TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kachappilly, Kurian
AU  - Kachappilly,Kurian
TI  - God-Talk Reconstructed:  An Introduction to Philosophy of God
SN  - 8186861955   
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Bangalore
PB  - Dharmaram Publications
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; Chapter One  Meaning and Reference of the Word `God`  A.	Meanings of Meaning	  1.	Meaning and reference                      2.	Indirect and direct reference           3.	Significance of direct reference	16  B.	Faith and Reason as two Modes of God-talk	18  1.	Critique of reason as capable of reaching God	20  2.	Between rigorous proofs and complete non-rationality 24  3.	`Both -And`: modal language and model language	27  Chapter Two .  Rationality for God`s Existence     A. The Ontological Argument of Anselm	34  1.	Anselm`s argument in brief            `	35  2.	Argument in Proslogion II	36  3.	Gannilo`s Liber pro insipiente	37,  4.	Argument in Proslogion III	39  5.	St. Thomas` critique of the ontological argument	41  6.	Descartes` defence in the Meditations	42  7.	Kant`s objections to the ontological argument	44  8.	Hartshorne`s resolution	48  B.	The Cosmological Arguments of Thomas Aquinas	52  1.	Argument from the existence of motion	54  2.	The phenomenon of motion/change	55  3   .    Whatever is moved is moved by another	57  4. Impossibility of infinite series	59  {0 5. The `First Mover` exists	aobOl`	60  6. And this everyone understands to be `God`	61  C.	A Modern Version of the Cosmological Argument	63  1.	Samuel Clark`s argument in brief	64  2.	Explanation of Clarke`s argument	65  3.	The first premise	67  4.	The second premise	68  5.	The principle of sufficient reason	71  D.	The Teleological Argument of William Paley	73  "`   1. Paley`s argument in brief	74  2. Paley`s explanation of the argument	75    3. Some objections to Paley`s argument          4. Application of the argument	77  E.	` Chapter Three Challenges to the Existence of God  A.	Limiting the Subject: Theodicy 84  1. Positing the`problem of evil`	  B.	Classical/Traditional Theodicy	89    1.	Evil as privation of good   2.	Free will defence theory 	                      3. The principle of plenitude       4. The aesthetic view	  C.	Process/Postmodern Theodicy	106  1.	Logical considerations	108  a)	St. Thomas Aquinas	108  b)	Rene Descartes	109  c)	Richard Swinburne	109  d)	Logical conclusions	110  2.	Metaphysical considerations	111  a)	`To be is to be powerful`	112  b)	Absolute power is self-destructive	114.  c)	`None greater can be conceived`	116  d)	Metaphysics of freedom	118  3.	Persuasive power of God	120  a)	Critique of process conception	122  b)	Redefining omnipotence of God	124  c)	God as `empowering love`	127
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