Philosophy of Religion : Thinking about Faith
ISBN: 9780830838769 | 0830838767
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Intervarsity Pr
Pub. Date: 11/30/2009
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With over 40,000 copies in print since its original publication in 1982, Steve Evans's Philosophy of Religion has served many generations of students. In this new edition Zach Manis joins Evans in a thorough revamping of arguments and information, while maintaining the qualities of clarity and brevity that made the first edition so appreciated.
| General preface | |
| Preface to the Second Edition | |
| What Is Philosophy of Religion? | |
| Philosophy of Religion and Other Disciplines | |
| Philosophy of Religion and Philosophy | |
| Can Thinking About Religion Be Neutral? | |
| Fideism | |
| Neutralism | |
| Critical Dialogue | |
| The Theistic God: The Project of Natural Theology | ... MORE |
| Concepts of God | |
| The Theistic Concept of God | |
| A Case Study: Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom | |
| The Problem of Religious Language | |
| Natural Theology | |
| Proofs of God's Existence | |
| Classical Arguments for God's Existence | |
| Ontological Arguments | |
| Cosmological Arguments | |
| Teleological Arguments | |
| Moral Arguments | |
| Conclusions: The Value of Theistic Argument | |
| Religious Experience | |
| Types of Religious Experience | |
| Two Models for Understanding Experience | |
| Experience of God as Direct and Mediated | |
| Are Religious Experiences Veridical? | |
| Checking Experiential Claims | |
| Special Acts of God: Revelation and Miracles | |
| Special Acts | |
| Theories of Revelation | |
| Is the Traditional View Defensible? | |
| What Is a Miracle? | |
| Is It Reasonable to Believe in Miracles? | |
| Can a Revelation Have Special Authority? | |
| Religion, Modernity and Science | |
| Modernity and Religious Belief | |
| Naturalism | |
| Do the Natural Sciences Undermine Religious Belief? | |
| Objections from the Social Sciences | |
| Religious Uses of Modern Atheism? | |
| The Problem of Evil | |
| Types of Evil, Versions of the Problem, and Types of Response | |
| The Logical Form of the Problem | |
| The Evidential Form of the Problem | |
| Horrendous Evils and the Problem of Hell | |
| Divine Hiddenness | |
| Faith(s) and Reason | |
| Faith: Subjectivity in Religious Arguments | |
| The Evidentialist Challenge to Religious Belief | |
| Reformed Epistemology | |
| The Place of Subjectivity in Forming Beliefs | |
| Interpretive Judgments and the Nature of a Cumulative Case | |
| Can Faith Be Certain? | |
| Faith and Doubt: Can Religious Faith Be Tested? | |
| What Is Faith? | |
| Could One Religion Be True? | |
| Notes | |
| Further Reading | |
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