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Author : Richard M. Gale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107142350
This influential book evaluates the arguments for the existence and nature of God that emerged in the late twentieth century.
Author : Alfred J. Freddoso
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015012258334
These original essays offer evidence that a growing number of Anglo-American philosophers are finding in the classical discussion of God's existence and nature fertile sources for the critical reflection on issues in the philosophy of religion. Nelson Pike challenges Aquinas' claim that God is not responsible for evil and shows how the rejection of this claim bears on the proem of evil. Richard Swinburne defends the classical Christian understanding of heaven and hell, arguing that it is both philosophically plausible and compatible with the Christian conception of God's goodness. Philip Quinn proposes a defensible version of the classical assertion that God's conserving a creature in existence is tantamount to his continuously creating that creature. Thomas Flint and Alfred Freddoso present an analysis of omnipotence which they claim to be both philosophically adequate and consonant with the orthodox Christian belief that God is both omnipotent and incapable of sinning. James Ross's main purpose is to dislodge the assumption that God's power is properly and adequately thought of as the power to cause (or bring about or actualize) states of affairs. Clement Dore reinterprets and defends Descartes' often maligned Fifth Meditation argument for God's existence. finally, Mark Jordan explicates the metaphysical foundations of Aquinas' doctrine of divine names.
Author : Gregory E. Ganssle
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830815511
Editor Gregory Ganssle calls on four Christian philosophers to present and defend their views on the place of God in a time-bound universe. The positions taken up here include divine timeless eternity, eternity as relative timelessness, timelessness and omnitemporality, and unqualified divine temporality.
Author : William Lane Craig
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433501159
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 : Gerard Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134809660
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Stephen Charnock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : God
ISBN : YALE:39002053462660
Author : S. C.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1718
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020127611
Author : Denys Turner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521602564
The proposition that the existence of God is demonstrable by rational argument is doubted by nearly all philosophical opinion today and is thought by most Christian theologians to be incompatible with Christian faith. This book argues that, on the contrary, there are reasons of faith why in principle the existence of God should be thought rationally demonstrable and that it is worthwhile revisiting the theology of Thomas Aquinas to see why this is so. The book further suggests that philosophical objections to proofs of God's existence rely upon an attenuated and impoverished conception of reason which theologians of all monotheistic traditions might wish to reject. Denys Turner proposes that on a broader and deeper conception of it, human rationality is open to the 'sacramental shape' of creation as such and in its exercise of rational proof of God it in some way participates in that sacramentality of all things.
Author : John Foster
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199250592
John Foster presents a clear and powerful discussion of a range of topics relating to our understanding of the universe: induction, laws of nature, and the existence of God. He begins by developing a solution to the problem of induction - a solution whose key idea is that the regularities in the workings of nature that have held in our experience hitherto are to be explained by appeal to the controlling influence of laws, as forms of natural necessity. His second line of argumentfocuses on the issue of what we should take such necessitational laws to be, and whether we can even make sense of them at all. Having considered and rejected various alternatives, Foster puts forward his own proposal: the obtaining of a law consists in the causal imposing of a regularity on theuniverse as a regularity. With this causal account of laws in place, he is now equipped to offer an argument for theism. His claim is that natural regularities call for explanation, and that, whatever explanatory role we may initially assign to laws, the only plausible ultimate explanation is in terms of the agency of God. Finally, he argues that, once we accept the existence of God, we need to think of him as creating the universe by a method which imposes regularities on it in the relevantlaw-yielding way. In this new perspective, the original nomological-explanatory solution to the problem of induction becomes a theological-explanatory solution.The Divine Lawmaker is bold and original in its approach, and rich in argument. The issues on which it focuses are among the most important in the whole epistemological and metaphysical spectrum.
Author : Richard Swinburne
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199271672
Substantially re-written and updated, this edition of 'The Existence of God' presents arguments such as the existence of the laws of nature, 'fine-tuning' of the universe, moral awareness and evidence of miracles, to prove the case that there is a God.
Author : Gerard J. Hughes
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : God
ISBN : 9780415109505
Providing the reader with first-hand acquaintance of the religious philosophies of such classic writers as Aquinas and Hume, Hughes goes on to discuss their arguments in the light of current debates.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : God
ISBN : BL:A0022696624
Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521029100
Paperback reissue of one volume of the English Dominicans' Latin/English edition of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae.
Author : William L. Craig
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579104382
Does God exist? Of the many ongoing debates to answer this question, William Craig examines one of the most controversial proofs for the existence of God; the Kalam cosmological argument. Dr. Craig provides a broad assessment of the argument in lieu of recent developments in philosophy, mathematics, science and theology.
Author : Dean L. Overman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780742565531
Some of the brightest scientific minds of our time, from Albert Einstein to Stephen Hawking, have made incredible insights into the earliest origins of the universe, but have failed to ultimately discover why there is something rather than nothing—why we exist. In A Case for the Existence of God, Dean L. Overman examines the latest theories about the origins of the universe and explains why even the most sophisticated science can only take us so far. Ultimately we must make a leap of faith to understand the world, and Overman argues that a leap into theism provides the most satisfying conclusions. Overman explores fundamental questions about why our world exists and how it functions, using principles of logic, physics, and theology. In a time when religion and science are often portrayed as diametrically opposed, A Case for the Existence of God presents a refreshing view of the interplay between science and religion and makes a compelling case for the existence of God and his role in our world.
