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The Machine in the Ghost: Transhumanism and the Ontology of Information (2023)
Journal Article
Burdett, M., & Leung, K. H. (2023). The Machine in the Ghost: Transhumanism and the Ontology of Information. Zygon, 58(3), 714-731. https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12886

An ontology of information belies our common intuitions about reality today and animates and governs both explicit scholarly study in philosophy and the sciences as well as the ideologies that are growing out of them. Transhumanism is one such techno... Read More about The Machine in the Ghost: Transhumanism and the Ontology of Information.

God Spatially Above and Spatially Extended: The Rationality of Ibn Taymiyya's Refutation of Far al-Dīn al-Rāzī's Ašarī Incorporealism (2022)
Journal Article
Hoover, J. (2023). God Spatially Above and Spatially Extended: The Rationality of Ibn Taymiyya's Refutation of Far al-Dīn al-Rāzī's Ašarī Incorporealism. Arabica, 69(6), 626-674. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700585-12341641

Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) wrote his tome Bayān talbīs al-ǧahmiyya to refute Ašarī kalām theologian Far al-Dīn al-Rāzī's (d. 606/1210) argument in Tasīs al-taqdīs that God is not corporeal, located, or spatially extended. Bayān talbīs al-ǧahmiyya is... Read More about God Spatially Above and Spatially Extended: The Rationality of Ibn Taymiyya's Refutation of Far al-Dīn al-Rāzī's Ašarī Incorporealism.

Economy of Grace and the Infinite Circle: A Theological Reception of the Social Evolutionary Origins of Gratitude (2022)
Journal Article
Burdett, M., & Burdett, E. (2122). Economy of Grace and the Infinite Circle: A Theological Reception of the Social Evolutionary Origins of Gratitude. Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences, 9(1), 119-135. https://doi.org/10.1628/ptsc-2022-0009

This article considers the social evolutionary research on gratitude and reciprocity and focuses on two mechanisms, upstream reciprocity and increased gratitude to strangers, that have strong consonance with various theological accounts of gift-givin... Read More about Economy of Grace and the Infinite Circle: A Theological Reception of the Social Evolutionary Origins of Gratitude.

E Open Access THE EVOLUTION OF HOMO LUDENS: SEXUAL SELECTION AND A THEOLOGY OF PLAY (2022)
Journal Article
Loumagne Ulishney, M. (2022). E Open Access THE EVOLUTION OF HOMO LUDENS: SEXUAL SELECTION AND A THEOLOGY OF PLAY. Zygon, 57(3), 564-575. https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12802

This essay argues that reflection on sexual selection can be theologically generative, and that it presents needed counteremphases to some of the discussions about theological anthropology that have been fueled by theological reflection on natural se... Read More about E Open Access THE EVOLUTION OF HOMO LUDENS: SEXUAL SELECTION AND A THEOLOGY OF PLAY.

Shīʿī Readings of Human Evolution: Ṭabāṭabāʾī to Ḥaydarī (2022)
Journal Article
Kocsenda, K. G. (2022). Shīʿī Readings of Human Evolution: Ṭabāṭabāʾī to Ḥaydarī. Zygon, 57(2), 418-442. https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12781

Within the context of Islamic discourse about evolution, this is the first study that focuses exclusively on the views of Kamāl al-Ḥaydarī (b. 1957), a prominent Shīʿī thinker of the contemporary period. Ḥaydarī develops his views from Muḥammad Ḥusay... Read More about Shīʿī Readings of Human Evolution: Ṭabāṭabāʾī to Ḥaydarī.

Law, Justice, and Grace: Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) on the Gospel's Relation to the Torah (2022)
Journal Article
Hoover, J. (2022). Law, Justice, and Grace: Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) on the Gospel's Relation to the Torah. Entangled Religions, 13(2), https://doi.org/10.46586/er.13.2022.9466

Early and medieval Muslim anti-Christian polemicists do not present a uniform account of the Gospel's relation to the Torah, and polemical concerns drive the positions they adopt. This article focuses on how Damascene theologian Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328... Read More about Law, Justice, and Grace: Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) on the Gospel's Relation to the Torah.

Rethinking the Didache’s evidence for eucharistic practices in the light of the diversity of practice witnessed in Luke 22:17-20 (2021)
Book Chapter
O'Loughlin, T. (2021). Rethinking the Didache’s evidence for eucharistic practices in the light of the diversity of practice witnessed in Luke 22:17-20. In Papers presented at the Eighteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2019. Volume 22: Liturgica, Tractatus symboli; Orientalia; Critica et Philologica (31-38). Peeters

If our paradigm of the early churches is one of variety in practice preceding uniform ‘accepted’ forms, then we need to look again at many instances where early evidence for practice was by-passed as aberrant or sectarian. The sequence of eucharistic... Read More about Rethinking the Didache’s evidence for eucharistic practices in the light of the diversity of practice witnessed in Luke 22:17-20.

Religion and Worldviews: The Way Forward? Considerations from the study of religion, non-religion and classroom practice (2021)
Journal Article
Hutchings, T., Benoit, C., & Shillitoe, R. (2021). Religion and Worldviews: The Way Forward? Considerations from the study of religion, non-religion and classroom practice. Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions, 23, 8-28. https://doi.org/10.18792/jbasr.v23i0.54

This article builds on Worldview-A Multidisciplinary Report (Benoit, Hutchings and Shillitoe, 2020), a publication commissioned by the RE Council of England and Wales to outline the academic history of the study of worldviews. We focus on three parti... Read More about Religion and Worldviews: The Way Forward? Considerations from the study of religion, non-religion and classroom practice.