Existence and Knowledge

Existence and Knowledge

Semantics of God’s Activity in the Light of Philosophical Approach and Religious Knowledge

Document Type : Research Article

Author
PhD in Philosophy and Islamic Theology, Department of Philosophy, Mofid University, Qom, Iran.
Abstract
God’s relation to the world and its creatures has been a creative relationship, and He is agent and creator of possibility system. To explain how this activity is, popular theologians and philosophers have general disagreement over it. In the meantime, the other difference of opinion is seen too, that from one side we have philosophers’ views, and from the other side we face with some verses and traditions that show incompatibility; because contrary to the philosophers’ views that know God’s knowledge the only source of occurring action, in the Holy Quran sporadically, and in some traditions clearly have been regarded to this meaning that creating the creatures depends on passing steps and levels. The problem is that how can this multiplicity (if external) be compatible with rational principles manifesting special rank of God’s existence? In this writing we try to show that philosophical findings along with some religious teachings, eliminate this incompatibility.
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