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Theistic Worldview

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Theme God

Navajo Harmony Many gods

Islam Law One God

Buddhism CompassionNo personal God

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Nightway Chant:Whirling Logs

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Christianity Navajo Islam Buddhism

Ideal Love Harmony Law Compassion

View of God

One God,

Three Persons

Many Gods

One God No personal/individual

God

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Supremacy of Religion

Compatibilist Theories

Supremacy of Reason

Strong Version All morality is based on divine commands (Islamic shari’ah)

Reason and religion are iddenitcal in content (Hegel)

Ethics is based only on reason (agnostic or atheistic)

Weak Version Divine commands sometimes override ethics (Kierkegaard’s teleological suspension of the ethical)

Reason and religion may be different but do not contradict one another.(Aquinas)

Even God must follow dictates of reason.(Kant)

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• How can we know God’s will? Sacred texts? Which ones? Which tradition? What exactly is God’s will? Inner voice? Clergy? Community consensus? Natural events?

• God and the Criteria for the Divine: is something good because God wills it, or does God will it because it’s good?

• Human Autonomy: human moral life depends solely on God’s will. Omnipotence of God, no independent human reason or choice.

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