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" Exploring philosophy of religion : "
edited by Steven M. Cahn.
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BL
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873601
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Exploring philosophy of religion : : an introductory anthology /\ edited by Steven M. Cahn.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2009.
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viii, 375 pages ;; 24 cm
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019534085X
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: 9780195340853
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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A reply to Schlesinger / Jeremy Gwiazda -- Theism and modern science / Nicholas Everitt -- Negative attributes / Moses Maimonides -- The use of analogy / Thomas Aquinas -- The inadequacy of analogy / F.C. Copleston -- Positive attributes / Levi Gersonides -- Experience and metaphor / Janet Martin Soskice -- Metaphors without meaning / Paul Edwards -- Of miracles / David Hume -- On miracles / Paul J. Dietl -- Mysticism / William James -- Perceiving God / William Alston -- Perceiving God : a critique / William L. Rowe -- The wager / Blaise Pascal -- Pascal's wager : a critique / Simon Blackburn -- The ethics of belief / W.K. Clifford -- The will to believe / William James -- The will to believe : a critique / Nicholas Everitt -- Belief without argument / Alvin Plantinga -- Belief without argument : a critique / Michael Martin -- Faith / Richard Taylor -- Faith and reason / Michael Scriven -- Theology and falsification / Antony Flew, R.M. Hare, and Basil Mitchell -- The hiddenness of God / Robert McKim -- Resurrection / John H. Hick -- Life after death / Terence Penelhum -- Do we need immortality? / Grace M. Jantzen -- The dimensions of religion / Ninian Smart -- Religious pluralism and salvation / John H. Hick -- A defense of religious exclusivism / Alvin Plantinga -- Religion versus the religious / John Dewey -- Appendix : God, reason, and religion / Steven M. Cahn.
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God and goodness / James Rachels -- God's omnipotence / George Mavrodes -- God's foreknowledge and free will / Augustine -- God's omniscience and contingent events / Levi Gersonides -- Does God know the future? / Steven M. Cahn -- Does God change? / William Hasker -- God and forgiveness / Anne C. Minas -- God and the concept of worship / James Rachels -- The existence of God -- The ontological argument / Anselm and Gaunilo -- The ontological argument : a restatement / René Descartes -- The ontological argument : a critique / Immanuel Kant -- The ontological argument : an assessment / John H. Hick -- The five ways / Thomas Aquinas -- The cosmological argument / Richard Taylor -- The cosmological argument : an assessment / John H. Hick -- The argument to design / William Paley -- The argument to design and the problem of evil / David Hume -- The problem of evil / John H. Hick -- A defense of atheism / Ernest Nagel -- Why God allows evil / Richard Swinburne -- Suffering and evil / George N. Schlesinger.
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| Abstract
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Featuring 52 classic and contemporary readings, this is a topically-organized anthology that presents broad coverage of seven major areas in the philosophy of religion - the concept of God, the existence of God, religious language, miracles and mysticism, belief in God, resurrection and immortality, and religious pluralism.
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Religion-- Philosophy.
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Religion-- Philosophy.
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Religionsphilosophie.
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Religionsphilosophie.
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| Dewey Classification
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210
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BL51.E97 2009
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08.37bcl
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Cahn, Steven M.
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