Free and Religious Actions as Semiotic Effects of the Great Ideas

Maria Joanna Gondek

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004468016_004

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This chapter considers the human ability to exercise acts of faith, especially religious faith. For existential reasons, especially the prospect of death, human beings open up to the absolute being, forming a religious relationship, the development of which depends on individual persons’ free decisions. Such relationship may remain unfulfilled or it may become the reason for striving for fulfillment. This reality involves dramatic choices, which require human actions be transformed in a soteriological perspective. The way to achieve this is through religious actions such as prayer, sacrifice, or asceticism. Such actions have an individual character, yet their effects are manifest in various social dimensions. In this chapter, h these dimensions are considered.

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The Great Ideas of Religion and Freedom

A Semiotic Reinterpretation of The Great Ideas Movement for the 21st Century

Series: Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 369, Philosophy and Religion, Volume: 369, and Value Inquiry Book Series Online

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Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 17 Jul 2021

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