constructing a world view Hasker, William 1935- creator text bibliography ilu Downers Grove, IL InterVarsity Press c1983 1983 monographic eng

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132 p. ; pbk ; 21 cm. 1. Introducing metaphysics: Metaphysical questions -- Answering metaphysical questions -- Evaluating metaphysical theories -- 2. Freedom and necessity: Are we really free? -- Compatibilism: a way out? -- Determinism: arguments and objections -- Free will: arguments and objections -- Freedom, necessity and God -- 3. Minds and bodies: The mystery of mind and body -- Avoiding the problem: behaviorism and idealism -- Dualism -- Materialism -- Emergentism -- Eternal life: immortality or resurrection? -- 4. The World: What is the real nature of the world? -- The idealist rejection of realism -- The scientific critique of realism -- Consequences of scientific realism -- The origin of the world -- 5. God and the world: God and metaphysics -- Naturalism: the world without God -- Pantheism: God as identical with the world -- Panentheism: God as including the world -- Theism: God as Creator of the world -- Epilog: a Christian metaphysic?. William Hasker. Bibliography: p. [130]-132. Metaphysics 110/HAS 0877843414 (pbk.) : 83010693 DLC 830513 20130320143400.0 4241324