Experience Explanation And Faith

Author : Anthony O'Hear
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135977818

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Experience, Explanation and Faith by Anthony O'Hear Pdf

In this book Anthony O’Hear examines the reasons that are given for religious faith. His approach is firmly within the classical tradition of natural theology, but an underlying theme is the differences between the personal Creator of the Bible or the Koran and a God conceived of as the indeterminate ground of everything determinate. Drawing on several religious traditions and on the resources of contemporary philosophy, specific chapters analyse the nature of religious faith and of religious experience. They examine connections between religion and morality, and religion and human knowledge – the cosmological, teleological and ontological arguments, process thought, and the problem that evil presents for religion. The final chapter returns to the inherently dogmatic nature of religious faith and concludes that rational people should look beyond religion for the fulfilment of their spiritual needs.

Author : Carl Sagan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781101201831

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The Varieties of Scientific Experience by Carl Sagan Pdf

“Ann Druyan has unearthed a treasure. It is a treasure of reason, compassion, and scientific awe. It should be the next book you read.” —Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith “A stunningly valuable legacy left to all of us by a great human being. I miss him so.” —Kurt Vonnegut Carl Sagan's prophetic vision of the tragic resurgence of fundamentalism and the hope-filled potential of the next great development in human spirituality The late great astronomer and astrophysicist describes his personal search to understand the nature of the sacred in the vastness of the cosmos. Exhibiting a breadth of intellect nothing short of astounding, Sagan presents his views on a wide range of topics, including the likelihood of intelligent life on other planets, creationism and so-called intelligent design, and a new concept of science as "informed worship." Originally presented at the centennial celebration of the famous Gifford Lectures in Scotland in 1985 but never published, this book offers a unique encounter with one of the most remarkable minds of the twentieth century.

Author : Anthony O'Hear
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0751200522

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Experience, Explanation and Faith by Anthony O'Hear Pdf

Examines the reasons that are given for religious faith. The approach of the book is firmly within the classical approach of natural theology, but an underlying theme is to spell out the differences between the personal creator of the Bible and the Koran.

Author : J. Hick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230275324

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Between Faith and Doubt by J. Hick Pdf

This short book is a lively dialogue between a religious believer and a skeptic. It covers all the main issues including different ideas of God, the good and bad in religion, religious experience and neuroscience, pain and suffering, death and life after death, and includes interesting autobiographical revelations.

Author : Sharon Salzberg
Publisher : HarperThorsons
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-04
Category : Buddhists
ISBN : 0007151144

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Faith by Sharon Salzberg Pdf

Faith is a word that is often misunderstood - we may think the innocent lucky few have it while the rest of us couldn't possibly, or that we have to give up independence to attain it. In this book, Sharon Salzberg strips away negative conceptions that dismiss faith as being divisive or requiring blind adherence to a belief system. She offers advice on understanding faith as a healing quality that is grounded in common sense, intelligence and, most importantly, our own experience.

Author : Jerry A. Coyne
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780698195516

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Faith Versus Fact by Jerry A. Coyne Pdf

The New York Times bestselling author explains why any attempt to make religion compatible with science is doomed to fail. What we read in the news today is full of subjectivity, half-truths, and blatant falsehoods; and thus it is more necessary now than ever to safeguard the truth with facts. In his provocative new book, evolutionary biologist Jerry A. Coyne aims to do exactly that in the arena of religion. In clear, dispassionate detail he explains why the toolkit of science, based on reason and empirical study, is reliable, while that of religion—including faith, dogma, and revelation—leads to incorrect, untestable, or conflicting conclusions. Coyne is responding to a national climate in which over half of Americans don’t believe in evolution (and congressmen deny global warming), and warns that religious prejudices and strictures in politics, education, medicine, and social policy are on the rise. Extending the bestselling works of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens, he demolishes the claims of religion to provide verifiable “truth” by subjecting those claims to the same tests we use to establish truth in science. Coyne irrefutably demonstrates the grave harm—to individuals and to our planet—in mistaking faith for fact in making the most important decisions about the world we live in.

Author : George B. Wall
Publisher : University Press of Amer
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0819198323

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Religious Experience and Religious Belief by George B. Wall Pdf

Wall examines some objections to the thesis that religious experience is a rational ground for religious belief. Viewing religious experience along the lines of William James, specifically, as awareness of or encounter with the Divine, he adopts the approach of Richard Swinburne and William Alston that religious experience is prima facie justification for religious belief. The book further examines objections to this approach, measuring the objections against specific accounts of religious experience. Contents: Preliminary Considerations; Background Influences; The Explanation from Desire Three Special Cases; The Explanation from Desire Eastern Forms of Experience; The Notion of the Unconscious; The Effects of Religious Experience; The Religious Overrider System; Two Conflicts in Religious Belief; Conclusion."

Author : Ann Taves
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691140889

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Religious Experience Reconsidered by Ann Taves Pdf

Annotation Ann Taves addresses the subject of religious experience directly and the problems of reductionism and humanistic fears of the sciences indirectly and by example. The orientation of this book is practical more than philosophical.

Author : Francis Lorette Strickland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Experience (Religion)
ISBN : UVA:X001133436

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Psychology of Religious Experience by Francis Lorette Strickland Pdf

Author : Charles Taliaferro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107393769

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Evidence and Faith by Charles Taliaferro Pdf

Charles Taliaferro has written a dynamic narrative history of philosophical reflection on religion from the seventeenth century to the present, with an emphasis on shifting views of faith and the nature of evidence. The book begins with the movement called Cambridge Platonism, which formed a bridge between the ancient and medieval worlds and early modern philosophy. While the book provides a general overview of different movements in philosophy, it also offers a detailed exposition and reflection on key arguments. The scope is broad, from Descartes to contemporary feminist philosophy of religion. Written with clarity and verve, this is a book that will appeal to professionals and students in the philosophy of religion, religious studies, and the history of ideas, as well as informed lay readers.

Author : Harold A. Netland
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493434893

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Religious Experience and the Knowledge of God by Harold A. Netland Pdf

For many Christians, personal experiences of God provide an important ground or justification for accepting the truth of the gospel. But we are sometimes mistaken about our experiences, and followers of other religions also provide impressive testimonies to support their religious beliefs. This book explores from a philosophical and theological perspective the viability of divine encounters as support for belief in God, arguing that some religious experiences can be accepted as genuine experiences of God and can provide evidence for Christian beliefs.

Author : Warren Nelson Nevius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X030040779

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Religion as Experience and Truth by Warren Nelson Nevius Pdf

Author : Alister McGrath,Joanna Collicutt McGrath
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830868735

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The Dawkins Delusion? by Alister McGrath,Joanna Collicutt McGrath Pdf

Alister McGrath and Joanna Collicutt McGrath present a reliable assessment of The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, famed atheist and scientist, and the many questions this book raises--including, above all, the relevance of faith and the quest for meaning.

Author : William James
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781877527463

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The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James Pdf

Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature explores the nature of religion and, in James' observation, its divorce from science when studied academically. After publication in 1902 it quickly became a canonical text of philosophy and psychology, remaining in print through the entire century. "Scientific theories are organically conditioned just as much as religious emotions are; and if we only knew the facts intimately enough, we should doubtless see 'the liver' determining the dicta of the sturdy atheist as decisively as it does those of the Methodist under conviction anxious about his soul. When it alters in one way the blood that percolates it, we get the Methodist, when in another way, we get the atheist form of mind."

Author : Paul Tillich
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780062031464

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Dynamics of Faith by Paul Tillich Pdf

One of the greatest books ever written on the subject, Dynamics of Faithis a primer in the philosophy of religion. Paul Tillich, a leading theologian of the twentieth century, explores the idea of faith in all its dimensions, while defining the concept in the process. This graceful and accessible volume contains a new introduction by Marion Pauck, Tillich's biographer.