Philosophy of Religion : An Anthology of Contemporary Views

by Stewart, Melville Y.

• ISBN13: 9780534542634
• ISBN10: 0534542638
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This volume contains primarily recent essays in philosophy of religion, representing the analytic and continental traditions of the West. A total of 36 authors from varying Christian traditions, and several from the atheistic orientation have contributed to a total of 42 essays. Nearly half of the essays are unique to this anthology.

Table of Contents

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Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Faith and Reason	p. 17
Kierkegaard's Arguments Against Objective Reasoning in Religion	p. 33
Kierkegaard on Rationality	p. 49
The Relevance of Historical Evidence for Christian Faith: A Critique of a Kierkegaardian View	p. 65
Justification and Theism	p. 83
Can Belief in God Be Rational If It Has No Foundations	p. 109
In Search of the Foundations of Theism	p. 159
Technological Faith and Christian Doubt	p. 179
Modal Versions of the Ontological Argument	p. 195
Some Emendations of Godel's Ontological Proof	p. 203
An Examination of the Cosmological Argument	p. 217
The Argument from Design	p. 233
A Modified Version of the Argument from Religious Experience	p. 247
Religious Experience as Self-Transcendence and Self-Deception	p. 263
Religious Experience and Religious Belief	p. 289
What Good Are Theistic Proofs?	p. 299
Does Belief in God Need Proof?	p. 313
Evil and Omnipotence	p. 333
The Greater Good Defense	p. 345
Evil and Soul-Making	p. 361
The Free Will Defense	p. 369
Evil - A Religious Mystery: A Plea for a More Inclusive Model of Theodicy	p. 399
The Inductive Argument from Evil and the Human Cognitive Condition	p. 421
The Inscrutable Evil Defense Against the Inductive Argument from Evil	p. 455
Some Puzzles Concerning Omnipotence	p. 469
Omnipotence and Almightiness	p. 473
Middle Knowledge	p. 489
Divine Foreknowledge and Alternative Conceptions of Human Freedom	p. 519
Eternity	p. 535
A New Doctrine of Eternity	p. 559
The Argument from Miracles	p. 579
For the Possibility of Miracles	p. 605
Miracles: What If They Happen?	p. 615
Miracles and the Laws of Nature	p. 631
Bayes, Hume, and Miracles	p. 647
The Finality of Death	p. 669
Monism and Immortality	p. 673
The Possibility of Resurrection	p. 691
The Future of the Soul	p. 697
Religious Pluralism and Salvation	p. 713
Plantinga, Pluralism and Justified Religious Belief	p. 727
Thinking About Theocentric Christology	p. 743
Glossary	p. 761
Bibliography	p. 769
Index	p. 773
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