Last Friday, April 4, students and teachers addressed the Fuenlabrada Campus Fourth day of the Seminar on Primitive and Present-day Human History, Organized by the Professor Jesus Jimenez Guijarro (Ancient History area). The students of the Double Degree in History and Tourism and the History Degree from the King Juan Carlos University, Lara Ezquerra Clemente y Jamal Bouzecour Mahio, introduced the topic “Anthropology and Theology: The Meaning of God" to open the subsequent lively debate.

In a careful and synthetic presentation, through a tour of the different scientific and philosophical positions, the issue was addressed idea and the concept de God en different cultures across first 20 minutes of the day through the use of digital media. In a graphic way, the sketch of how the concept of God has been established in culture and, above all, the way in which the philosophers have tried to present and respond to the figure of the deity trying to provide it with a sense.

During the debate, in which nearly 20 students, topics of enormous interest were addressed such as value of the concept of God itself in different cultural and social contexts, the importance of the biases produced in the Western cultures due to the presence predominant of the “religions of the book” or the need to approach the analysis of God from the point of view of moral.

During the course of the debate, the different issues were also raised: agnostic and atheistic positions and were compared with the established beliefs around the value of the figure of God , the preternatural and supernatural element , as a guarantor of the creation of moral and philosophical systems, necessary for the proper functioning of human societies. The existence of conceptual barriers between deistic conceptions of the West and the East, and also those existing to have a knowledge of the value of the concept of deity in the prehistoric world and in AntiquityThe question was raised as to whether the The cosmogonic essence of God could be related to the concept of being searching, as I did Heidegger, That relationship between being and the divine, and how the The way some cultures think about God might be closer to God than metaphysics itself.The debate also focused on the dichotomy between Antiquity and the modern “rational” world, in which a multiplicity of gods ended up leading to unicist figuresIt is of enormous theological significance and social significance for the configuration of the current world.

The debate concluded with a reflexión about need to approach the concept of God from a philosophical and academic perspective communication so that it allows us to address the religious concept from systems marked by the respect and acceptance to all explanations that involve the existence o nonexistence de God.