Word: theism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...congregations to discuss what it should do. Based on responses from 260 churches, Jones' Committee on Purposes and Principles proposed to last week's assembly in Vancouver that the reference to God be replaced with a statement that the churches "reflect various forms of Theism, Christianity, Humanism, Feminism and other religious traditions." A study paper explained that "the origins of feminist theology may be found in the Fertile Crescent, Egypt, India, China, Greece-wherever female deities were honored." While elevating feminism to the status of a new brand of faith, the committee dropped any reference to another religion...
True science never overlooks any possibilities. The attempt by the American Civil Liberties Union to rule out theism as a valid hypothesis for the creation of the universe is about as unscientific...
Philosophers refurbish the tools of reason to sharpen arguments for theism...
Though still a distinct minority in secular universities, some philosophers are not only willing to talk about God but to believe in him. In the U.S., 300 of them belong to the Society for Christian Philosophy. Some scholars are attacking atheism and reviving and refining arguments for theism that have been largely unfashionable since the Enlightenment, using modern techniques of analytic philosophy and symbolic logic that were once used to discredit belief...