“THE RISE OF urban civilization and the collapse of traditional religion are two main hallmarks of our era and are closely related movements. Urbanization constitutes a massive change in the way men live together; and become possible in its contemporary form only with the scientific and technological
Advances which sprang from the wreckage of traditional views. It is good to start this introduction by using the concept on the article “Images of God.” This is because it will help the researcher to understand what God or who God is. Instead of going immediately to the different field of looking God, understanding God, and the way on how to approach God in his contemporary time, the question now here is that, what language can be used in dealing with the nature the God? Does the traditional way of understanding God is still appropriate in today’s contemporary time? In this article “the images of God” deals to the popular culture on how they look God and go beyond to the different point of view of looking the existence of God.
When man will go beyond to the reality of his existence in dealing with God’s cultures probably there were a lot influenced to those who belong to their teachings, especially in looking God in different perspectives. However, I think the concept that I have seen in the article “Images of God” Precisely the idea that the post modern way of presenting. Do we still see God as something transcendental, or we need to look God the same like us human or just to understand God for what language of today’s contemporary world is using. What the Researcher have had seen here, understanding God is not only to limit our self to the traditional way of Presenting God as something transcendence, but the question is do the language that was in the Metaphysics will lead the contemporary people to understand God? Especially in our present time, this is to say that man need to transcend by using post modern language. Furthermore, the new war of looking at God then will lead us to the awareness of the massive influences of modernity in every culture and to the individual. This is then, what the post modern want to imposed, that man need to understand God by in his present time. And this is the invitation by the post Modern though man has a new way of understanding God and looking at God it might in a different we need not to set aside our traditional way of understanding God. Because, it will help man to become more critical in knowing the very nature or essence of God in his present time; but the important here is though we see God in different perspective; we still believed into something that his existence is real and we may call him divine or God that man needed to stand onto it
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Starting with the epistemic inquiry into the nature of faith we have been led to broaden our treatment into the attitude if the believers, man’s attentiveness to his experience points out to him his finitude as well as the transcendence of Being that sustain him. Prototypical gestures that mark him as man demand a religious interpretation of reality for this vindication and validity. Finally the choice that faces man when confronted with the possibilities, but between hope and despair, meaning and meaninglessness, purpose and purposelessness, Being and non being. Looking at the reality of a religious man is rational and intelligent; religion is man’s response to the fundamental questions that man have always asked themselves, questions without it would be difficult to conceive being human. The existence of God can be found on the man itself who belong to his own religion, as we all know that region it is true is man’s choice, but there is reason. To recognized in it man’s response to the hidden God who calls to him from the silent harmony of the spheres, all that man have done present to future, was tracing the itinerary of each soul that has really known God. Man have merely sketched in a more thematic and systematic manner the journal of the religious heart. It is nothing more than a prosaic rendition of the ancient prayer of the Upanishads which is nice also to quote. Lead me from unreal to the real; lead me from darkness to light lead me from death to immortality. (Upanishad)
In the philosophy of God, man need to become more critical in proving the existence of God, man must not only depend on the prejudices that he has in his culture, man must go out to the idea of the others in order for him to have a greater understanding on God, that it means that man must always interpret his reality as a man. And reasoning out his being in existence, because the existence of God depending on the man itself. He is the answer for everything. The affirmation of God then is made through the acceptance on a man itself. Therefore the existence of God can only be proved on the individual interpretation where faith can be found.
How can one Communicate with God? It is not through ordinary speech, because in the realm of divine economy it can be a handicap. The advantage of the human being over the animal is the ability to speak, but, in relation to God, wanting to speak can become the corruption of the human being, who is able to speak, what the human being knows is idle chatter, therefore they can hardly converse. Hence, how? It is by becoming silent like the lily and the bird, the masters of silence. Speech, then, is the human being’s advantage over the other creatures, it’s true, but only if he learns how to become silent.
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This question was an attempt at establishing a coherent presentation of the philosophy of God, what is the way for man to understand the totality of God? This venture has taken us through the peculiarities and emphases of the different theorist but has also allowed us to see that the religion is not an impenetrable mystery, esoteric as its manifestation, maybe, but an intelligible act of man. God then is beyond the human capacity to think and reasoning out.
God is present to the believers, almost immediately; the ambiguity of concept of presence hinders further discussion. The concept of “mediated awareness” however has proven to be helpful. The believer does not infer; he experiences the presence of God by interpreting his natural and human environments religiously. Epistemologically, therefore, it is interpretation that accounts for faith as for the physical objects and recognition of ethical obligations. It is interpretation; moreover, without, which man cannot live as man lives, he structures his world and his relations with others and with the world. The ordering that characterizes the cosmos of human existence is human ordering. The interpretative acts of man then are cosmos-constituting acts. Continue reading ‘Does the issue concerning the Existence of God is beyond Reason?’
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Does God exist?
A creditable and voluminous treatise, with examining the possibility, of a contemporary theistic attitude, in other words, it proposes the affirmation of God with the context of total human experience. It is not the logical demonstration of the existence of a metaphysical principle demanded for the coherence of a metaphysical position; neither is it an abandoning of rationality by a flight into wordless mystics. It moves from lived experience of human contingency and need towards the affirmation of God who alone can truly be the answer not only to the questions man has, but to the basic question that he is. If God existed, there would be for man the possibility of a liberating transcendence, one that does not begin and end with the world itself but in its otherness truly liberates. The existence of God would then also render the eternal longing of man significant, not longing for nothing. Man’s being is itself the pure desire to know. If God would exist, there would be a radical solution to the mystery of reality. If God would exist, then, the chance evolution of the human species out of a million matters would be understandable. Continue reading ‘Does God exist?’
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Some man and even the researcher believe that culture defines as that which reason, essential reason, produces. But man also treats culture imbued with religious significance, “Religion is the substance of culture, culture the form of religion.” Culture being a product of reason, thus assumes a fully “theological” implication. Man need to understand that there is a theological element in all thinking, hence a mystical apriori. All the culture does and has done presuppose the religious substance. All thought and praxis then are theonomous; this means dependent on a religious substance which expressed in all through science, philosophy, literature, art and the praxis of culture. Hence, culture, being praxis of reason, is grounded in the religious substance. How does God who is being-itself manifest himself in culture? The being itself in culture is structured symbolically through the practice or used of myth and enacted communally through the practice of cult. Again, man’s religion is substance of culture, culture the form of mans’ religions. In effect, the researcher wants to quote Tillich, where ones it was discuss on his subject on philosophy of religion, for Tillich the modern secular situation is a misunderstanding of both human being and culture. And this view of culture reverses the view of some philosophers, thinks that religion is merely a product of culture. Therefore, the existence of God is only a product of man. Man who created God it is not God who created man, this is because, man wants to have someone a perfect model, a model that will guide him in times of his difficulties. God then man then, created God, in order for him to have a focus in life. God is an illusion then, but it become real in mans, interpretation.
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As I ponder and react on it in the light of these requirements of the common good, we deplore attempt by public authorities to block access to information on the internet or in other media of social communication, because they find it threatening or embarrassing to them, to manipulate the public by propaganda and disinformation, Continue reading ‘MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE BENEDICT XVI FOR THE 44th WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY “The Priest and Pastoral Ministry in a Digital World: New Media at the Service of the Word”’
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Privacy and Piracy
The highway was full of pornographic pictures in the billboards and somebody with a can of spray paint was fuming mad. “pornography sucks” read the graffiti on numerous movie billboards where nakeds bodies were exposed. “it destroy the moral fiber to our youth, same true with the internet, that is why, regulation of the internet and the to the public, is desirable, and in principle industries try self-regulation is best. “the solution to the problems arising from unregulated commercialization and privatization does not lie in state control of media but in more regulation according to criteria of public service and in greater public accountability.
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Chapter 20- Media Violence
An ethical dilemma in media ia a situation that often involves an apparent conflict between moral values, in which the media practitioner’s selected solution would disregard another course of action. An ethical dilemma in moral philosophy plays a central role in ethics learning debates. since a dilemma deals with two right choices, these choices should be clearly stated. then the dilemma cam move to a solution, where one of the right choices is preferred over the other one. The case is read and its problematic situation analyzed. Media practitioner are confronted with situation that ask” what is the right thing to do? to deal with ethical dilemmas, the media person needs to find the answers to these questions: can you say where the actual problimatic situation lies? what are the two choices involved? Is it really a choice of one and the necessary rejection of the others? What moral values and principles are at stake in the dilemma?
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Media has a great influence on sports; specially on the professional sports that have become more exciting and entertaining to the general views, ones the past several decades . but bare in mind that there3 is also a great negative impact of the media influence on sports. especially in morality and values to the person itself.
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Introduction
“THE RISE OF urban civilization and the collapse of traditional religion are two main hallmarks of our era and are closely related movements. Urbanization constitutes a massive change in the way men live together; and become possible in its contemporary form only with the scientific and technological
Advances which sprang from the wreckage of traditional views. It is good to start this introduction by using the concept on the article “Images of God.” This is because it will help the researcher to understand what God or who God is. Instead of going immediately to the different field of looking God, understanding God, and the way on how to approach God in his contemporary time, the question now here is that what language can be used in dealing with the nature the God? Does the traditional way of understanding God is still appropriate in today’s contemporary time? In this article “the images of God” is deals to the popular culture on how they look God and go beyond to the different point of view of looking the existence of God. Continue reading ‘What is the Possible Way of Looking at God?’
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