Faith in a Hard Ground : Essays on Religion, Philosophy and Ethics

by Anscombe, G. E. M.; Geach, Mary; Gormally, Luke

• ISBN13: 9781845401436
• ISBN10: 1845401433
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-30
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

Summary

Elizabeth Anscombe's forthright philosophy speaks directly to many religious and ethical issues of current concern.This collection of her essays forms a companion volume to the critically acclaimed Human Life, Action and Ethics published in 2005.

Table of Contents

What is it to believe someone?	p. 1
Faith	p. 11
Prophecy and miracles	p. 20
Hume on miracles	p. 40
Paganism, superstition and philosophy	p. 49
On the hatred of God	p. 61
On attachment to things and obedience to God	p. 63
Twenty opinions common among modern Anglo-American philosophers	p. 66
The immortality of the soul	p. 69
On transubstantiation	p. 84
Authority in morals	p. 92
On being in good faith	p. 101
Morality	p. 113
Sin : the McGivney lectures	p. 117
Two moral theologians	p. 157
Contraception and chastity	p. 170
On Humanae Vitae	p. 192
Address to the clergy : on contraception and natural family planning	p. 199
Contraception, chastity and the vocation of marriage	p. 206
The early embryo : theoretical doubts and practical certainties	p. 214
The moral environment of the child	p. 224
Christians and nuclear weapons designed for the destruction of cities	p. 234
Simony in Africa	p. 239
Philosophers and economists : two philosophers' objections to usury	p. 247
On wisdom	p. 258
Index	p. 267
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