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Philosophy of religion / John H. Hick.

By: Series: Publication details: Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice Hall, c1990.Edition: 4th edDescription: ix, 148 p. ; pbk ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0136626289
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 200.1/HIC
Contents:
Contents : Introduction. What is the philosophy of religion?
Ch 1 : The Judaic-Christian concept of God. Monotheism -- Infinite, self-existent -- Creator -- Personal -- Loving, good -- Holy.
Ch 2 : Arguments for the existence of God. The ontological argument -- The first cause-and cosmological arguments -- The design (or teleological) argument -- Theism and probability -- The moral argument.
Ch 3 : Arguments against the existence of God. The sociological theory of religion -- The Freudian theory of religion -- The challenge of modern science.
Ch 4 : The problem of evil. The problem -- The Augustinian theodicy -- The Irenaeon theodicy -- Process theodicy.
Ch 5 : Revelation and faith. The propositional view of revelation and faith -- Voluntarist theories of faith -- Tillich's conception of faith as ultimate concern -- The nonpropositional view of revelation and faith.
Ch 6 : Evidentialism, foundationalism and rational belief. The limits of proof -- Rational belief without proofs -- Basic religious beliefs -- The foundational religious belief -- The risk of belief.
Ch 7 : Problems of religious language. The pecularity of religious language -- The doctrine of analogy (Aquinas) -- Religious statements as symbolic (Tillich) -- Incarnation and the problem of meaning -- Religious language as noncognitive -- Braithwaite's noncognitive theory -- The language-game theory..
Ch 8 : The problem of verification. The question of verifyability -- The idea of exchatological verification -- Some difficulties and complications -- "Exists", "fact" and "real".
Ch 9 : The conflicting truth claims of different religions. Many faiths, all claiming to be true -- Critique of the concept of "a religion" -- Toward a possible solution -- A philosophical framework of a religious pluralism.
Ch 10 : Human destiny : immortality and resurrection. The immortality of the soul -- The re-creation of the psychophysical person -- Does parapsychology help? -- Resuscitation cases.
Ch 11 : Human destiny : karma and reincarnation. The popular conceptl -- The vedantic concept -- The demythologized interpretation.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 143) and index.

Contents : Introduction. What is the philosophy of religion?

Ch 1 : The Judaic-Christian concept of God. Monotheism -- Infinite, self-existent -- Creator -- Personal -- Loving, good -- Holy.

Ch 2 : Arguments for the existence of God. The ontological argument -- The first cause-and cosmological arguments -- The design (or teleological) argument -- Theism and probability -- The moral argument.

Ch 3 : Arguments against the existence of God. The sociological theory of religion -- The Freudian theory of religion -- The challenge of modern science.

Ch 4 : The problem of evil. The problem -- The Augustinian theodicy -- The Irenaeon theodicy -- Process theodicy.

Ch 5 : Revelation and faith. The propositional view of revelation and faith -- Voluntarist theories of faith -- Tillich's conception of faith as ultimate concern -- The nonpropositional view of revelation and faith.

Ch 6 : Evidentialism, foundationalism and rational belief. The limits of proof -- Rational belief without proofs -- Basic religious beliefs -- The foundational religious belief -- The risk of belief.

Ch 7 : Problems of religious language. The pecularity of religious language -- The doctrine of analogy (Aquinas) -- Religious statements as symbolic (Tillich) -- Incarnation and the problem of meaning -- Religious language as noncognitive -- Braithwaite's noncognitive theory -- The language-game theory..

Ch 8 : The problem of verification. The question of verifyability -- The idea of exchatological verification -- Some difficulties and complications -- "Exists", "fact" and "real".

Ch 9 : The conflicting truth claims of different religions. Many faiths, all claiming to be true -- Critique of the concept of "a religion" -- Toward a possible solution -- A philosophical framework of a religious pluralism.

Ch 10 : Human destiny : immortality and resurrection. The immortality of the soul -- The re-creation of the psychophysical person -- Does parapsychology help? -- Resuscitation cases.

Ch 11 : Human destiny : karma and reincarnation. The popular conceptl -- The vedantic concept -- The demythologized interpretation.

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