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100 1 _aStewart, David.
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245 1 0 _aExploring the philosophy of religion /
_cDavid Stewart
250 _a5th ed.
260 _aUpper Saddle River, N.J. :
_bPrentice Hall,
_cc2001
300 _axii, 351 p. ;
_c23 cm.
505 0 _aCh. 5 The Problem of Evil. Introduction: God and Evil. The "Vale of Soul-Making" Theodicy . Evil and the God ofLove / John Hick. Theodicy in Process Thought . God in Process / David Ray Griffin. Karma and Evil. Karma in Hindu Thought / Wendy Doniger. A Limited God. The Divine Attributes, John Stuart Mill. Retrospective. Additional Readings. - Ch. 6 Faith and Reason. Introduction: Opinion, Belief, and Knowledge. Belief and Falsification. The Falsification Debate / Antony Flew, R. M. Hare, Basil Mitchell. Will and Belief. The Will to Believe, William James. The Leap of Faith. Objective and Subjective Reflection / Soren Kierkegaard. Faith as Ultimate Concern. What Faith Is, Paul Tillich. Retrospective. Additional Readings. - Ch. 7. Religious Language. Introduction: Religion and Language. The Verification of Religious Language. Discussion on Religious Language / A. J. Ayer, F. C. Copleston. Models for Theological Discourse Talking of God: Models, Ancient and Modern / Ian Ramsey. The Metaphorical Use of Language. The Metaphorical Process / Paul Ricoeur. Religious Language and Gender. The Female Nature of God / Rosemary Ruether. Discussion on Religious Language / A. J. Ayer, F. C. Copleston. Models for Theological Discourse Talking of God: Models, Ancient and Modern / Ian Ramsey. The Metaphorical Use of Language. The Metaphorical Process / Paul Ricoeur. Religious Language and Gender. The Female Nature of God / Rosemary Ruether. - Retrospective. - Additional readings. - Biographical summaries.- Glossary. - Index
505 0 _aPreface. - Ch. 1. The Varieties of Religious Experience. Introduction : Philosophy and Religion Mystical Experience. Mysticism / William James. The Experience of the Holy. The Idea of the Holy / Rudolf Otto. The Eternal Thou. I and Thou / Martin Buber. Religious Pluralsim. The Pluralistic Hypothesis, John Hick. Retrospecive. Additional Readings. - Ch. 2 Religion and Life. Religion and Life. Introduction: Religion and Life. Life's Goal Is to Obey God's Will. Moral Obligation / William Paley. Life's Goal Is to Achieve Greatness. The Joyful Wisdom / Friedrich Nietzsche. To Know God Is to Live A Confession / Leo Tolstoy. A World Without God. Reality and God / Konstantin Kolenda. Retrospective. Additional Readings. - Ch. 3. Religion and Human Destiny. Introduction: Religion and Death. The Immorality of the Soul / Phaedo, Plato. The Finality of Death. Letter to Menoeceus, Epicurus. The Hope for Resurrection. I Corinthians 15, St. Paul. Death in Buddhism. The Doctrine of No-Soul: Anatta / Walpola Rahula. Retrospective. Additional Readings. - Ch. 4. Arguments for God's Existence. Introduction: The Existence of God. The Ontological Argument. The Most Perfect Being / Rene Descartes. The Cosmological Arguments. The Argument from Contingency / Richard Taylor. The Design Argument. Natural Theology, William Paley. The Moral Argument. God as a Postulate of Practical Reason, Immanuel Kant. Retrospective. -
520 _aExploring the Pholosophy of Religion organizes 28 readings around 7 major themes, beginning with religion experience then transitioning to the relationship of religion to life, to human destiny, and then to the thorny issues of arguments for God's existence and the problem of evil. The concluding two sections analyze the relationship between faith and reason and the nature of religious language. - Back cover
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