A contemporary scholar of Chinese philosophy wrote, “myths often contain an element of historical truth, and what passes for historical trut...

In the film,  Devil’s Advocate   (1997), human free-will plays a very important role. It has implications not only for whether humans tend t...

The Latin noun,  machina , can be translated as “machine, engine, military machine, contrivance, trick, or artifice.” The Latin word,  e , o...

In the film,  Wall-E   (2008), a robot “falls in love” with another, whose anthropomorphic pronoun is she/her rather than it as is fitting f...

On October 24, 2024, Pope Francis released his encyclical, Dilexit Nos (“He Loved Us), on the Sacred Heart of Jesus. In the letter, he reco...

Gertrud of Helfta (1256-1301) was a Christian nun whose sensitivity to mystical experience can be characterized as a bridal mysticism within...

In The Natural History of Religion , David Hume claims that the human mind has difficulty holding on to the pure (i.e., unencumbered) idea o...

A basic tenet of the Advaita (non-dualist) Hindu philosophy of Shankara holds, “If saguna points to brahman’s immanence, nirguna points to ...

The film narrative centers on Satan impregnating Rosemary, a married woman in New York City. According to Roman Polanski, the film’s direct...

The claim that God is real, or even that God's existence is reality, is problematic chiefly because it incurs the category mistake of t...

Transcendence beyond the limits of human cognition, and thus reason and even religious   beliefs  is notoriously difficult for the human mi...