• One major challenge theologians need to address is the modern world-religion conflict. In spite of the efforts they have made to explain and tackle this issue, no achievement has been reached. As a theologian, David Tracy has tried to propose a model based on which religious humans might be able to live in this world. In order to do so, he has borrowed a great deal from preceding theologians and hermeneutics philosophers. Having re-read Christian resources, he explained pluralistic situation of …Read more
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    A New Reading of Epicurean`s Facing Death in the Modern World
    Philosophical Meditations 11 (27): 387-409. 2022.
    Facing death has always been regarded as a main philosophical issue in human`s life. Major philosophical traditions have given it abundant attention and tried to analyze it as the most serious concern of humans. One of the main ancient philosophical traditions, Epicurean relying on human wisdom tries to address this issue. Death, since the Stone Age, has brought alterations to the context of societies so that fear of death is currently seriously investigated by philosophers and psychologists, sp…Read more
  • Narrative, as one of the main discourses of linguistics in the contemporary world, has been introduced to the realm of philosophy and theology too. The tradition of Christian theology has tried to highlight the significance of narrative in its re-reading the Holy Book. This re-reading has its roots in the universality of narrative in all aspects of life. Through this re-reading, believers share an experience with Jesus to reach an objective understanding of theses doctrines. This article aims to…Read more
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    Theological Models of Lindbeck and Phillips: A Comparison
    with Jahangir Massoudi
    پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین 16 (1): 211-224. 2018.
    One of the controversial topics in philosophy of religion is the Wittgensteinian theological models based on his notions of language game and lifestyle. Ostensibly, all these models result from the thoughts of the same person and have been at times subject to the same criticisms. However, some of the models have been more capable of offering convincing responses to those criticisms. The current study aims to investigate two popular models based on Wittgensteinian ideas. The first one is George L…Read more
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    The current study aims to explain the fundamentals of religious pluralism in Wittgenstein later philosophy and Gadamer philosophical hermeneutics, specifically regarding culture. It, then, proposes the approach more suitable for the Islamic context. Having fulfilled such an objective, pluralism, concerning religious rituals, becomes accepted and cultural and religious interaction is realized without any relativism conclusion. Wittgenstein’s pluralism results in pure relativism. That is to say, i…Read more