Paul Weingartner Livres

Focusing on the significant Marian Apparitions such as Guadalupe, Lourdes, and Fatima, this book employs an axiomatic method to analyze these miraculous events. It details the credibility of the apparitions, the reliability of the seers, and the believers' voluntary engagement, while deriving theorems from foundational axioms. Additionally, it compares these prophetic manifestations with Christian Revelation, ultimately asserting that the divine origin of Mary's messages to humanity is rooted in God.

The book presents a rigorous argument against the claim that God's omniscience, omnipotence, and benevolence are incompatible with the existence of evil. It identifies logical fallacies and false assumptions underlying such claims, while systematically defining God's attributes and categorizing ten types of evil within an axiomatic framework. The author develops theorems regarding God's knowledge, will, and benevolence, ultimately demonstrating their compatibility with evil through a consistency proof supported by a model that satisfies all axioms and theorems.

The exploration of credibility in scientific and religious belief systems reveals that humanity possesses an inherent understanding of a higher power and moral obligations. Weingartner rigorously analyzes concepts like natural goods, moral law, and conscience, emphasizing that while all belief systems have credibility limits, different standards apply to science and religion. The text addresses consistency, refutation, and the interplay between religion and evolution, culminating in a comparison of five major world religions. It concludes by outlining the reciprocal credibility requirements between science and religion.

This book explores the concept of omniscience, addressing fundamental questions and presenting an axiomatic theory. It examines whether God's knowledge is absolute, timeless, and inclusive of singular truths and future events. The text aims to establish a coherent understanding of omniscience while challenging opposing views.

The aim of the book is to show that the Five Ways of Thomas Aquinas, i.e. his five arguments to prove the existence of God, are logically correct arguments by the standards of modern Predicate Logic. In the first chapter this is done by commenting on the two preliminary articles preceeding the Five Ways in which Thomas Aquinas points out that on the one hand the existence of God is not self-evident to us and on the other hand, that, similar as in some scientific explanations, the mere existence of a cause for an effect which is evidently known to us can be proved. In the second chapter every argument is translated into the symbolic form of Predicate Logic and its logical validity is shown. Additionally a detailed and critical discussion of the premises of each argument is given.

The book defends that there is both teleological order (design) and chance in non-living and in living systems; and that the different types of order, teleological order and chance are compatible not only with God's providence, but also with man

The present book is a book on epistemology with the special and new focus on the relation of different types of knowledge and a differentiated comparison to both scientific and religious belief. The present book distinguishes seven types of knowledge and compares them with both scientific and religious belief. The ususal view is that scientific and religious belief have nothing or not much in common. Although there are important differences, in contradistinction to this widespread view it is shown that there are also many similarities between them. There are similarities concerning the reasons for belief, with respect to the action of believing, concerning a similar voluntary component, or even concerning properties of the content of belief. A detailed discussion of many types of knowledge and a differentiated comparison to scientific and religious belief is an important new contribution to the scientific literature in epistemology.

Der Sinn des internationalen Symposiums, dessen Beiträge in diesem Band gesammelt sind, war die Behandlung des Themas Übel aus interdisziplinärer Sicht. Beginnend mit dem Kosmos als Förderer und Zerstörer des Lebens fährt die Betrachtung mit Biologie (Genetic Load) und einer Kritik am sogenannten Bösen (Konrad Lorenz) fort. Weitere Themen sind das Leiden der Kreatur einerseits und die positive Seite des Schmerzes für das Lernen und Überleben andererseits. Die philosophischen und theologischen Fragen werden eingeleitet durch eine logische Analyse der verschiedenen Arten von Übel und fortgesetzt mit Schuld als Übel und Beiträgen zum Theodizeeproblem, insbesondere auch zu John Hicks soul making Theorie der Theodizee.

Der Band enthält internationale Kommentare und Diskussionen zum Thema Glaube und Vernunft im Allgemeinen und speziell zur Enzyklika Fides et Ratio von Papst Johannes Paul II. Der erste Teil behandelt das Thema von der Philosophie her. Eingehend diskutierte Fragen sind: Rationalität und ihre Missbräuche, die metaphysische Dimension der Wahrheitserkenntnis, Glauben im Zusammenhang mit dem Sinn des Lebens, gegenseitige Verträglichkeit und Ergänzung von Glaube und Wissen, das Verhältnis der Philosophie zur Heiligen Schrift und der Philosophie als Vorstudium der Theologie. Der zweite Teil behandelt das Thema von der Theologie her mit Beiträgen über das Verhältnis von philosophisch-religiösen Wahrheiten zur geoffenbarten Wahrheit, über die erfahrungsmäßige Überprüfung theologischer Aussagen anhand biblischer Beispiele, über Kreuzestheologie und den Zusammenhang zwischen christlichem Glauben und Ethik.