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For one-quarter/semester Philosophy of Religion courses.   Exploring the Philosophy of Religion combines the best features of a text and a reader by offering clear analysis coupled with important primary-source readings.   Professor David Stewart called upon his 32 years of teaching experience to introduce students to the important study of faith and reason. Beginning students often find primary sources alone too difficult so this text offers primary source materials by a variety of significant philosophers–including a balanced blend of classical and contemporary authors–but the materials are supported by clearly written introductions, which better prepare students to understand the readings.

Table of Contents:
Preface Chapter One The Varieties of Religious Experience Introduction: Philosophy and Religion   Mystical Experience             Mysticism, William James   The Experience of the Holy             The Idea of the Holy, Rudolf Otto   Critique of Mysticism             The Core of Religion, Walter Kaufmann   Varieties of Religious Understanding             The Pluralistic Hypothesis, John Hick   Retrospective   Additional Sources   Chapter Two Religion and Life Introduction: Religion and Life   Life’s Goal Is to Obey God’s Will             Moral Obligation, William Paley   Life’s Goal Is to Achieve Greatness             The Joyful Wisdom, Friederich Nietzsche   Life Is Not Meaningful Without God             A Confession, Leo Tolstoy   Life Is Meaningful Without God             Ethics Without Religion, Kai Nielsen   Retrospective Additional Sources   Chapter Three Religion and Human Destiny   Introduction: Religion and Death   The Immortality of the Soul             Phaedo, Plato   The Finality of Death             Letter to Menoeceus, Epicurus   The Hope for Resurrection             1 Corinthians 15, St. Paul   Death in Buddhism             The Doctrine of No-Soul: Annata, Walpola Rahula   Retrospective Additional Sources   Chapter Four Arguments for God’s Existence   Introduction: The Existence of God   The Ontological Argument             The Most Perfect Being, René Descartes   The Cosmological Argument             The Kalam Cosmological Argument, William Lane Craig   The Design Argument             Natural Theology, William Paley   The Moral Argument             God as a Postulate of Practical Reason, Immanuel Kant   Retrospective Additional Sources   Chapter Five The Problem of Evil Introduction: God and Evil Philosophy and Evil             The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius   Theodicy in Process Thought God in Process, David Ray Griffin Karma and Evil             Karma in Hindu Thought, Wendy Doniger   The “Vale of Soul-Making Theodicy”             Evil and the God of Love, John Hick   Retrospective Additional Sources     Chapter Six Faith and Reason   Introduction: Opinion, Belief, Knowledge   Belief and Falsification             The Falsification Debate, Antony Flew, R. M. Hare, Basil Mitchell   Will and Belief             The Will to Believe, William James   No Rational Basis for Faith             Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, David Hume   The Leap of Faith             Objective and Subjective Reflection, Søren Kierkegaard   Retrospective Additional Sources   Chapter Seven Religious Language   Introduction: Religion and Language   The Verification of Religious Language             A Discussion on Religious Language, A. J. Ayer and F. C. Copleston   The Non-Literal Use of Language             On Analogy, St. Thomas Aquinas   Models for Theological Discourse             Talking of God: Models, Ancient and Modern, Ian Ramsey   Religious Language and Gender             The Female Nature of God, Rosemary Ruether   Retrospective Additional Sources   Biographical Summaries   Glossary   Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780131947238
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 384
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0131947230
  • Publisher Date: 07 Apr 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 431 gr


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