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Philosophy of religion : thinking about faith /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Evans, C. Stephen
Otros Autores: Manis, R. Zachary
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, [2009]
Edición:Second edition.
Colección:Contours of Christian philosophy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?