Hick, John 1922-2012 creator text bibliography nju Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice Hall c1990 1990 4th ed. monographic eng

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ix, 148 p. ; pbk ; 23 cm. 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. John H. Hick. Includes bibliographical references (p. 143) and index. Religion Philosophy 200.1/HIC 0136626289 89036841 DLC 890628 20120303111107.0 2454491