Rational Faith

Author : Stephen T Davis
Publisher : Lion Books
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780745980072

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Rational Faith by Stephen T Davis Pdf

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 : Christoph Schoenborn
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781681490854

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Chance or Purpose? by Christoph Schoenborn Pdf

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn's article on evolution and creation in The New York Times launched an international controversy. Critics charged him with biblical literalism and 'creationism'. In this book, Cardinal Schönborn responds to his critics by tackling the hard questions with a carefully reasoned "theology of creation". Can we still speak intelligently of the world as 'creation' and affirm the existence of the Creator, or is God a 'delusion'? How should an informed believer read Genesis? If God exists, why is there so much injustice and suffering? Are human beings a part of nature or elevated above it? What is man's destiny? Is everything a matter of chance or can we discern purpose in human existence? In his treatment of evolution, Cardinal Schönborn distinguishes the biological theory from 'evolutionism', the ideology that tries to reduce all of reality to mindless, meaningless processes. He argues that science and a rationally grounded faith are not at odds and that what many people represent as 'science' is really a set of philosophical positions that will not withstand critical scrutiny. Chance or Purpose? directly raises the philosophical and theological issues many scientists today overlook or ignore. The result is a vigorous, frank dialogue that acknowledges the respective insights of the philosopher, the theologian and the scientist, but which calls on them to listen and to learn from each another.

Author : William Dodwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1745
Category : Sermons, English
ISBN : OXFORD:N11709143

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The Nature, Procedure, Extent, Value and Effects of a Rational Faith Considered by William Dodwell Pdf

Author : H. J. B. (Hugh Junor Browne)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Spiritualism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105046655903

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A Rational Faith; Or, A Scientific Basis for Belief in a Future Progressive State Versus Faith in Traditions and Dogmas Irreconcilable with Reason by H. J. B. (Hugh Junor Browne) Pdf

Author : Thomas J. Vaiden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Rationalism
ISBN : UOMDLP:afz1659:0001.001

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Rational Religion and Morals: Presenting Analysis of the Functions of Mind, Under the Operations and Directions of Reason by Thomas J. Vaiden Pdf

Author : Anna Tomaszewska
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350195868

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Kant’s Rational Religion and the Radical Enlightenment by Anna Tomaszewska Pdf

Kant's defence of religion and attempts to reconcile faith with reason position him as a moderate Enlightenment thinker in existing scholarship. Challenging this view and reconceptualising Kant's religion along rationalist lines, Anna Tomaszewska sheds light on its affinities with the ideas of the radical Enlightenment, originating in the work of Baruch Spinoza and understood as a critique of divine revelation. Distinguishing the epistemological, ethical and political aspects of such a critique, Tomaszewska shows how Kant's defence of religion consists of rationalizing its core tenets and establishing morality as the essence of religious faith. She aligns him with other early modern rationalists and German Spinozists and reveals the significance for contemporary political philosophy. Providing reasons for prioritizing freedom of thought, and hence religious criticism, over an unqualified freedom of belief, Kant's theology approximates the secularising tendency of the radical Enlightenment. Here is an understanding of how the shift towards a secular outlook in Western culture was shaped by attempts to rationalize rather than uproot Christianity.

Author : William Lane Craig
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433501159

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Reasonable Faith by William Lane Craig Pdf

This updated edition by one of the world's leading apologists presents a systematic, positive case for Christianity that reflects the latest work in the contemporary hard sciences and humanities. Brilliant and accessible.

Author : Ronald H. Nash
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310294010

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Faith and Reason by Ronald H. Nash Pdf

This book explores philosophical questions that have important implications for the truth and rationality of the Christian faith.

Author : Dennis Vanden Auweele
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498580403

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Pessimism in Kant's Ethics and Rational Religion by Dennis Vanden Auweele Pdf

Dennis Vanden Auweele explores Kant’s moral and religious philosophy and shows that a pessimistic undercurrent pervades them. This provides a new vantage point not only to comprehensively assess Kantian philosophy, but also to provide much needed context and reading assistance to the general premises of Kant's philosophy and rationality.

Author : Robert Audi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190221850

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Rational Belief by Robert Audi Pdf

Rational Belief provides conceptions of belief and knowledge, offers a theory of how they are grounded, and connects them with the will and thereby with action, moral responsibility, and intellectual virtue. A unifying element is a commitment to representing epistemology-which is centrally concerned with belief-as integrated with a plausible philosophy of mind that does justice both to the nature of belief and to the conditions for its formation and regulation. Part One centers on belief and its relation to the will. It explores our control of our beliefs, and it describes several forms belief may take and shows how beliefs are connected with the world outside the mind. Part Two concerns normative aspects of epistemology, explores the nature of intellectual virtue, and presents a theory of moral perception. The book also offers a theory of the grounds of both justification and knowledge and shows how these grounds bear on the self-evident. Rationality is distinguished from justification; each clarified in relation to the other; and the epistemological importance of the phenomenal-for instance, of intuitional experience and other "private" aspects of mental life-is explored. The final section addresses social epistemology. It offers a theory of testimony as essential in human knowledge and a related account of the rational resolution of disagreements.

Author : John Beversluis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124050175

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C.S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion by John Beversluis Pdf

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Author : Goldwin Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Rationalism
ISBN : UOM:39015065240734

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Rational Religion, and the Rationalistic Objections of the Bampton Lectures for 1858 by Goldwin Smith Pdf

Author : Margaret Benson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Christianity
ISBN : SRLF:A0008253981

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The Venture of Rational Faith by Margaret Benson Pdf

Author : William Chester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Immortality
ISBN : WISC:89094582319

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Immortality a Rational Faith by William Chester Pdf

Author : Ramon Harvey
Publisher : Edinburgh Studies in Islamic S
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1474451659

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Transcendent God, Rational World by Ramon Harvey Pdf

Ramon Harvey revisits the Muslim theologian Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī (d. 333/944) from Samarqand and puts his system, and that of the Māturīdī school, into lively dialogue with modern thought to show that a contemporary Muslim philosophical theology (kalām jadīd) can provide original and constructive answers to perennial theological questions.