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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sweetman, Brendan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum, ©2007.
Colección:Key concepts in philosophy.
Temas:
Religion > Philosophy.
Religion > Philosophie.
RELIGION > Philosophy.
Religion > Philosophy
Religionsphilosophie
Godsdienstfilosofie.
Lehrbuch.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction : the God question
  • Is your worldview reasonable?
  • Some terminology
  • Faith and reason
  • 2. First cause and design
  • The kalãm 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.

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