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5Evolutionary Explanations of Pain and SufferingScientia et Fides 12 (1): 89-105. 2024.Evolutionary studies have provided several explanations about how pain and suffering can be fitted into that framework, which tries to make sense of every biological and human feature in terms of evolution, survival, and fitness. These explanations point usually to how such apparently negative aspects become useful and contribute to an evolution that after all has delivered good outcomes. Such an approach might eventually render the theodicy question less sharp and critical for believers who are…Read more
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6What eschatology fits our socio‐cultural conditions better? An exercise in theology ‘from below’Heythrop Journal 65 (2): 190-206. 2024.Eschatological beliefs have matured alongside both biblical composition and Christian history. This evolution can be traced using cultural evolutionary studies. The process reflects attempts to adapt to new conditions and challenges—sometimes giving place to more focused views, but also sometimes to failures and dysfunctional forms or fruitless variations. It becomes a theological duty to assess this evolution better. The key element is the reception of these eschatological beliefs, to discern w…Read more
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3Anthropology, Christian and Scientific – Concurrence or Convergence?Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences 8 (2): 147. 2021.
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Legitimidad sociológica del cristianismo como religión en el ambiente contemporáneoSalmanticensis 42 (3): 341-367. 1995.
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3Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions (edited book)Springer. 2013."To all who love the God with a 1000 names and respect science” In the last quarter century, the academic field of Science and Theology (Religion) has attracted scholars from a wide variety of disciplines. The question is, which disciplines are attracted and what do these disciplines have to contribute to the debate? In order to answer this question, the encyclopedia maps the (self)-identified disciplines and religious traditions that participate or might come to participate in the Science and R…Read more
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2Legitimidad sociológica del cristianismo como religión en el ambiente contemporáneoSalmanticensis 42 (3): 341-367. 1995.
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4El nuevo radicalismo teológico ante el panorama cultural contemporáneoSalmanticensis 2 301-328. 2006.
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3La dimensión eclesial de la teología. Un enfoque InterdisciplinarSalmanticensis 48 (3): 487-520. 2001.
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16Processes of Believing: The Acquisition, Maintenance, and Change in Creditions (edited book)Imprint: Springer. 2017.This volume answers the question: Why do we believe what we believe? It examines current research on the concept of beliefs, and the development in our understanding of the process of believing. It takes into account empirical findings in the field of neuroscience regarding the processes that underlie beliefs, and discusses the notion that beyond the interactive exploratory analysis of sensory information from the complex outside world, humans engage in an evaluative analysis by which they attri…Read more
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37Artificial Intelligence and Theology: Looking for a Positive—but Not Uncritical—ReceptionZygon 57 (4): 938-952. 2022.Theology and other human sciences present concerns against artificial intelligence (AI) that are often limited to ethical issues, as they appear as the most pressing problems and challenges derived from these new technologies. However, by reviewing the published literature, the article shows that theologians have ventured into broader areas, with a specific focus on the anthropological consequences of current technological advances. New developments and achievements in AI invite further explorat…Read more
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2The Missing Piece in Sustainability Indices: Accounting for the Human FactorSustainability 13 (21). 2021.Sustainability is the result of a complex combination of factors. Social, cultural and personal elements are key for the pursuit of a sustainable future. Beyond the existing, very broad program on sustainability studies, additional research should contribute to specify how those social and human factors affect sustainability indices. General beliefs, values, attitudes, habits, assumed lifestyles or even meaning systems projecting purpose on one’s own life have an impact on sustainability as well…Read more
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426Can AI Help Us to Understand Belief? Sources, Advances, Limits, and Future DirectionsInternational Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence 7 (1): 24-33. 2021.The study of belief is expanding and involves a growing set of disciplines and research areas. These research programs attempt to shed light on the process of believing, understood as a central human cognitive function. Computational systems and, in particular, what we commonly understand as Artificial Intelligence (AI), can provide some insights on how beliefs work as either a linear process or as a complex system. However, the computational approach has undergone some scrutiny, in particular a…Read more
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7Why does the multidisciplinary study of beliefs and believing matter so much?Frontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.
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10La teología ante el transhumanismoPensamiento. Revista de Investigación E Información Filosófica 78 (298 S. Esp): 515-522. 2022.En este escrito están en juego dos modelos teológicos: uno está más en sintonía con las teologías de la encarnación que identifican todo lo que es bueno como relacionado con Dios o que participa de lo divino; el otro está arraigado en una teología de la redención y siente que la mayoría de las realidades humanas y sociales están corrompidas y necesitan ser rescatadas y restauradas, de forma sólo sobrenatural. La dualidad descrita justifica un pluralismo inevitable y un discernimiento que no se p…Read more
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22Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters. By Steven Pinker. London: Allen Lane, 2021. 412 pages. $21.24. (Paperback) (review)Zygon 57 (2): 514-516. 2022.Zygon®, Volume 57, Issue 2, Page 514-516, June 2022.
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5Fundamental Theology at the Crossroads: Challenges and Alternatives After a Long MaturationScientia et Fides 10 (1): 49-71. 2022.Fundamental Theology has undergone a slow evolution, as many other theological disciplines, since its inception in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council. The lapsed time invites us to reflect about the current situation in this field and to what extent that theological section is pursuing its main objectives, especially for its teaching at different levels. After examining several issues that could have influenced that development, some suggestions for advancing the field and its teaching …Read more
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11Should We Say That the Second Vatican Council has Failed?Heythrop Journal 49 (5): 716-730. 2008.Forty years after the end of the Second Vatican Council, contrasting opinions dispute the range of its reception and its real effects as the Catholic Church struggles in a changing world of secularization and pluralism. The present paper tries to throw new light on the historical significance of that event, mobilizing different methods and applying some new ‘hermeneutical lenses’. Four topics will serve for this task: the ‘neo‐Enlightened’ mood that affected a fair amount of its reception; the e…Read more
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13Religion and the Philosophy of Life. By GavinFlood. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 464 pages. $50.00. (Hardback) (review)Zygon 56 (2): 533-536. 2021.Zygon®, EarlyView.
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1331Rise of Pilgrims on the Camino to Santiago: Sign of Change or Religious Revival?Religious Studies Review 56 (3): 433-442. 2014.There is a renewed interest amongst scholars in the practice of pil- grimage. Over the past two decades, pilgrim numbers have risen significantly, whilst forms of ''implicit'' or ''alternative'' spirituality have gained visibility and now coexist with organised religions, sometimes sharing the same ritualistic space. There is probably no better place to look at the coexistence of old and new forms of ritual expression than in the Camino to Santiago. To better understand the meanings attributed …Read more
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44The interaction between religion and science in catholic southern europeZygon 50 (1): 172-193. 2015.Reviewing the last fifty years of interaction between religion and science in Catholicism in Southern Europe, common traits are clearly evident: a late awareness of the importance of this interaction and a theological reluctance to address science or to account for its progress. Early signs of the engagement between religion and science appear as a consequence of the work of the French anthropologist and theologian Teilhard de Chardin. In Italy and Spain in the last fifteen years, we see a subst…Read more
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3Religion for a Spatial Colony: Raising the Right QuestionsIn Konrad Szocik (ed.), The Human Factor in a Mission to Mars: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Springer. 2019.The possible scenario of a future human settlement on Mars invites reflection regarding the hypothetical conditions within which one could explore religion’s possible role. The issue is what might religion’s role be living a such a remote place and how religion might help to cope with extreme circumstances. The first question has to do with religious faith. The second has to do with what kind of religion or religious style would be more fitting in that highly unpredictable and threatening contex…Read more
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160Steps toward a cognitive science of religionZygon 43 (2): 385-393. 2008.The article chronicles the different panels devoted tothe cognitive science of religion at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) in Tampa, Florida, in November 2007. The aim is to verify the state of this subdiscipline and to check how much this work-in-progress affects the present state of the dialogue between science and religion. Several signs point to a positive development in this scientific branch and favor a sound reception in theology, which should not ig…Read more
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Por una recuperación de la dimensión apologética en la teología fundamentalGregorianum 90 (2): 254-273. 2009.In view of the decline of apologetics as a theological genre and Benedict XVI's repeated invitation to a deeper engagement in a dialogue of faith and reason, we claim a return to this style in fundamental theology, starting from a review of the historical process leading to its abandonment, then its relevance for other theological areas, to those tasks that should not be disregarded. We suggest methods and directions for renewing its style and content, also in the academic curriculum. The purpos…Read more
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8Theology in Times of PandemicStudia Humana 10 (1): 34-40. 2021.A question arises regarding theology and its functions when trying to cope with the coronavirus pandemic. Surely Christian faith – along with other religions – can play a role in helping to deal with this crisis, both for individuals and collectively. Theology connects with the effort religious faith and Churches perform and provides models and ideas to highlight the Christian sense of what is happening, that is, in reference to a saving God. Four keys, rooted in the Christian tradition, are pro…Read more
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49Religion as a language: Exploring alternative paths in conversation with postreductionist anthropologiesZygon 50 (4): 982-1001. 2015.New scientific approaches to religion have delivered a considerable number of theories aimed at explaining it, despite its cognitive and adaptive oddities. These efforts were built on available theoretical frameworks, including those from cognitive science, biology, and anthropology. Many voices have raised criticism against several aspects in the cognitive and evolutionist program, even if recognizing their legitimacy and the fruits collected to date. A pressing issue is whether the problem wit…Read more
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8Dealing with Free Will in Contemporary Theology: is It Still a Question?Studia Humana 8 (1): 67-74. 2019.Free will is a very hot issue in several theoretical settings, but less in theology, or at least not as much as use to be in former times, when the discussions on sinfulness, grace and freedom were igniting a long season of controversies, especially in the Reformation time. Even in ecumenical dialogue apparently free will does not play a great role, since the reached consensus seems quite peaceful and agreement dominates over discussion. However, some theological insights, especially Karl Rahner…Read more
Lluis Oviedo
Pontificia Universita Antonianum
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Pontificia Universita AntonianumProfessor
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy, Misc |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy, Misc |