Ten Essential Texts in the Philosophy of Religion

Classics and Contemporary Issues
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-19-517100-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 528 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 904 g

Ten of the most widely read works on philosophy of religion are collected in this volume. Structured around these classic texts, this volume includes a number of essays to provide students with a sense of the way philosophers think today about the central issues of philosophy of religion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cahn, Steven M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Table of Contents

- Acknowledgments

- Introduction

- 1. Euthyphro, Plato

- God and Moral Autonomy, James Rachels

- 2. The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius

- Divine Omniscience and Voluntary Action, Nelson Pike

- God Everlasting, Nicholas Wolterstorff

- 3. Proslogion, Anselm; On Behalf of the Fool, Gaunilo; Reply to Gaunilo, Anselm

- The Impossibility of an Ontological Proof of the Existence of God, Immanuel Kant

- The Ontological Argument, William L. Rowe

- Some Puzzles Concerning Omnipotence, George Mavrodes

- The Logic of Omnipotence, Harry G. Frankfurt

- God and Forgiveness, Anne C. Minas

- 4. Summa Theologiae (I, 1, 2), Thomas Aquinas

- Aquinas' Five Proofs, F.C. Copleston

- The Cosmological Argument: A Defense, Richard Taylor

- The Cosmological Argument: A Critique, William L. Rowe

- 5. Of Miracles, David Hume

- Miracles, Richard Swinburne

- 6. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, David Hume

- The Teleological Argument, William Paley

- Hume on Evil, Nelson Pike

- The Problem of Evil, John H. Hick

- The Problem of Goodness, Steven M. Cahn

- The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism, William L. Rowe

- 7. Concluding Unscientific Postscript (Selection), Søren Kierkegaard

- Kierkegaard's Arguments Against Objective Reasoning in Religion, Robert Merrihew Adams

- Faith, Richard Taylor

- Faith and Reason, Michael Scriven

- 8. The Will to Believe, William James

- The Wager, Blaise Pascal

- Pascal's Wager: A Critique, Simon Blackburn

- The Ethics of Belief, W.K. Clifford

- William James and the Will to Believe, Michael Martin

- The Reformed Objection to Natural Theology, Alvin Plantinga

- Religious Beliefs and Basic Beliefs, Michael Martin

- 9. The Varieties of Religious Experience (XVI, XVII), William James

- A Religious Way of Knowing, C.B. Martin

- Religious Experience as Perception of God, William Alston

- Religious Pluralism and Salvation, John H. Hick

- 10. Theology and Falsification, Antony Flew, R.M. Hare, and Basil Mitchell

- The Problem of Verification, John H. Hick

- Life After Death, Terence Penelhum

- The Hiddenness of God, Robert McKim

- Religion Versus the Religious, John Dewey