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    Divine assistance is necessary for the transition into th... — Carmelics
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    Divine assistance is necessary for the transition into the religious life

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    • 1.The transition into the religious life requires genuine repentance
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    • 2.God is genuinely 'other' than the human self and not identifiable with it
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    • 3.God's assistance is necessary even for the repentance that initiates the transition
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    • 1.William James documented in 'The Varieties of Religious Experience' that self-directed gradual religious conversion occurs without subjects reporting divine intervention.
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    • 2.Empirical accounts of religious transformation through contemplative practice, as in Theravada Buddhism, demonstrate transitions into religious life achieved through disciplined human effort alone.
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    • 3.A necessary condition must be present in all cases, so one confirmed counterexample of unaided religious transition falsifies the claim of necessity.
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    • 1.Pelagius argued that humans possess sufficient natural capacity for moral reform without requiring supernatural grace to initiate it.
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    • 2.If divine assistance were necessary for even the first movement toward repentance, humans would bear no meaningful moral responsibility for remaining irreligious.
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    A very different response to Hegel (and Kant) is found in the work of Søren Kierkegaard (1813–55), a religious thinker who started, like Hegel and Kant, from Lutheranism. Kierkegaard mocked Hegel constantly for presuming to understand the whole system in which human history is embedded, while still being located in a particular small part of it. On the other hand, he used Hegelian categories of thought himself, especially in his idea of the aesthetic life, the ethical life and the religious life
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