TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hick,John
TI  - Philosophy of religion
T2  - Prentice Hall foundations of philosophy series
SN  - 0136626289
U1  - 200.1/HIC 
PY  - 1990///
CY  - Englewood Cliffs, NJ
PB  - Prentice Hall
KW  - Religion
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - 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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