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100	1		_aHick, John, _d1922-2012.
245	1	0	_aPhilosophy of religion / _cJohn H. Hick.
250			_a4th ed.
260			_aEnglewood Cliffs, NJ : _bPrentice Hall, _cc1990.
300			_aix, 148 p. ; _bpbk ; _c23 cm.
490	1		_aPrentice Hall foundations of philosophy series
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 143) and index.
505			_aContents : Introduction. What is the philosophy of religion?
505			_aCh 1 : The Judaic-Christian concept of God. Monotheism -- Infinite, self-existent -- Creator -- Personal -- Loving, good -- Holy.
505			_aCh 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.
505			_aCh 3 : Arguments against the existence of God. The sociological theory of religion -- The Freudian theory of religion -- The challenge of modern science.
505			_aCh 4 : The problem of evil. The problem -- The Augustinian theodicy -- The Irenaeon theodicy -- Process theodicy.
505			_aCh 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.
505			_aCh 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.
505			_aCh 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..
505			_aCh 8 : The problem of verification. The question of verifyability -- The idea of exchatological verification -- Some difficulties and complications -- "Exists", "fact" and "real".
505			_aCh 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.
505			_aCh 10 : Human destiny : immortality and resurrection. The immortality of the soul -- The re-creation of the psychophysical person -- Does parapsychology help? -- Resuscitation cases.
505			_aCh 11 : Human destiny : karma and reincarnation. The popular conceptl -- The vedantic concept -- The demythologized interpretation.
650		0	_aReligion _xPhilosophy.
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