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Arguing About Religion Kevin Timpe (Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, Idaho, USA)

Arguing About Religion By Kevin Timpe (Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, Idaho, USA)

Arguing About Religion by Kevin Timpe (Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, Idaho, USA)

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Presents readings from various philosophers of religion, covering a range of issues. This book includes excerpts from works by Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins, in order to introduce the philosophical issues in a way that demonstrates their relevance to everyday life and sets them in the context of contemporary cultural discourse.

Arguing About Religion Summary

Arguing About Religion by Kevin Timpe (Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, Idaho, USA)

Arguing About Religion is an ideal collection for students interested in contemporary philosophy of religion and related disciplines. This volume brings together primary readings from over 40 of the world's leading philosophers of religion, covering a broad range of issues. Set alongside these works of academic philosophy are excerpts from controversial popular works by Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins, in order to introduce the philosophical issues in a way that demonstrates their relevance to everyday life and sets them in the context of contemporary cultural discourse.

The volume is divided into 6 parts, helping the student get to grips with classic and core arguments. Topics covered include:

  • methodological issues in philosophy of religion

  • God's nature and existence

  • evil and divine hiddenness

  • providence and interaction

  • the afterlife

  • religion and contemporary life

Featuring lucid general and section introductions and a glossary by volume editor Kevin Timpe, Arguing About Religion is an ideal starting point for students coming to philosophy of religion for the first time.

About Kevin Timpe (Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, Idaho, USA)

Kevin Timpe is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego. He is the author of Free Will: Sourcehood and Its Alternatives, and the editor of Metaphysics and God. His articles have appeared in Philosophical Studies, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly, Faith and Philosophy, and Religious Studies. He also serves as the philosophy of religion editor for the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Table of Contents

I. Methodological Issues in Philosophy of Religion

  2. Norman Kretzmann, The Nature of Natural Theology

  4. Scott MacDonald, What is Philosophical Theology?

  6. Al Plantinga, The Reformed Objection to Natural Theology

  8. Richard Swinburne, Rational Religious Belief

  10. John Hick, Religious Pluralism and Salvation

  12. Keith Ward, Truth and the Diversity of Religions

  14. Timothy O'Connor, Religious Pluralism

  15. II. God's Nature and Existence

  16. Peter van Inwagen, Necessary Existence: The Ontological Argument

  18. Alexander Pruss Some Recent Work on the Cosmological Argument

  20. Wes Morriston, A Critical Examination of the Kalam Cosmological Argument

  22. Robin Collins, A Scientific Argument for the Existence of God: The Fine-Tuning Design Argument

  24. Elliot Sober, Design Arguments

  26. Louis Pojman, A Critique of the Argument from Religious Experience

  28. C. Stephen Layman, God and the Moral Order

  29. III. Evil and Divine Hiddenness

  30. Peter van Inwagen, The Argument from Evil

  32. Whitley Kaufman, Karma, Rebirth, and the Problem of Evil

  34. Richard Swinburne, Natural Evil and the Possibility of Knowledge

  36. William Rowe, The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism

  38. William Alston, The Inductive Argument from Evil and the Human Cognitive Condition

  40. Peter van Inwagen, The Hiddenness of God

  42. Michael Murray, Coercion and the Hiddenness of God

  44. Robert Lovering, Divine Hiddenness and Inculpable Ignorance

  45. IV. Providence and Interaction

  46. Derk Pereboom, Free Will, Evil, and Divine Providence

  48. William Lane Craig, The Middle-Knowledge View

  50. William Hasker, The Openness of God

  52. John Sanders, Why Simple Foreknowledge Offers No More Providential Control than the Openness of God

  54. David Hunt, The Providential Advantage of Divine Foreknowledge

  56. Norman Kretzmann, Why Would God Create Anything at All?

  58. Eleonore Stump, Petitionary Prayer

  60. Kevin Timpe, Prayer for the Past

  61. V. The Afterlife

  62. Kevin Corcoran, Dualism, Materialism, and the Problem of Postmortem Survival

  64. Lynne Rudder Baker, Persons and the Metaphysics of Resurrection

  66. Roger Ames, Death as Transformation in Classical Daoism

  68. David Lewis, Divine Evil

  70. Thomas Talbott, The Doctrine of Everlasting Punishment

  72. Eleonore Stump, Dante's Hell, Aquinas's Moral Theory and the Love of God

  74. Sennett, James F. Is There Freedom in Heaven?

  75. VI. Religion and Contemporary Life

  76. Daniel Dennett, selection from Breaking the Spell

  78. Richard Dawkins, selection from The God Delusion

  80. Alister McGrath, selection from Dawkins' God

  82. Phillip Kitcher, Born-Again Creationism

  84. Phillip Johnson, Evolution as Dogma: The Establishment of Naturalism

  86. Robert Pennock, Why Creationism Should Not be Taught in the Public Schools

  88. Alvin Plantinga, Creation and Evolution: A Modest Proposal

  90. Paul Weithman, Theism, Law, and Politics

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NPB9780415988612
9780415988612
0415988616
Arguing About Religion by Kevin Timpe (Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, Idaho, USA)
Kevin Timpe (Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, Idaho, USA)
Arguing About Philosophy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2009-01-14
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