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Philosophy of Religion An Anthology

9780534543648

Philosophy of Religion An Anthology

  • ISBN 13:

    9780534543648

  • ISBN 10:

    0534543642

  • Edition: 4th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 05/07/2002
  • Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Preface. Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion. Part I: TRADITIONAL ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. 1. The Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God. St. Thomas Aquinas: The Five Ways. Samuel Clarke: The Argument from Contingency. Paul Edwards: A Critique of the Cosmological Argument. William Rowe: An Examination of the Cosmological Argument. William Lane Craig: The Kalam Cosmological Argument. William Lane Craig: Scientific Confirmation of the Cosmological Argument. Paul Draper: A Critique of the Kalam Cosmological Argument. 2. The Teleological Argument for the Existence of God. William Paley: The Watch and The Watchmaker. David Hume: A Critique of the Design Argument. Richard Swinburne: The Argument from Design. 3. The Ontological Argument. Anselm and Gaunilo: The Ontological Argument. Kant: Critique of the Ontological Argument. Norman Malcolm: Anselm''s Two Ontological Arguments. Part II: ON THE VALIDITY OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE. Selection of Mystic Experiences. William James: The Varieties of Religious Experience. Sigmund Freud: The Future of An Illusion. C.D. Broad: The Argument from Religious Experience. Wallace Matson: Skepticism on Religious Experience. Louis Pojman: A Critique of Arguments for The Validity of Religious Experience. William Alston: Religious Experience and Religious Belief. Bibliography. Part III: THE PROBLEM OF EVIL AND OTHER ATHEOLOGICAL ARGUMENTS. David Hume: The Argument from Evil. Leibniz: Theodicy. John Hick: Evil, Theodicy, and Soul-Making. Edward Madden and Peter Hare: A Critique of Hick''s Soul-Making Theodicy. John Mackie: The Problem of Evil Proves Atheism. Alvin Plantinga: The Free Will Defense. William Rowe: The Inductive Argument from Evil Against The Existence of God. Paul Draper: Evolution and The Problem of Evil. Bibliography. Part IV: THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD. 1. Time and Eternity. Stephen T. Davis: Temporal Eternity. Hugh Mccann: Timeless Eternity. 2. Omniscience and Freedom. St. Thomas Aquinas: Does God''s Omniscience Preclude Human Freedom? Nelson Pike: God''s Omniscience Does Preclude Human Freedom. Alvin Plantinga: God''s Omniscience Does Not Preclude Human Freedom. 3. Omnipotence. St. Thomas Aquinas: Is God''s Power Limited? George Mavrodes: Some Puzzles Concerning Omnipotence. Harry Frankfurt: The Logic of Omnipotence. Nelson Pike: Omnipotence and God''s Ability To Sin. Bibliography. Part V: MIRACLES AND REVELATION. David Hume: Against Miracles. Richard Swinburne: For the Possibility of Miracles. J. L. Mackie: Miracles and Testimony. Richard Purtill: Miracles: What If They Happen? Richard Swinburne: Miracles and Revelation. Bibliography. Part VI: DEATH AND IMMORTALITY. Plato: Immortality of the Soul. David Hume: Skepticism Over Immortality of the Soul. Bertrand Russell: The Finality of Death. John Hick: On Immortality and Resurrection. Anthony Flew: Against Survival. Jeffrey Olen: Personal Identity and Life After Death. Peter Van Inwagen: The Possibility of Resurrection. Bibliography. Part VII: FAITH AND REASON. 1. The Challenge to Faith. Anthony Flew, R. M. Hare, And Basil Mitchell: Theology and Falsification. Michael Scriven: The Presumption of Atheism. C. S. Lewis: The Legitimacy of Belief. 2. Pragmatic Justification of Religious Belief. Blaise Pascal: The Wager. W. K. Clifford: The Ethics of Belief. William James: The Will To Believe. 3. Fideism: Faith Without/Against Reason. Soren Kierkegaard: Subjectivity Is Truth. Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Lecture on Religious Belief. Norman Malcolm: The Groundlessness of Religious Belief. Michael Martin: A Critique of Fideism. 4. Rationality and Justified Religious Belief. John Hick: Rational Theistic Belief Without Proof. Alvin Plantinga: Religious Belief Without Evidence. Michael Martin: A Critique of Plantinga''s Religious Epistemology. Louis Pojman: Faith Without Belief. Bibliography. Part VIII: SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND EVOLUTION. Richard Dawkins: Science and Religion. Duane Gish: Creation Science Versus the Theory of Evolution. David K

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