Companion to Philosophy of Religion

by Quinn, Philip L.; Taliaferro, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780631213284
• ISBN10: 0631213287
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-18
• Publisher: INGRAM

Summary

In over 78 newly-commissioned essays, this outstanding volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the philosophy of religion. Written by many of today's leading figures, the volume surveys philosophical issues in the religions of the world, philosophical thought about religion in Western history, and important currents in twentieth-century philosophy of religion. Theism is treated systematically in discussions of religious language, the concept of God, arguments for and against theistic belief, and its relations to other aspects of culture, such as science and values. A final section on new directions in philosophy of religion explores feminism, religious pluralism, and comparative philosophy of religion. This volume will stand for many years to come as the standard reference resource for students and specialists alike.

Author Biography

Philip L. Quinn is John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and was previously William Herbert Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University, Rhode Island. He is author of Divine Commands and Moral Requirements (1978), and of numerous articles in philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, theoretical physics, religious ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, value theory, political philosophy, and philosophy and literature. He has served as editor of the journal Faith and Philosophy (1990-5); as President of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association (1994-5); and as Chair of the National Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association (1995-9).

Charles Taliaferro is Associate Professor of Philosophy at St Olaf College, Minnesota. He was Visiting Scholar at Oriel College, Oxford, and has taught at Brown University, the University of Massachusetts, and the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He is the author of Consciousness and the Mind of God (1994) and Contemporary Philosophy of Religion (Blackwell Publishers, 1997), and numerous papers in philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and ethics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xii
List of contributors	xiii
Introduction	1	(6)
Philip L. Quinn
Charles Taliaferro
PART I: PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES IN THE RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD
Hinduism	7	(8)
Ninian Smart
Buddhism	15	(10)
Paul J. Griffiths
Chinese Confucianism and Daoism	25	(9)
Chad Hansen
African religions from a philosophical point of view	34	(9)
Kwasi Wiredu
Judaism	43	(13)
Lenn E. Goodman
Christianity	56	(8)
William J. Wainwright
Islam	64	(9)
Azim A. Nanji
Aziz A. Esmail
PART II: PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION WESTERN HISTORY
Ancient philosophical theology	73	(7)
Kevin L. Flannery
The Christian contribution to medieval philosophical theology	80	(8)
Scott MacDonald
The Islamic contribution to medieval philosophical theology	88	(7)
David Burrell
The Jewish contribution to medieval philosophical theology	95	(8)
Tamar Rudavsky
Early modern philosophical theology	103	(8)
Derk Pereboom
The emergence of modern philosophy of religion	111	(10)
Merold Westphal
PART III: SOME CURRENTS IN TWENTIETH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
American pragmatism	121	(8)
Nancy Frankenberry
Personalism	129	(7)
Patricia A. Sayre
Process theology	136	(7)
David Ray Griffin
Phenomenology and existentialism	143	(7)
Merold Westphal
Wittgensteinianism	150	(8)
John Hyman
Thomism	158	(7)
Ralph McInerny
The reformed tradition	165	(6)
Nicholas Wolterstorff
The Anglican tradition	171	(8)
Brian Hebblethwaite
The Jewish tradition	179	(7)
Robert Gibbs
The Orthodox tradition	186	(11)
Paul Valliere
PART IV: THEISM AND THE LINGUISTIC TURN
Religious language	197	(7)
Janet Soskice
The verificationist challenge	204	(9)
Michael Martin
Theological realism and antirealism	213	(10)
Roger Trigg
PART V: THE THEISTIC CONCEPTION OF GOD
Being	223	(6)
C. J. F. Williams
Omnipotence	229	(7)
Joshua Hoffman
Gary Rosenkrantz
Omniscience	236	(7)
George I. Mavrodes
Goodness	243	(7)
Paul Helm
Simplicity	250	(7)
Eleonore Stump
Eternity	257	(7)
Brian Leftow
Necessity	264	(7)
William E. Mann
Incorporeality	271	(8)
Charles Taliaferro
Beauty	279	(7)
Patrick Sherry
Omnipresence	286	(5)
Edward R. Wierenga
Foreknowledge and human freedom	291	(8)
Linda Zagzebski
Divine action	299	(7)
Thomas F. Tracy
Creation and conservation	306	(7)
Hugh J. McCann
Immutability and impassibility	313	(10)
Richard E. Creel
PART VI: THE JUSTIFICATION OF THEISTIC BELIEF
Ontological arguments	323	(8)
Clement Dore
Cosmological arguments	331	(7)
William L. Rowe
Teleological and design arguments	338	(7)
Laura L. Garcia
Moral arguments	345	(7)
C. Stephen Evans
Pragmatic arguments	352	(8)
Jeffrey Jordan
Miracles	360	(7)
George N. Schlesinger
Religious experience	367	(9)
Keith E. Yandell
Fideism	376	(7)
Terence Penelhum
Reformed epistemology	383	(10)
Alvin Plantinga
PART VII: CHALLENGES TO THE RATIONALITY OF THEISTIC BELIEF
The problem of evil	393	(9)
Michael L. Peterson
Naturalistic explanations of theistic belief	402	(8)
Kai Nielsen
The presumption of atheism	410	(9)
Antony Flew
PART VIII: THEISM AND MODERN SCIENCE
Theism and physical cosmology	419	(7)
William Craig
Theism and evolutionary biology	426	(7)
William Hasker
Theism and the scientific understanding of the mind	433	(9)
Robert Audi
Theism and technology	442	(11)
Frederick Ferre
PART IX: THEISM AND VALUES
Divine command ethics	453	(7)
Janine Marie Idziak
Natural law ethics	460	(6)
Robert P. George
Virtue ethics	466	(7)
Jean Porter
Narrative ethics	473	(8)
Robert C. Roberts
Agapeistic ethics	481	(8)
Gene Outka
Theism, law, and politics	489	(8)
Paul J. Weithman
Theism and medical ethics	497	(8)
James F. Childress
Theism and environmental ethics	505	(9)
Gary L. Comstock
Theism and toleration	514	(11)
Edward Langerak
PART X: PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION ON CHRISTIAN FAITH
Trinity	525	(7)
David Brown
Incarnation	532	(9)
Ronald J. Feenstra
Sin and original sin	541	(8)
Philip L. Quinn
Atonement, justification, and sanctification	549	(7)
John E. Hare
Survival of death	556	(6)
Stephen T. Davis
Heaven and hell	562	(7)
Jonathan L. Kvanvig
Providence and predestination	569	(8)
Thomas P. Flint
Petitionary prayer	577	(7)
Eleonore Stump
Revelation and scripture	584	(7)
William J. Abraham
Tradition	591	(10)
Basil Mitchell
PART XI: NEW DIRECTIONS IN PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
Feminism	601	(6)
Sarah Coakley
Religious pluralism	607	(8)
John Hick
Comparative philosophy of religion	615	(6)
Paul J. Griffiths
Resources for further study	621	(2)
Index	623