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245 00 a| Philosophy of religion :b| a guide and anthology /c| [edited by] Brian Davies.;

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505 0 a| PART I. PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS BELIEF -- 1. Faith and Reason in Harmony / Thomas Aquinas -- 2. The Ethics of Belief / W.K. Clifford -- 3. The Presumption of Atheism / Antony Flew -- 4. Religious Belief as 'Properly Basic' / Alvin Plantinga -- 5. Evidence and Religious Belief / Norman Kretzmann -- 6. Grammar and Religious Belief / D.Z. Phillips -- 7. The Groundlessness of Religious Belief / Norman Malcolm -- PART II. THE PROBLEM OF GOD-TALK -- 8. How Believers Find God-Talk Puzzling / Augustine of Hippo -- 9. God-Talk is Evidently Nonsense / A.J. Ayer -- 10. God-Talk is Not Evidently Nonsense / Richard Swinburne -- 11. 'Death by a Thousand Qualifications' / Antony Flew -- 12. One Way of Understanding God-Talk / Thomas Aquinas -- PART III. ARGUMENTS FOR GOD'S EXISTENCE -- Cosmological Arguments -- 13. A Concise Cosmological Argument from the Eleventh Century / Anselm of Canterbury -- 14. A Thirteenth-Century Cosmological Argument / Thomas Aquinas -- 15. A Fourteenth-Century Cosmological Argument / John Duns Scotus -- 16. A Seventeenth-Century Cosmological Argument / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- 17. A Modern Cosmological Argument / Herbert McCabe -- 18. Objections to Cosmological Arguments / Paul Edwards -- 19. More Objections to Cosmological Arguments / J.L. Mackie -- 20. Why is a Cause Always Necessary? / David Hume -- 21. 'Whatever Has a Beginning of Existence Must Have a Cause' / G.E.M. Anscombe -- 22. Can There be an Endless Regress of Causes? / James A. Sadowsky -- Design Arguments -- 23. Is the World Ruled by Providence? / Thomas Aquinas -- 24. An Especially Famous Design Argument / William Paley -- 25. We Cannot Know that the World is Designed by God A David Hume -- 26. The Limits of Design Arguments / Immanuel Kant -- 27. God / Regularity / and David Hume / R.G. Swinburne -- 28. Can Design Arguments be Defended Today? / Robert Hambourger -- Ontological Arguments -- 29. Anselm Argues that God Cannot be Thought Not to Exist / Anselm of Canterbury -- 30. Gaunilo Argues that Anselm is Wrong / Gaunilo of Marmoutiers -- 31. Anselm Replies to Gaunilo / Anselm of Canterbury -- 32. Descartes Defends an Ontological Argument / Rene Descartes -- 33. Descartes Replies to Critics / Pierre Gassendi / Johannes Caterus / Rene Descartes -- 34. A Classic Repudiation of Ontological Arguments / Immanuel Kant -- 35. A Contemporary Defense of Ontological Arguments / Alvin Plantinga -- God and Human Experience -- 36. Why 'Knowing God by Experience' is a Notion Open to Question / C.B. Martin -- 37. Can We Know God by Experience? / Peter Donovan -- 38. Why Should There Not Be Experience of God? / William P. Alston -- PART IV. WHAT IS GOD? -- Omnipotent -- 39. A Modern Discussion of Divine Omnipotence / Thomas V. Morris -- 40. Why Think of God as Omnipotent? / Thomas Aquinas -- 41. Miracles and Laws of Nature / Richard Swinburne -- 42. Why We Should Disbelieve in Miracles / David Hume -- Knowing -- 43. Why Ascribe Knowledge to God? / Thomas Aquinas -- 44. Omniscience and Human Freedom: a Classic Discussion / Boethius -- 45. Problems for the Notion of Divine Omniscience / Nelson Pike -- Eternal -- 46. Why Call God 'Eternal'? / Thomas Aquinas -- 47. God is 'Everlasting' / not 'Eternal' / Nicholas Wolterstorff -- 48. A Modern Defence of Divine Eternity / Eleonore Stump and Norman Kretzmann -- 49. A Different Modern Defense of Divine Eternity / Paul Helm -- Simple -- 50. A Classic Defense of Divine Simplicity / Thomas Aquinas -- 51. Problems with Divine Simplicity / Thomas V. Morris -- 52. A Modern Defense of Divine Simplicity / Brian Davies -- Part V. THE PROBLEM OF EVIL -- 53. Evil Shows that There is No God / J.L. Mackie -- 54. What is Evil? / Augustine of Hippo -- 55. Evil Does Not Show That There Is No God / Richard Swinburne -- 56. God / Evil / and Divine Responsibility / Herbert McCabe -- 57. God and Human Freedom / Thomas Aquinas -- Part VI. MORALITY AND RELIGION -- 58. God as a 'Postulate' of Sound Moral Thinking / Immanuel Kant -- 59. Why Morality Implies the Existence of God / H.P. Owen -- 60. Moral Thinking as Awareness of God / Illtyd Trethowan -- 61. Morality Does Not Imply the Existence of God / Kai Nielsen -- Part VII. PEOPLE AND LIFE AFTER DEATH -- 62. Philosophy and Life After Death: The Questions and the Options / Stephen T. Davis -- 63. Life After Death: An Ancient Greek View / Plato -- 64. Belief in Life After Death Comes from Emotion / not Reason / Bertrand Russell -- 65. What Must be True of Me if I Survive My Death? / Peter Geach.;

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Philosophy of religion : a guide and anthology / [edited by] Brian Davies.

Other author	Davies, Brian, 1951-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Description	xxiv, 754 pages ; 25 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Supplemental Content	Contributor biographical information
Supplemental Content	Publisher description
Subjects	Religion--Philosophy.

Contents	PART I. PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS BELIEF -- 1. Faith and Reason in Harmony / Thomas Aquinas -- 2. The Ethics of Belief / W.K. Clifford -- 3. The Presumption of Atheism / Antony Flew -- 4. Religious Belief as 'Properly Basic' / Alvin Plantinga -- 5. Evidence and Religious Belief / Norman Kretzmann -- 6. Grammar and Religious Belief / D.Z. Phillips -- 7. The Groundlessness of Religious Belief / Norman Malcolm -- PART II. THE PROBLEM OF GOD-TALK -- 8. How Believers Find God-Talk Puzzling / Augustine of Hippo -- 9. God-Talk is Evidently Nonsense / A.J. Ayer -- 10. God-Talk is Not Evidently Nonsense / Richard Swinburne -- 11. 'Death by a Thousand Qualifications' / Antony Flew -- 12. One Way of Understanding God-Talk / Thomas Aquinas -- PART III. ARGUMENTS FOR GOD'S EXISTENCE -- Cosmological Arguments -- 13. A Concise Cosmological Argument from the Eleventh Century / Anselm of Canterbury -- 14. A Thirteenth-Century Cosmological Argument / Thomas Aquinas -- 15. A Fourteenth-Century Cosmological Argument / John Duns Scotus -- 16. A Seventeenth-Century Cosmological Argument / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- 17. A Modern Cosmological Argument / Herbert McCabe -- 18. Objections to Cosmological Arguments / Paul Edwards -- 19. More Objections to Cosmological Arguments / J.L. Mackie -- 20. Why is a Cause Always Necessary? / David Hume -- 21. 'Whatever Has a Beginning of Existence Must Have a Cause' / G.E.M. Anscombe -- 22. Can There be an Endless Regress of Causes? / James A. Sadowsky -- Design Arguments -- 23. Is the World Ruled by Providence? / Thomas Aquinas -- 24. An Especially Famous Design Argument / William Paley -- 25. We Cannot Know that the World is Designed by God A David Hume -- 26. The Limits of Design Arguments / Immanuel Kant -- 27. God / Regularity / and David Hume / R.G. Swinburne -- 28. Can Design Arguments be Defended Today? / Robert Hambourger -- Ontological Arguments -- 29. Anselm Argues that God Cannot be Thought Not to Exist / Anselm of Canterbury -- 30. Gaunilo Argues that Anselm is Wrong / Gaunilo of Marmoutiers -- 31. Anselm Replies to Gaunilo / Anselm of Canterbury -- 32. Descartes Defends an Ontological Argument / Rene Descartes -- 33. Descartes Replies to Critics / Pierre Gassendi / Johannes Caterus / Rene Descartes -- 34. A Classic Repudiation of Ontological Arguments / Immanuel Kant -- 35. A Contemporary Defense of Ontological Arguments / Alvin Plantinga -- God and Human Experience -- 36. Why 'Knowing God by Experience' is a Notion Open to Question / C.B. Martin -- 37. Can We Know God by Experience? / Peter Donovan -- 38. Why Should There Not Be Experience of God? / William P. Alston -- PART IV. WHAT IS GOD? -- Omnipotent -- 39. A Modern Discussion of Divine Omnipotence / Thomas V. Morris -- 40. Why Think of God as Omnipotent? / Thomas Aquinas -- 41. Miracles and Laws of Nature / Richard Swinburne -- 42. Why We Should Disbelieve in Miracles / David Hume -- Knowing -- 43. Why Ascribe Knowledge to God? / Thomas Aquinas -- 44. Omniscience and Human Freedom: a Classic Discussion / Boethius -- 45. Problems for the Notion of Divine Omniscience / Nelson Pike -- Eternal -- 46. Why Call God 'Eternal'? / Thomas Aquinas -- 47. God is 'Everlasting' / not 'Eternal' / Nicholas Wolterstorff -- 48. A Modern Defence of Divine Eternity / Eleonore Stump and Norman Kretzmann -- 49. A Different Modern Defense of Divine Eternity / Paul Helm -- Simple -- 50. A Classic Defense of Divine Simplicity / Thomas Aquinas -- 51. Problems with Divine Simplicity / Thomas V. Morris -- 52. A Modern Defense of Divine Simplicity / Brian Davies -- Part V. THE PROBLEM OF EVIL -- 53. Evil Shows that There is No God / J.L. Mackie -- 54. What is Evil? / Augustine of Hippo -- 55. Evil Does Not Show That There Is No God / Richard Swinburne -- 56. God / Evil / and Divine Responsibility / Herbert McCabe -- 57. God and Human Freedom / Thomas Aquinas -- Part VI. MORALITY AND RELIGION -- 58. God as a 'Postulate' of Sound Moral Thinking / Immanuel Kant -- 59. Why Morality Implies the Existence of God / H.P. Owen -- 60. Moral Thinking as Awareness of God / Illtyd Trethowan -- 61. Morality Does Not Imply the Existence of God / Kai Nielsen -- Part VII. PEOPLE AND LIFE AFTER DEATH -- 62. Philosophy and Life After Death: The Questions and the Options / Stephen T. Davis -- 63. Life After Death: An Ancient Greek View / Plato -- 64. Belief in Life After Death Comes from Emotion / not Reason / Bertrand Russell -- 65. What Must be True of Me if I Survive My Death? / Peter Geach.
Summary	Both an anthology and commentary, this text presents a self-contained introduction to the philosophy of religion. Readings focus on questions which have preoccupied Western philosophers when thinking about religion.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	00038536
ISBN	019875194X
ISBN	9780198751946
ISBN	(pbk.)
Standard identifier#	9780198751946

Philosophy of religion : a guide and anthology / [edited by] Brian Davies.

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