Title:
Philosophy : religion / Donald M. Borchert, editor.
Author:
Borchert, Donald M., 1934- editor.
Publication Information:
Farmington Hills : Macmillan Reference USA, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2017.
Call Number:
BL51 .P5456 2017
Abstract:
"Covers such topics as the nature of the God of theism, evidence and arguments supporting the existence of God, evidence and arguments challenging the existing of God, death and postdeath survival, and philosophy of religion's expanding horizons"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9780028663357
Series:
Macmillan interdisciplinary handbooks. Philosophy
Macmillan interdisciplinary handbooks. Philosophy.
Physical Description:
xvii, 494 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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Contents:
The omni attributes: omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, and omnisubjectivity / Attributes of God: goodness, hiddenness, everlastingness / Divine action
The ontological arguments / The cosmological argument / The teleological argument / The moral argument / The wager argument / Mircales as evidence for the existence of God / Religious experience as evidence for the existence of God
The problem of evil / Theism and the sociobiological account of religion / Religion and science / Alternatives to theism / Problems in religious language
The case for resurrection / The case for reincarnation / Near-death experience and the case for postdeath survival / The cases for and against postdeath survival
Feminist philosophy of religion / Religious pluralism / Theism and ethics / Religious terrorism / Religion and the meaning of life
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