Problems for Postfoundationalists: Evaluating J. Wentzel van Huyssteen’s Interdisciplinary Theory of Rationality

Reeves, Josh

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“…At the first, probability was just a useful way to reason about the world, as seen in new arguments for the existence of God. In the seventeenth century a new type of rationality emerged that abandoned the medieval ideals of obtaining certain knowledge (Gigerenzer et al , 7; Reeves , 142). The very idea of probable knowledge only appeared in the seventeenth century.…”

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The Secularization of Chance: Toward Understanding the Impact of the Probability Revolution on Christian Belief in Divine Providence

Reeves¹

2015

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This article gives a brief history of chance in the Christian tradition, from casting lots in the Hebrew Bible to the discovery of laws of chance in the modern period. I first discuss the deep‐seated skepticism towards chance in Christian thought, as shown in the work of Augustine, Aquinas, and Calvin. The article then describes the revolution in our understanding of chance—when contemporary concepts such as probability and risk emerged—that occurred a century after Calvin. The modern ability to quantify chance has transformed ideas about the universe and human nature, separating Christians today from their predecessors, but has received little attention by Christian historians and theologians.

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The Secularization of Chance: Toward Understanding the Impact of the Probability Revolution on Christian Belief in Divine Providence

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2015

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Virtualiteit in Dietrich Bonhoeffer se <i>Sanctorum Communio</i>: Kollektiewe intelligensie as nuwe epistemologie vir die kerk?

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2016

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Virtuality in Dietrich Bonhoeffers’ Sanctorum Communio: Collective intelligence as a new epistemology of the church? Collective intelligence has been indicated from biological, philosophical, anthropological and technological developments. The stygmergy principle serves to explain collective behaviour in nature such as with ants. An earlier form of collective intelligence is found in Leibniz’ Monadology. Today, collective intelligence emerges from the anthropological space of knowledge. This article argues that collective intelligence such as Wikipedia is based on a postfoundational epistemology and asks whether this can be seen as a new epistemology for the self and the other. With these insights as hermeneutical interface, Bonhoeffers’ ecclesiology in Sanctorum Communio is re-read, and it is argued that Bonhoeffers’ church concept as Christus als Gemeinde existierend collectively might serve as a new epistemology for the church.

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Post-foundational theology and the contribution of African approaches to consciousness and identity

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2021

Verbum et Ecclesia

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How do we know who we are? What sources can we draw upon in order to explain and understand the complex notions of identity and consciousness? This article revisits this debate and argues that African approaches the consciousness and identity cohere with Wentzel van Huyssteen's post-foundational theology. Post-foundational theology offers a transverse rationality that operates between explanatory power and truth. The impetus for the research that informs this article emerged from a conversation with Prof. Van Huyssteen in 2000. The conversation set the author on a path of exploration which led to the discovery of the richness of African religious, philosophical and social resources on identity and consciousness. The outcome was an integrated approach to identity known as a 'generous ontology' that draws upon subjective, objective, inter-subjective and inter-objective sources of knowledge. The article concludes that an African approach to consciousness, as a post-foundational theological contribution, helps us to offer clear explanations and deeper truths in relation to our understanding of identity and consciousness. Intradisciplinary and or interdisciplinary implications:This article presents a postfoundationalist argument for the inclusion of African theological notions of identity and consciousness in the debates of this field that take place at the intersections of faith and science. The outcome textures our explanations and deepens our understandings of transdisciplinary approaches to identity and consciousness.

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Problems for Postfoundationalists: Evaluating J. Wentzel van Huyssteen’s Interdisciplinary Theory of Rationality

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The Secularization of Chance: Toward Understanding the Impact of the Probability Revolution on Christian Belief in Divine Providence

The Secularization of Chance: Toward Understanding the Impact of the Probability Revolution on Christian Belief in Divine Providence

Virtualiteit in Dietrich Bonhoeffer se <i>Sanctorum Communio</i>: Kollektiewe intelligensie as nuwe epistemologie vir die kerk?

Post-foundational theology and the contribution of African approaches to consciousness and identity

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