Sentences with phrase «whiteheadian nontheists»

As Plantinga himself acknowledges, both theists — e.g., Leibniz — and nontheists — e.g., Mackie — maintain that

Unless we agree with those Whiteheadian nontheists that God's activity with the world is conceptually incoherent, we are left with only one alternative.

But as to whether his own nonreligious stance is compatible with SR, he says, «They try their best to make me feel welcome, but the ground rules aren't really designed to bring nontheists like me into the discussion.

In 1975 then - president Robert Nelson West could say: «Some are theists, some nontheists; some consider themselves Christians, others non-Christians.»

You are stating something very close to what I'd say as a nontheist.

So long as there are those who identify God with some one - sided abstraction like infinity; absoluteness, or worst of all omnipotence (not even a self - consistent abstraction), we shall need the help both of more balanced theists and of nontheists to counteract these more subtle and intellectual forms of idolatry.

The Secular Coalition for America said Stark responded in 2007 to an inquiry from that group by saying he was a «nontheist.»

It is a merit of modern existentialist thinkers, including nontheists like Martin Heidegger and Jean - Paul Sartre, that they understand and insist upon this truth about human nature.

Does it accurately represent the sentiments of nontheists in this country?

Alvin Plantinga, explaining the vehemence with which atheists like Dawkins use evolution as a weapon against theism, says that, «For the nontheist, evolution is the only game in town; it is an essential part of any reasonably complex nontheistic way of thinking...» (Plantinga 18 - 19).

I find it funny that people call this sign hateful towards religion but yet they can tell us nontheist how we are going to hell for not believing the way they do.

«But atheist, agnostic and humanist students suffer the same problems as religious students — deaths or illnesses in the family, questions about the meaning of life, etc. — and would like a sympathetic nontheist to talk to.»

Unlike Cox, who concludes that the theist and nontheist encounter the same reality but name it differently, I perceive a fundamental difference in the primordial experience of ultimate reality.

Plantinga plays «defense» because he is an adherent of a popular epistemic perspective — affirmed by many theists and nontheists alike — that maintains that defense is all that is required with respect to beliefs formed the way Plantinga contends that belief in God is formed for most «intellectually sophisticated adult theists» (FP 3: 312).

IF i may be allowed, i would also like to suggest a book for nontheists that offers advice for pluralism.

I'm a nontheist (borderline atheist) who is embracing Reform Judaism theologically and Conservative Judaism on a ritual level.

From LazarusL's answer, Charles T. Beaird used some convoluted arguments to declare himself «nontheist» rather than the more usual «atheist».

From his obituary, Charles T. Beaird «was a «nontheist,» meaning in simplistic terms that the concept of God was not among the ideas on which he based his beliefs — but that if you did, it was fine with him.»

There are ~ 6 - 12x more nontheists in USA than atheists (the former include agnostics, and arguably, undecideds).

The disproof of these models and the ongoing appeal by nontheists to more and more bizarre unknowns and unknowables seem to reflect the growing strength of the case for theism.