Exploring the Philosophy of Religion
ISBN: 9780205645190 | 0205645194
Edition: 7thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 6/26/2009
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Professor David Stewart called upon his 32 years of teaching experience to introduce students to the important study of faith and reason. Beginning students often find primary sources alone too difficult so this text offers primary source materials by a variety of significant philosophersincluding a balanced blend of classical and contemporary authorsbut the materials are supported by clearly written introductions, which better prepare students to understand the readings.
This introduction to the philosophy of reli... MORE
This introduction to the philosophy of reli... MORE
| Preface | p. xi |
| The Varieties of Religious Experience | p. 1 |
| Introduction: Philosophy and Religion | p. 1 |
| Mystical Experience | p. 6 |
| Mysticism | p. 9 |
| Intuitive Ways of Knowing | p. 16 |
| Personal Experience of God | p. 17 |
| Critique of Mysticism | p. 28 |
| The Core of Religion | p. 29 |
| Varieties of Religious Understanding | p. 36... MORE |
| The Pluralistic Hypothesis | p. 38 |
| Retrospective: Religious Experience | p. 47 |
| Additional Sources | p. 48 |
| Religion and Life | p. 49 |
| Introduction: Religion and Life | p. 49 |
| Life's Goal Is to Obey God's Will | p. 53 |
| Moral Obligation | p. 55 |
| Life's Goal Is to Achieve Greatness | p. 58 |
| The Joyful Wisdom | p. 60 |
| Life Is Not Meaningful Without God | p. 64 |
| A Confession | p. 65 |
| Life Is Meaningful Without God | p. 71 |
| Ethics Without Religion | p. 74 |
| Retrospective: Religion and Life | p. 82 |
| Additional Sources | p. 83 |
| Religion and Human Destiny | p. 85 |
| Introduction: Religion and Death | p. 85 |
| The Immortality of the Soul | p. 88 |
| Phaedo | p. 89 |
| The Finality of Death | p. 96 |
| Letter to Menoeceus | p. 98 |
| The Hope for Resurrection | p. 101 |
| The Death of Death | p. 102 |
| Death in Buddhism | p. 112 |
| The Doctrine of No-Soul: Anatta | p. 114 |
| Retrospective: Religion and Death | p. 117 |
| Additional Sources | p. 118 |
| Arguments for God's Existence | p. 119 |
| Introduction: The Existence of God | p. 119 |
| The Ontological Argument | p. 123 |
| The Most Perfect Being | p. 128 |
| The Cosmological Arguments | p. 132 |
| The Kalam Cosmological Argument | p. 136 |
| The Design Argument | p. 142 |
| Natural Theology | p. 144 |
| The Moral Argument | p. 151 |
| God as a Postulate of Practical Reason | p. 153 |
| Retrospective: The Existence of God | p. 158 |
| Additional Sources | p. 159 |
| The Problem of Evil | p. 161 |
| Introduction: God and Evil | p. 161 |
| Evil and the Power of God | p. 168 |
| Divine Omnipotence | p. 171 |
| Theodicy in Process Thought | p. 177 |
| God in Process | p. 180 |
| Karma and Evil | p. 188 |
| Karma in Hindu Thought | p. 190 |
| The "Vale of Soul-Making" Theodicy | p. 195 |
| Evil and the God of Love | p. 198 |
| Retrospective: God and Evil | p. 204 |
| Additional Sources | p. 207 |
| Faith and Reason | p. 209 |
| Introduction: Opinion, Belief, and Knowledge | p. 209 |
| Belief and Falsification | p. 214 |
| The Falsification Debate | p. 218 |
| Will and Belief | p. 227 |
| The Will to Believe | p. 233 |
| No Rational Basis for Faith | p. 245 |
| Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion | p. 246 |
| The Leap of Faith | p. 253 |
| Objective and Subjective Reflection | p. 256 |
| Retrospective: Faith and Reason | p. 260 |
| Additional Sources | p. 261 |
| Religion and Current Issues | p. 263 |
| Introduction: Religion and Society | p. 263 |
| Religion and Government | p. 266 |
| A Letter Concerning Toleration | p. 269 |
| Religion and Women | p. 275 |
| The Female Nature of God | p. 277 |
| Religion and World Origins | p. 284 |
| Creative Evolution | p. 291 |
| Religion and Human Origins | p. 300 |
| Life's Dominion | p. 302 |
| Retrospective: Religion and Current Issues | p. 311 |
| Additional Sources | p. 312 |
| Biographical Summaries | p. 314 |
| Glossary | p. 318 |
| Index | p. 324 |
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David Stewart received the Ph.D. from Rice University and has over thirty years experience teaching philosophy at Rice University, North Texas State University and Ohio University. In addition to Exploring the Philosophy of Religion, He is also co-author of Fundamentals of Philosophy (7th edition, Prentice Hall, 2010).
