Philosophy of Religion An Introduction
- London Bloomsbury 2010
- 394p
includes index and biblioraphy
Part 1 PRELIMINARIES New Ways of Thinking Philosophy-The Basics Problems of Knowledge and Knowing God Part II THE ORIGIN OF THE DEBATES Plato and the Doctrine of the Forms Aristotle Part III THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD Concepts of God The Divine Attributes God`s Knowledge and God`s Goodness God as Creator Part IV ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD Ontological Arguments St Thomas Aquinas and the Cosmological Argument I The Cosmological Argument II - God as Explanation The Teleological (Design) Argument The Moral Argument PartV ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE EXISTENCE OF GOD The Problem of Evil I - St Augustine The Problem of Evil II - Irenaean Theodicy and Swinburne Other Theodicies The Challenge of Modern Science Darwin`s Black Box and Irreducible Complexity The Problem of the Multiplicity of Faiths Part VI RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE Verification and Meaning The Falsification Debate Via Negativa, Analogy, Metaphor, Symbol and Myth Language Games Part VII PROBLEMS OF KNOWLEDGE Realism, Anti-Realism and Non-Realism Reformed Epistemology and Foundationalism Part VIII RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE Personal Religious Experience Revelation and Scripture Miracles Morality and Religion Part IX BODY, SOUL AND THE AFTERLIFE Body and Soul Life After Death