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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)

Summary

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.

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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

  1. Norman Kretzmann, The Nature of Natural Theology
  2. Scott MacDonald, What is Philosophical Theology?
  3. Al Plantinga, The Reformed Objection to Natural Theology
  4. Richard Swinburne, Rational Religious Belief
  5. John Hick, Religious Pluralism and Salvation
  6. Keith Ward, Truth and the Diversity of Religions
  7. Timothy O'Connor, Religious Pluralism
  8. II. God's Nature and Existence

  9. Peter van Inwagen, Necessary Existence: The Ontological Argument
  10. Alexander Pruss Some Recent Work on the Cosmological Argument
  11. Wes Morriston, A Critical Examination of the Kalam Cosmological Argument
  12. Robin Collins, A Scientific Argument for the Existence of God: The Fine-Tuning Design Argument
  13. Elliot Sober, Design Arguments
  14. Louis Pojman, A Critique of the Argument from Religious Experience
  15. C. Stephen Layman, God and the Moral Order
  16. III. Evil and Divine Hiddenness

  17. Peter van Inwagen, The Argument from Evil
  18. Whitley Kaufman, Karma, Rebirth, and the Problem of Evil
  19. Richard Swinburne, Natural Evil and the Possibility of Knowledge
  20. William Rowe, The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism
  21. William Alston, The Inductive Argument from Evil and the Human Cognitive Condition
  22. Peter van Inwagen, The Hiddenness of God
  23. Michael Murray, Coercion and the Hiddenness of God
  24. Robert Lovering, Divine Hiddenness and Inculpable Ignorance
  25. IV. Providence and Interaction

  26. Derk Pereboom, Free Will, Evil, and Divine Providence
  27. William Lane Craig, The Middle-Knowledge View
  28. William Hasker, The Openness of God
  29. John Sanders, Why Simple Foreknowledge Offers No More Providential Control than the Openness of God
  30. David Hunt, The Providential Advantage of Divine Foreknowledge
  31. Norman Kretzmann, Why Would God Create Anything at All?
  32. Eleonore Stump, Petitionary Prayer
  33. Kevin Timpe, Prayer for the Past
  34. V. The Afterlife

  35. Kevin Corcoran, Dualism, Materialism, and the Problem of Postmortem Survival
  36. Lynne Rudder Baker, Persons and the Metaphysics of Resurrection
  37. Roger Ames, Death as Transformation in Classical Daoism
  38. David Lewis, Divine Evil
  39. Thomas Talbott, The Doctrine of Everlasting Punishment
  40. Eleonore Stump, Dante's Hell, Aquinas's Moral Theory and the Love of God
  41. Sennett, James F. Is There Freedom in Heaven?
  42. VI. Religion and Contemporary Life

  43. Daniel Dennett, selection from Breaking the Spell
  44. Richard Dawkins, selection from The God Delusion
  45. Alister McGrath, selection from Dawkins' God
  46. Phillip Kitcher, Born-Again Creationism
  47. Phillip Johnson, Evolution as Dogma: The Establishment of Naturalism
  48. Robert Pennock, Why Creationism Should Not be Taught in the Public Schools
  49. Alvin Plantinga, Creation and Evolution: A Modest Proposal
  50. Paul Weithman, Theism, Law, and Politics

Additional information

CIN0415988624G
9780415988629
0415988624
Arguing About Religion by Kevin Timpe (Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, Idaho, USA)
Used - Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2009-01-14
648
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