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Rethinking Monotheism: Some Comparisons between the Igala Religion and Christianity 对一神教的再思考:伊加拉宗教与基督教的比较

Filosofia Theoretica Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v11i1.11

Pao-Shen Ho

引用次数: 1

Bewaji and Fayemi On God, Omnipotence and Evil 贝瓦吉和法耶米论上帝、全能和邪恶

Filosofia Theoretica Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v11i1.4

A. Agadá

引用次数: 6

The Question of the Nature of God from the African Place 从非洲地区看上帝的本质问题

Filosofia Theoretica Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v11i1.8

L. Ogbonnaya

引用次数: 6

Redefining the Problem of Evil in the Context of a Predeterministic World: New Conversations with the Traditional African Worldview 在预先决定论的世界背景下重新定义邪恶问题:与传统非洲世界观的新对话

Filosofia Theoretica Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v11i1.2

A. D. Attoe

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引用次数: 4

Relating to the Whole Community in Akan and East Asian Ancestral Traditions 关于阿坎和东亚祖先传统的整个社区

Filosofia Theoretica Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v11i1.12

N. Thurston

引用次数: 2

Why the Problem of Evil Might not be a Problem after all in African Philosophy of Religion 为什么邪恶的问题在非洲宗教哲学中可能根本不是一个问题

Filosofia Theoretica Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v11i1.3

A. E. Chimakonam

引用次数: 5

Comparing Concepts of God: Translating God in the Chinese and Yoruba Religious Contexts 上帝概念的比较:上帝在中国和约鲁巴宗教语境中的翻译

Filosofia Theoretica Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v11i1.10

G.U. Rouyan

引用次数: 2

Divinities and Ancestors: A Preliminary Comparison between African and Confucian Cosmologies 神与祖先:非洲与儒家宇宙观的初步比较

Filosofia Theoretica Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v11i1.14

J. Hu

引用次数: 1

Indigenous African Religions (IARs) and the Relational Value of Tolerance: Addressing the evil of violent conflicts in Africa 非洲土著宗教(IARs)和宽容的相关价值:解决非洲暴力冲突的罪恶

Filosofia Theoretica Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v11i1.7

J. Chimakonam

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引用次数: 0

Augustine, Ancestors and the Problem of Evil: African Religions, the Donatists, and the African Manichees 奥古斯丁，《祖先与邪恶的问题:非洲宗教、多纳图派和非洲摩尼教》

Filosofia Theoretica Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI: 10.4314/ft.v11i1.9

Wei Hua

引用次数: 1