set of beliefs answers the basic and ultimate questions of life according to the philosophy subscribed. The purpose of existence and hope of future derived from the worldview is the meaning of life. Every one of us subscribe to a worldview through which we understand and interpret the world, our existence, and destiny. Those who hold the Naturalistic view of life cling to the set of beliefs which is purely materialistic where there no room for the belief or the need for intervention of God in human life at any sphere. On the other hand, some hold on to the religious philosophy of life where the answers for the ultimate questions of life is derived from God Himself, and thus, the meaning of life itself is provided by God. While Naturalistic and Christian interpretations of life conflict with each other, this paper contemplates on the ultimate questions from both perspectives in order to assess their rationality and reliability.
Revelation is the supernal proclamation of Divine Reality and divine truths, which is the superna... more Revelation is the supernal proclamation of Divine Reality and divine truths, which is the supernatural initiative that permeates into the peculiar knowledge, for it is fashioned of supernatural truths, as the result of sovereign plan and purpose of its initiator, to humanity. Nowhere does the crisis of theology find a more critical center than in the controversy over the reality and nature of divine disclosure, because of the position of revelation as the postulate of the Christian realistic world-view. Therefore, our attention will be centered in this paper on the basic conception of revelation, especially its means, content, and nature, in Christian Theology.
Can humans have meaning in life without any acknowledgement to God? While theists acknowledge God... more Can humans have meaning in life without any acknowledgement to God? While theists acknowledge God for the meaning of human existence, naturalists believe that man can have meaning in life, if at all any meaning is there, without God. Perhaps there are human purposes, purposes to be found in life, and we can and do have them even in a Godless world, but without God there can be no one overarching purpose, no one basic scheme of existence, in virtue of which we could find a meaning for our grubby lives. An appropriate anthropology culminates in the right understanding of the meaning of life. Hence, plausibility of religious anthropology is established in various facets of human life such as origin, uniqueness, view and value of life, morality, and ultimate concern in this Paper which will demonstrate the falsification of naturalistic anthropology and the credibility of religious anthropology as navigating to the meaning of life.
Philosophers and psychologists have contemplated on the reason for human existence and brought fo... more Philosophers and psychologists have contemplated on the reason for human existence and brought forth their analysis in different forms such as theories, essays, novels and so forth. Each of them has his own set of logic to process the analysis of the given notion. Their personal experiences of life which compelled them to contemplate on purpose of human existence have significant role in their analysis. This article traces the contemplations on the meaning of life of some of the prominent philosophers and psychologists in the contemporary era which would depict the general idea of the contemporary secular response to the question of life's meaning.
The question whether life has any meaning is difficult to interpret. This is the big question-the... more The question whether life has any meaning is difficult to interpret. This is the big question-the hardest to answer, the most urgent and at the same time the most obscure. The more we concentrate our critical faculty on it the more it seems to elude us, or to evaporate as any intelligible question. For millennia, thinkers have addressed the question of what, if anything, makes a life meaningful in some form or other. The basic idea of the question of life's meaning is depicted, to rethink the age-old question again, in this article by tracing the right sense of the quest under the first title to avoid ambiguity and by presenting the significance of the question and basic categories of the answer.
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