Reason & Religious Belief: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion - Brossura

Peterson, Michael; Hasker, William; Reichenbach, Bruce; Basinger, David

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ISBN 10: 0199946574 ISBN 13: 9780199946570

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2012

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Contenuti

• Preface to the Fifth Edition
• Introduction
• 1. Thinking about God: The Search for the Divine
• Defining Religion
• What Is Philosophy of Religion?
• The God of Theism
• The Religious Ambiguity of Life
• Our Task
• 2. The Nature of Religion: What Are Religious Beliefs About?
• Religious Non-realism
• Buddhist Non-realism
• Religious Realism
• Wittgenstein on Religion
• Why Is This Issue Important?
• 3. Religious Experience: What Does It Mean to Encounter the Divine?
• Types of Religious Experience
• Religious Experience as Feeling
• Some Religious Experience as Perceptual Experience
• Religious Experience as Interpretation Based on Religious Beliefs
• Can Religious Experience Justify Religious Belief?
• The Principle of Credulity
• Diversity of Religious Experiences
• Is There a Common Core to Religious Experience?
• 4. Faith and Reason: How Are They Related?
• Can Reason Be Trusted?
• Strong Rationalism
• Fideism
• Critical Rationalism
• 5. Theistic Arguments: What Is the Evidence for God's Existence?
• Theistic Arguments as Proofs
• The Ontological Argument
• Contemporary Versions of the Ontological Argument
• The Cosmological Argument
• The Kalam Cosmological Argument
• The Atemporal Cosmological Argument
• The Analogical Teleological Argument
• The Anthropic Teleological Argument
• The Intelligent Design Teleological Argument
• The Moral Argument
• Cumulative Case Arguments and God
• The God of Religion and of Philosophy
• 6. Knowing God without Arguments: Does Theism Need a Basis?
• Evidentialism
• Critique of Evidentialism
• Plantinga on Properly Basic Beliefs
• Alston on Perceiving God
• Plantinga on Warrant and Knowledge
• 7. The Divine Attributes: What is God Like?
• Perfect and Worthy of Worship
• Necessary and Self-Existent
• Personal and Free Creator
• All-Powerful, All-Knowing, and Perfectly Good
• God Eternal—Timeless or Everlasting
• 8. Divine Action: How Does God Relate to the World?
• What Kind of Power Does God Exercise?
• What Kind of Freedom Has God Given?
• Does God Know What Would Have Happened?
• Does God Know the Actual Future?
• What If the Future Is Truly Open?
• 9. The Problem of Evil: What Is the Evidence against God's Existence?
• The Logical Problem of Evil
• The Evidential Problem of Evil
• Skeptical Theism and Other Approaches
• Can Theists Accept the Factual Premise?
• Defense and Theodicy
• Themes in Theodicy
• Some Important Global Theodicies
• Horrendous Evils and the Assessment of Theism
• 10. Miracles: Does God Intervene in Earthly Affairs?
• Miracles Defined
• Miracles as Historical Events
• Miracles as Unexplainable Events
• Miracles as Acts of God
• Practical Considerations
• 11. Life after Death: Are There Reasons for Hope?
• Terminology
• Concepts of Life after Death
• Personal Identity and the Soul
• Immortality of the Soul
• Criticism of the Soul-Concept
• The Self as a Psychophysical Unity
• Re-creation and Spatio-temporal Continuity
• There is No Persisting Self
• A Posteriori Arguments for Life after Death
• A Priori Arguments for Life after Death
• Prospects
• 12. Religious Language: How Can We Speak Meaningfully of God?
• Human Language and the Infinite
• The Classical Theory of Analogy
• Verification and Falsification Issues
• The Functions of Religious Discourse
• Religious Language as Symbolic
• Feminism and Masculine God-Talk
• Can Talk of God Be Literal?
• 13. Religion and Science: Are They Compatible or Incompatible?
• Do Religion and Science Conflict?
• Are Religion and Science Independent?
• Is Dialogue Possible?
• Attempts at Integration
• Theistic Evolution and the Science-Religion Debate
• Insights
• 14. Religious Diversity: How Can We Understand Differences among Religions?
• Religious Diversity
• Exclusivism
• Critique of Exclusivism
• Exclusivism and Justified Belief
• Pluralism
• Critique of Pluralism
• Pluralism as Plurality of Salvations
• Inclusivism
• Critique of Inclusivism
• Criteria for Assessing Religions
• 15. Religious Ethics: How Is God Related to Morality?
• The Source of Religious Ethical Truth
• The Authoritative Basis of Religious Ethical Truth
• The Acquisition of Religiously Based Ethical Truth
• The Significance of Religiously Based Ethical Truth
• Current Issues
• 16. The Continuing Quest: God and the Human Venture
• The Intellectual Process
• Philosophical Activity and Religious Faith
• Where Do We Go from Here?
• Glossary:
• Name Index:
• General Index:

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0199946574
• ISBN 13: 9780199946570
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 5
• Numero di pagine: 416
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile