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Introduction to Philosophy of Religion

by: Kellenberger; James

Introduction to Philosophy of Religion

by: Kellenberger; James

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Copyright: 09/01/2006
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE

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Summary

Using various and competing religious sensibilities, Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion helps readers work through the traditional material and their own religious questions. It addresses the question "Does God exist?," while also engaging how religions are lived and experienced in contemporary life. This book includes chapters or sections on the religions of the world, with sections on the history, belief, and practice of five world religions; the relevance to faith of the arguments for the existence of God; the realism issue; religious plurality; and the gender issue For individuals interested in the study of philosophy of religion.

Preface

viii

Introduction: Philosophy and Religion

(5)

Religions of the World

(26)

Hinduism

(4)

Buddhism

(4)

Judaism

(5)

Christianity

(5)

Islam

(5)

Other Religious Forms

(3)

Proving God's Existence

(24)

The Main Argument for God's Existence

(2)

The Ontological Argument

(6)

Criticisms of the Ontological Argument

(3)

The Cosmological Argument

(6)

Criticisms of the Cosmological Argument

(3)

The Teleological Argument

(4)

Criticisms of the Teleological Argument

(2)

Summing Up and Going Further

(3)

Questions for Chapter 2

(3)

Religious Faith and Proving God's Existence

(16)

Two Questions about Proving God's Existence

(1)

The Relevance for Faith of the Arguments for God's Existence

(10)

Summing Up and Going Further

(2)

Questions for Chapter 3

(3)

Is Religious Belief Reasonable?

(25)

Faith and Reason

(1)

Blaise Pascal and the Reasonableness of Faith

(2)

Criticisms of Pascal's Account

(1)

William James and the Right to Believe

(5)

Criticisms of James's Account

(1)

Contemporary Concerns about ``Evidentialism''

(1)

Alvin Plantinga and the Rationality of Religious Belief

(4)

Criticisms of Plantinga's Account

(2)

William Alston and the Reliability of Religious Belief Formation

(6)

Criticisms of Alston's Account

(1)

Summing Up and Going Further

(1)

Questions for Chapter 4

(5)

Religious Discovery: Is the Discovery of God Possible?

(20)

Religious Experience and Discovery

(2)

Kinds of Discoveries

(2)

The Religious Sensibility of the Psalms

101

(4)

Why Doesn't Everyone Realize God's Presence?

105

(2)

Is a Realization-Discovery of God's Presence Possible?

107

(6)

Criticisms of This Account

111

(2)

Summing Up and Going Further

113

(1)

Questions for Chapter 5

114

(3)

The Religious Problem of Evil

117

(14)

Problems of Evil

117

(1)

The Personal Nature of the Religious Problem of Evil

117

(1)

The Religious Problem of Evil and Faith in God

118

(1)

Evil and God's Goodness and Power

119

(1)

Moral Evil and Natural Evil

120

(1)

Some Religious Answers

121

(3)

The Free Will Theodicy

121

(1)

Criticisms of The Free Will Theodicy

122

(1)

The Best of All Possible Worlds Theodicy

122

(1)

Criticisms of the Best of All Possible Worlds Theodicy

123

(1)

The Irenaean Theodicy

123

(1)

Criticisms of The Irenaean Theodicy

123

(1)

When the Religious Problem of Evil Is Not a Problem

124

(2)

Back to the Practical Problem of Evil

126

(2)

Summing Up and Going Further

128

(1)

Questions for Chapter 6

129

(2)

Miracles

131

(12)

Miracles in Religious Traditions

131

(1)

Intervention Miracles

131

(5)

Contingency Miracles

136

(1)

Natural Miracles

137

(3)

Summing Up and Going Further

140

(1)

Questions for Chapter 7

141

(2)

Religion and Morality

143

(16)

Two Preliminary Questions

144

(3)

How Close Is Religious Morality to Secular or Nonreligious Morality?

144

(1)

Is Religious Morality the Same from Religion to Religion?

145

(2)

The Question of the Relationship between Religion and Morality: Three Views

147

(9)

Morality Independent of Religion

147

(1)

Critical Examination of the First View

148

(1)

Divine Command Morality

148

(3)

Critical Examination of Divine Command Morality

151

(1)

Divine Action as the Foundation of Morality

152

(1)

The Natural Law Form of the Third View

152

(2)

Critical Examination of the Third View in its Natural Law Form

154

(1)

The Relationships Form of the Third View

155

(1)

Critical Examination of the Third View in its Relationships Form

155

(1)

Summing Up and Going Further

156

(1)

Questions for Chapter 8

156

(3)

Religious Language, Metaphor, and Gender

159

(17)

Issues of Religious Language

159

(1)

Does Religious Language Have Factual Meaning?

160

(3)

Metaphor

163

(4)

The Gender Issue

167

(5)

How Should God Be Conceived?

168

(1)

How Should God Be Imaged?

168

(4)

Summing Up and Going Further

172

(1)

Questions for Chapter 9

173

(3)

Religious Realism and the Meaning of God

176

(16)

The Issue of Religious Realism and Questions about the Meaning of God

176

(1)

The Perspective of Non-realism

177

(5)

The Perspective of Realism

182

(6)

Critical Examination of Realism and Non-realism

184

(4)

Summing Up and Going Further

188

(1)

Questions for Chapter 10

189

(3)

Religious Plurality: The Mutual-Opposition View, Exclusivism, Inclusivism, and Pluralism

192

(23)

The Undeniable Phenomenon of Religious Plurality

192

(1)

The Mutual-Opposition View

193

(1)

Exclusivism

194

(5)

Critical Examination of Exclusivism

199

(1)

Inclusivism

199

(4)

Critical Examination of Inclusivism

202

(1)

Pluralism

203

(6)

Critical Examination of Pluralism

208

(1)

Summing Up and Going Further

209

(2)

Questions for Chapter 11

211

(4)

Other Ways of Understanding Religious Plurality

215

(25)

The Different Aspects Approach

215

(3)

Critical Examination of the Different Aspects Approach

217

(1)

The Common Core Approach

218

(5)

Critical Examination of the Common Core Approach

222

(1)

The Indeterminacy Approach

223

(5)

Critical Examination of the Indeterminacy Approach

227

(1)

The Relationships Approach

228

(8)

Critical Examination of the Relationships Approach

236

(1)

Summing Up and Going Further

236

(1)

Questions for Chapter 12

237

(3)

Glossary

240

(5)

Index

245

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Introduction to Philosophy of Religion

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