03032pam a2200397 a 4500 2454491 AU-EpEBC 20120303111107.0 890628s1990 nju b 001 0 eng 89036841 0136626289 DLC DLC DLC NEMB 200.1/HIC EW Hick, John, 1922-2012. Philosophy of religion / John H. Hick. 4th ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice Hall, c1990. ix, 148 p. ; pbk ; 23 cm. Prentice Hall foundations of philosophy series 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. Religion Philosophy. ddc 12308 12308 0 0 ddc 0 0 200 Religion MAIN MAIN OS 2012-03-03 Donated by Valentin Vasilev, 2009-2011. 10.00 1 200.1/HIC 09575 2014-11-12 00:00:00 2012-10-25 1 50.00 2012-03-03 AM