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Philosophy of religion : classic and contemporary readings / edited and introduced by Michael Palmer.

Contributor(s): Palmer, Michael, 1945-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: viii, 605 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780800697952 (alk. paper); 0800697952 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Religion -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 210 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The attributes of God -- The omnipotence of God / Thomas Aquinas -- Some puzzles concerning omnipotence / George Mavrodes -- A disproof of God's existence / J.N. Findlay -- Omnipotence as a theological mistake / Charles Hartshorne -- Incompatible-properties arguments / Theodore M. Drange -- The paradox of Eden / Richard R. LaCroix -- Arguments for God's existence -- The ontological argument / Anselm of Canterbury -- On behalf of the fool / Guanilo of Marmoutier -- The impossibility of an ontological proof / Immanuel Kant -- The five ways / Thomas Aquinas -- Aquinas' Five ways / F.C. Copleston -- Criticism of the cosmological argument / J.L. Mackie -- The watch and the watchmaker / William Paley -- The argument from analogy / David Hume -- Why there is almost certainly no god / Richard Dawkins -- An argument from design / Robert Hambourger -- The irrelevance of proofs for God's existence / Steven M. Cahn -- The problem of evil -- Evil and the privation of good / Augustine of Hippo -- The best of all possible worlds / Gottfried Leibniz -- The evidence of evil / David Hume -- The perfectibility of man / Irenaeus -- Evil and omnipotence / J.L. Mackie -- The free-will defense / Alvin Plantinga -- An Irenaean theodicy / John Hick -- The evidential problem of evil / William Rowe -- The argument from miracles -- Of miracles / David Hume -- Hume's argument : miracles and testimony / J.L. Mackie -- Miracle and paradox / Alastair McKinnon -- Hume's Critique of the miraculous / Antony Flew -- Miracles and historical evidence / Richard Swinburne -- How the existence of God explains miracles / Richard Swinburne -- The contingency definition of miracles / R.F. Holland -- Revelation and miracle / Paul Tillich -- Morality and God -- The euthyphro dilemma / Plato -- Conscience as the voice of God / John Henry Newman -- Ethics without God / Kai Nielson -- Divine commands and a loving God / Robert Adams -- The ethics of divine command / A.C. Grayling -- Life after death -- The theory of immortality / Plato -- Of the immorality of the soul / David Hume -- Do we survive death? / Bertrand Russell -- Immortality and the resurrection replica / John Hick -- The possibility of resurrection / Peter van Inwagen -- The origin of religious ideas / Sigmund Freud -- Religious language (1) : forms of religious language -- The negative attributes of God / Moses Maimonides -- A critique of equivocal predication / John Stuart Mill -- The doctrine of analogy / Thomas Aquinas -- The religious symbol / Paul Tillich -- Models of God / Ian Ramsey -- An empiricist's view of religious belief / R.B. Braithwaite -- Beyond God the Father / Mary Daly -- Religious language (2) : linguistic analysis and verification / Critique of theology / A.J. Ayer -- Theology and falsification / Antony Flew, R.M. Hare, and Basil Mitchell -- Eschatological verification / John Hick -- On religious belief / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Prayer and verification / D.Z. Phillips -- Reason and belief -- The ethics of belief / W.K. Clifford -- The will to believe / William James -- Is belief in God properly basic? / Alvin Plantinga -- Is religious belief rational? / William Alston -- Faith and foundationalism / Michael Martin -- Epistemological egoism and proper basicality / Gary Gutting -- The diversity of world religions -- A defense of religious exclusivism / Alvin Plantinga -- Christianity and the non-Christian religions / Karl Rahner -- Religious pluralism / John Hick -- Religious diversity / Keith Ward -- Pluralism versus relativism / Joseph Runzo.

"Published in collaboration with The Lutterworth Press, Cambridge. Copyright Michael Palmer, 2008."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The attributes of God -- The omnipotence of God / Thomas Aquinas -- Some puzzles concerning omnipotence / George Mavrodes -- A disproof of God's existence / J.N. Findlay -- Omnipotence as a theological mistake / Charles Hartshorne -- Incompatible-properties arguments / Theodore M. Drange -- The paradox of Eden / Richard R. LaCroix -- Arguments for God's existence -- The ontological argument / Anselm of Canterbury -- On behalf of the fool / Guanilo of Marmoutier -- The impossibility of an ontological proof / Immanuel Kant -- The five ways / Thomas Aquinas -- Aquinas' Five ways / F.C. Copleston -- Criticism of the cosmological argument / J.L. Mackie -- The watch and the watchmaker / William Paley -- The argument from analogy / David Hume -- Why there is almost certainly no god / Richard Dawkins -- An argument from design / Robert Hambourger -- The irrelevance of proofs for God's existence / Steven M. Cahn -- The problem of evil -- Evil and the privation of good / Augustine of Hippo -- The best of all possible worlds / Gottfried Leibniz -- The evidence of evil / David Hume -- The perfectibility of man / Irenaeus -- Evil and omnipotence / J.L. Mackie -- The free-will defense / Alvin Plantinga -- An Irenaean theodicy / John Hick -- The evidential problem of evil / William Rowe -- The argument from miracles -- Of miracles / David Hume -- Hume's argument : miracles and testimony / J.L. Mackie -- Miracle and paradox / Alastair McKinnon -- Hume's Critique of the miraculous / Antony Flew -- Miracles and historical evidence / Richard Swinburne -- How the existence of God explains miracles / Richard Swinburne -- The contingency definition of miracles / R.F. Holland -- Revelation and miracle / Paul Tillich -- Morality and God -- The euthyphro dilemma / Plato -- Conscience as the voice of God / John Henry Newman -- Ethics without God / Kai Nielson -- Divine commands and a loving God / Robert Adams -- The ethics of divine command / A.C. Grayling -- Life after death -- The theory of immortality / Plato -- Of the immorality of the soul / David Hume -- Do we survive death? / Bertrand Russell -- Immortality and the resurrection replica / John Hick -- The possibility of resurrection / Peter van Inwagen -- The origin of religious ideas / Sigmund Freud -- Religious language (1) : forms of religious language -- The negative attributes of God / Moses Maimonides -- A critique of equivocal predication / John Stuart Mill -- The doctrine of analogy / Thomas Aquinas -- The religious symbol / Paul Tillich -- Models of God / Ian Ramsey -- An empiricist's view of religious belief / R.B. Braithwaite -- Beyond God the Father / Mary Daly -- Religious language (2) : linguistic analysis and verification / Critique of theology / A.J. Ayer -- Theology and falsification / Antony Flew, R.M. Hare, and Basil Mitchell -- Eschatological verification / John Hick -- On religious belief / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Prayer and verification / D.Z. Phillips -- Reason and belief -- The ethics of belief / W.K. Clifford -- The will to believe / William James -- Is belief in God properly basic? / Alvin Plantinga -- Is religious belief rational? / William Alston -- Faith and foundationalism / Michael Martin -- Epistemological egoism and proper basicality / Gary Gutting -- The diversity of world religions -- A defense of religious exclusivism / Alvin Plantinga -- Christianity and the non-Christian religions / Karl Rahner -- Religious pluralism / John Hick -- Religious diversity / Keith Ward -- Pluralism versus relativism / Joseph Runzo.

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