An edition of Philosophy of religion (2009)

Philosophy of religion

thinking about faith

2nd ed.

by C. Stephen Evans

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An edition of Philosophy of religion (2009)

Philosophy of religion

thinking about faith

2nd ed.

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Book Details

General preface

Preface to the second edition

What is philosophy of religion? Philosophy of religion and other disciplines ; Philosophy of religion and philosophy ; Can thinking about religion be neutral? ; Fideism ; Neutralism ; Critical dialogue

The theistic God : the project of natural theology. Concepts of God ; The theistic concept of God ; A case study : divine foreknowledge and human freedom ; The problem of religious language ; Natural theology ; Proofs of God's existence

Classical arguments for God's existence. Ontological arguments ; Cosmological arguments ; Teleological arguments ; Moral arguments ; Conclusions: the value of theistic argument

Religious experience. Types of religious experience ; Two models for understanding experience ; Experience of God as direct and mediated ; Are religious experiences veridical? ; Checking experiential claims

Special acts of God : revelation and miracles. Special acts ; Theories of revelation ; Is the traditional view defensible? ; What is a miracle? ; Is it reasonable to believe in miracles? ; Can a revelation have special authority?

Religion, modernity, and science. Modernity and religious belief ; Naturalism ; Do the natural sciences undermine religious belief? ; Objections from the social sciences ; Religious uses of modern atheism?

The problem of evil. Types of evil, versions of the problem and types of responses ; The logical form of the problem ; The evidential form of the problem ; Horrendous evils and the problem of hell ; Divine hiddenness

Faith(s) and reason. Faith : subjectivity in religious arguments ; The evidentialist challenge to religious belief ; Reformed epistemology ; The place of subjectivity in forming beliefs ; Interpretive judgments and the nature of a "cumulative case" ; Can faith be certain? ; Faith and doubt : can religious faith be tested? ; What is faith? ; Could one religion be true?

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-229) and index.

Published in: Downers Grove, Ill
Series: Contours of Christian philosophy, Contours of Christian philosophy

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class: 210
Library of Congress: BL51 .E86 2009, BL51.E86 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination: 234 p. ;
Number of pages: 234

ID Numbers

Open Library: OL24461059M
ISBN 10: 0830838767
ISBN 13: 9780830838769
LCCN: 2009026591
OCLC/WorldCat: 421949557

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Philosophy of religion

thinking about faith

by C. Stephen Evans