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001 2009026591
003 DLC
005 20100415133309.0
008 090629s2009 ilu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009026591
020 $a9780830838769 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a0830838767 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn421949557
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dBTCTA$dC#P$dSGB$dDLC
050 00 $aBL51$b.E86 2009
082 00 $a210$222
100 1 $aEvans, C. Stephen.
245 10 $aPhilosophy of religion :$bthinking about faith /$cC. Stephen Evans & R. Zachary Manis.
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aDowners Grove, Ill. :$bIVP Academic,$cc2009.
300 $a234 p. ;$c21 cm.
490 1 $aContours of Christian philosophy
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [217]-229) and index.
505 0 $aGeneral 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?
650 0 $aReligion$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aPhilosophical theology.
700 1 $aManis, R. Zachary.
830 0 $aContours of Christian philosophy.