Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Religion

Oppy, Graham Robert.

Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Religion The History of Western Philosophy of Religion, Volume 5. [electronic resource] : - Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014. - 1 online resource (366 p.)

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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Editorial Introduction; Contributors; 1. Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Religion: An Introduction; 2. William James; 3. Henri Bergson; 4. John Dewey; 5. Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne; 6. Bertrand Russell; 7. Max Scheler; 8. Martin Buber; 9. Jacques Maritain; 10. Karl Jaspers; 11. Paul Tillich; 12. Karl Barth; 13. Ludwig Wittgenstein; 14. Martin Heidegger; 15. Emmanuel Levinas; 16. Simone Weil; 17. A. J. Ayer; 18. William P. Alston; 19. John Hick; 20. Mary Daly; 21. Jacques Derrida; 22. Alvin Plantinga 23. Richard Swinburne24. Late-Twentieth-Century Atheism; Chronology; Bibliography; Index

The twentieth century saw religion challenged by the rise of science and secularism, a confrontation which resulted in an astonishingly diverse range of philosophical views about religion and religious belief. Many of the major philosophers of the twentieth century - James, Bergson, Russell, Wittgenstein, Ayer, Heidegger, and Derrida - significantly engaged with religious thought. Idiosyncratic thinkers, such as Whitehead, Levinas and Weil, further contributed to the extraordinary diversity of philosophical investigation of religion across the century. In their turn, leading theologians an.

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Religion--Philosophy--History--20th century.
RELIGION / Philosophy


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