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Author : Alvin Plantinga,Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015027239071
A collection of essays by contemporary Calvinist philosophers of religion that examine the epistemology of religious belief between Reformed and Roman Catholic philosophers.
Author : Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1100339457
Author : Alvin Plantinga
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Faith and reason
ISBN : OCLC:1310597782
A collection of essays by contemporary Calvinist philosophers of religion that examine the epistemology of religious belief between Reformed and Roman Catholic philosophers.
Author : Jürgen Habermas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745694412
This important new volume brings together Habermas' key writing on religion and religious belief. Habermas explores the relations between Christian and Jewish thought, on the one hand, and the Western philosophical tradition on the other. In so doing, he examines a range of important figures, including Benjamin, Heidegger, Johann Baptist Metz and Gershom Scholem. In a new introduction written especially for this volume, Eduardo Mendieta places Habermas' engagement with religion in the context of his work as a whole. Mendieta also discusses Habermas' writings in relation to Jewish Messianism and the Frankfurt School, showing how the essays in Religion and Rationality, one of which is translated into English for the first time, foreground an important, yet often neglected, dimension of critical theory. The volume concludes with an original extended interview, also in English for the first time, in which Habermas develops his current views on religion in modern society. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theology, religious studies and philosophy, as well as to all those already familiar with Habermas' work.
Author : John H. Smith
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801463273
The contemporary theologian Hans Küng has asked if the "death of God," proclaimed by Nietzsche as the event of modernity, was inevitable. Did the empowering of new forms of rationality in Western culture beginning around 1500 lead necessarily to the reduction or privatization of faith? In Dialogues between Faith and Reason, John H. Smith traces a major line in the history of theology and the philosophy of religion down the "slippery slope" of secularization—from Luther and Erasmus, through Idealism, to Nietzsche, Heidegger, and contemporary theory such as that of Derrida, Habermas, Vattimo, and Asad. At the same time, Smith points to the persistence of a tradition that grew out of the Reformation and continues in the mostly Protestant philosophical reflection on whether and how faith can be justified by reason. In this accessible and vigorously argued book, Smith posits that faith and reason have long been locked in mutual engagement in which they productively challenge each other as partners in an ongoing "dialogue." Smith is struck by the fact that although in the secularized West the death of God is said to be fundamental to the modern condition, our current post-modernity is often characterized as a "postsecular" time. For Smith, this means not only that we are experiencing a broad-based "return of religion" but also, and more important for his argument, that we are now able to recognize the role of religion within the history of modernity. Emphasizing that, thanks to the logos located "in the beginning," the death of God is part of the inner logic of the Christian tradition, he argues that this same strand of reasoning also ensures that God will always "return" (often in new forms). In Smith's view, rational reflection on God has both undermined and justified faith, while faith has rejected and relied on rational argument. Neither a defense of atheism nor a call to belief, his book explores the long history of their interaction in modern religious and philosophical thought.
Author : Stephen T Davis
Publisher : Lion Books
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780745980072
If God exists, why doesn't he eliminate suffering and evil? Does evolution disprove Christianity? Can religion be explained by cognitive science? People have grappled for ages with these kinds of questions. And many in today's academic world find Christian belief untenable. But renowned philosopher Stephen Davis argues that belief in God is indeed a rational and intellectually sound endeavor. Drawing on a lifetime of rigorous reflection and critical thinking, he explores perennial and contemporary challenges to Christian faith. Davis appraises objections fairly and openly, offering thoughtful approaches to common intellectual problems. Real questions warrant reasonable responses. Examine for yourself the rationality of the Christian faith.
Author : Sarah Coakley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781118321683
Faith, Rationality and the Passions presents a fresh and original examination of the relation of religious faith, philosophical rationality and the passions. Contributions see leading scholars refute the widely-held belief that religious Enlightenment forced passion and reason apart. Leading Philosophical experts offer new research on the relation of faith, reason and the passions in classic and Enlightenment figures Overturns the widely-held presumption that the Enlightenment was responsible for creating a gulf between reason and passion Presents original and innovative research on the importance of the late-19th century creation of the category of ‘emotion’, and its striking difference from classic ideas of passion Brings together secular science and philosophy of emotion with philosophical theology to seek a new integration of belief, emotion and reason
Author : Robert Audi
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191619526
Rationality and Religious Commitment shows how religious commitment can be rational and describes the place of faith in the postmodern world. It portrays religious commitment as far more than accepting doctrines—it is viewed as a kind of life, not just as an embrace of tenets. Faith is conceived as a unique attitude. It is irreducible to belief but closely connected with both belief and conduct, and intimately related to life's moral, political, and aesthetic dimensions. Part One presents an account of rationality as a status attainable by mature religious people—even those with a strongly scientific habit of mind. Part Two describes what it means to have faith, how faith is connected with attitudes, emotions, and conduct, and how religious experience may support it. Part Three turns to religious commitment and moral obligation and to the relation between religion and politics. It shows how ethics and religion can be mutually supportive even though ethics provides standards of conduct independently of theology. It also depicts the integrated life possible for the religiously committed—a life with rewarding interactions between faith and reason, religion and science, and the aesthetic and the spiritual. The book concludes with two major accounts. One explains how moral wrongs and natural disasters are possible under God conceived as having the knowledge, power, and goodness that make such evils so difficult to understand. The other account explores the nature of persons, human and divine, and yields a conception that can sustain a rational theistic worldview even in the contemporary scientific age.
Author : Thomas D. Senor
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781501744839
A veritable who's who in the field of contemporary philosophy of religion here considers various issues in the epistemology of religious beliefs. The writings of William P. Alston, the leading figure in the revival of the Anglo-American philosophy of religion, provide the focus of these essays, all but two previously unpublished. Philosophers of religion, meta-physicians, epistemologists, and theologians will find in this volume some of the most important work available in the theory of knowledge and the epistemic status of religious belief.
Author : Jeff Jordan,Daniel Howard-Snyder
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 084768153X
The philosophy of religion, once considered a deviation from an otherwise analytically rigorous discipline, has flourished over the past two decades. This collection of new essays by twelve distinguished philosophers of religion explores three broad themes: religious attitudes of belief, acceptance, and love; human and divine freedom; and the rationality of religious belief.
Author : Lydia Schumacher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317011286
For much of the modern period, theologians and philosophers of religion have struggled with the problem of proving that it is rational to believe in God. Drawing on the thought of Thomas Aquinas, Theological Philosophy seeks to overturn the longstanding problem of proving faith's rationality and to establish instead that rationality requires to be explained by appeals to faith. Building on a constructive argument developed in a companion book, Rationality as Virtue, Lydia Schumacher advances the conclusion that belief in the God of Christian faith provides an exceptionally robust rationale for rationality and is as such intrinsically rational. At the same time, Schumacher overcomes a common tendency to separate spiritual from ordinary life, and construes the latter as the locus of proof for the rationality of Christian faith.
Author : Alvin Plantinga,Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Faith and reason
ISBN : UOM:39076001432942
A collection of essays by contemporary Calvinist philosophers of religion that examine the epistemology of religious belief between Reformed and Roman Catholic philosophers.
Author : Roger Trigg
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998-06-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0631197486
Rationality and Religion deals with the perennial question of how far religious faith needs reason.
Author : Michael J. Murray,Michael C. Rea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139469657
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion provides a broad overview of the topics which are at the forefront of discussion in contemporary philosophy of religion. Prominent views and arguments from both historical and contemporary authors are discussed and analyzed. The book treats all of the central topics in the field, including the coherence of the divine attributes, theistic and atheistic arguments, faith and reason, religion and ethics, miracles, human freedom and divine providence, science and religion, and immortality. In addition it addresses topics of significant importance that similar books often ignore, including the argument for atheism from hiddenness, the coherence of the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation, and the relationship between religion and politics. It will be a valuable accompaniment to undergraduate and introductory graduate-level courses.
Author : Ronald H. Nash
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1994-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310294010
This book explores philosophical questions that have important implications for the truth and rationality of the Christian faith.