Religion /
The philosophy of religion is a core area in the study of philosophy, as well as being a subject of growing contemporary interest.€ It encompasses some of the major and most complex philosophical questions. Does God exist? What is God's nature? Why does God allow evil? What is a religious exper...
| Основен автор: | Sweetman, Brendan. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
London ; New York :
Continuum,
℗♭2007.
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| Серия: |
Key concepts in philosophy.
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Religion. |
Съдържание:
- 1.
- Introduction : the God question
- Is your worldview reasonable?
- Some terminology
- Faith and reason
- 2.
- First cause and design
- The kalam cosmological argument
- St. Thomas's version of the cosmological argument
- The teleological argument
- The anthropic argument from design
- 3.
- Necessary being, morality and miracles
- The ontological argument
- God and morality
- The argument from miracles
- 4.
- What is God like?
- The classical view of God
- Challenges to the classical view
- God's omnipotence
- God's omniscience
- A note on Eastern views of God
- 5.
- God and evil
- Evil, and the problem of evil
- Problems of evil : logical, evidential, existential
- The evidential problem of evil
- Theistic replies : the free-will defence
- Explaining evil within theism
- Augustinian and Irenaean theodicies.
- 6.
- Religious experience and God
- What is a religious experience?
- Two types of argument from religious experience
- The contemporary argument : reformed epistemology
- John Hick on religious experience
- 7.
- Religion and science
- The Galileo affair
- Atheism, naturalism and science
- The theory of evolution
- The evidence for evolution
- Evolution, religion and creationism
- Is evolution a threat to religious belief?
- Mind, soul and immortality
- 8.
- Religious diversity : is there a true religion?
- Religious exclusivism
- Religious pluralism
- Religious inclusivism
- Notes
- Guide to further reading
- Index.