{"title":"Religion, fiction, and facts","authors":"Timo Koistinen","doi":"10.1080/0039338x.2023.2264266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0039338x.2023.2264266","url":null,"abstract":"Religious fictionalism is a philosophical theory that aims to provide an alternative to the metaphysically realistic (theistic or God-centred) view of the nature of religious discourse. Religious fictionalism argues that being an atheist is compatible with a certain kind of personal religiousness because it is possible to understand traditional religious discourse as a useful fiction. In the first part of my presentation, I will outline the central ideas of religious fictionalism. After that, I highlight some key problems associated with it. These have to do with the “make-believe” attitude of the fictionalist account of faith and the problems linked with personal integrity. In the last part of the article, I will turn to metaphysical and epistemic presuppositions that play a central role in religious fictionalism. I will deal with these issues in the light of Bas van Fraassen’s empiricist views on science, secularism and religion.","PeriodicalId":41136,"journal":{"name":"Studia Theologica-Nordic Journal of Theology","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135350791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Communio ecclesiarum. The Catholicity of the Church in Light of the Synodal Transformation of the Church","authors":"J. Mikulášek","doi":"10.5507/sth.2023.021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5507/sth.2023.021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41136,"journal":{"name":"Studia Theologica-Nordic Journal of Theology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45810926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Love of Christ and His Death for All in 2 Cor 5:14","authors":"P. Mareček","doi":"10.5507/sth.2023.025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5507/sth.2023.025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41136,"journal":{"name":"Studia Theologica-Nordic Journal of Theology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46135595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Struggle for Man: Czech Catholic Journalism in the Years 1945‒1948 Between Marxism and Liberalism","authors":"P. Macek","doi":"10.5507/sth.2023.034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5507/sth.2023.034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41136,"journal":{"name":"Studia Theologica-Nordic Journal of Theology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48068255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Friendship in the Correspondence of Alcuin of York","authors":"Martin Senk","doi":"10.5507/sth.2023.029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5507/sth.2023.029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41136,"journal":{"name":"Studia Theologica-Nordic Journal of Theology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48410253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Souček's Foolishness of the Cross and Today's Theology of Paradox","authors":"Jaroslav Vokoun","doi":"10.5507/sth.2023.024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5507/sth.2023.024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41136,"journal":{"name":"Studia Theologica-Nordic Journal of Theology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47407966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Pastoral Activities of Archbishop Jakob Ernst von Lichtenstein-Castelcorno (1690‒1747)","authors":"Josef Faltičko","doi":"10.5507/sth.2023.026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5507/sth.2023.026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41136,"journal":{"name":"Studia Theologica-Nordic Journal of Theology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41652291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theological-anthropological Aspects of the Pastoral Care of People Suffering from Dementia","authors":"Helena Machulová, T. Machula","doi":"10.5507/sth.2023.032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5507/sth.2023.032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41136,"journal":{"name":"Studia Theologica-Nordic Journal of Theology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47765807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"The Sight of Them Was Terrible, Hairy in Face, and with Stamens on Their Heads, Like the Mercenaries Who Crucified Christ the Lord.\" Faith and Confession in the War of 1866.","authors":"Vojtěch Kessler, J. Sramek","doi":"10.5507/sth.2023.019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5507/sth.2023.019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41136,"journal":{"name":"Studia Theologica-Nordic Journal of Theology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44296800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}