Why are we here?
If one believes in God, what should one say is the answer to the question of why we are here? In this article, I hope to show that when we ask why we are here we ask several different questions at once and that Theism allows (indeed dictates) that these different questions have very different answer...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2022
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Religious studies
Year: 2022, Volume: 58, Issue: 4, Pages: 759-771 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Meaning of life
/ Providence
/ Theism
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RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism CB Christian life; spirituality |
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Theism
B Providence B Purpose B God |
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