God, Freedom and Immortality
Published on 28. April 1999
Book
Hardback
746 pages
978-1-84014-836-7 (ISBN)
Description
This text offers a comprehensive treatment of the Philosophy of Religion. Its overall conclusions are that, though there is no reason to suppose there is a God, doing something that is not quite believing in god, who, as some mystics think - neither exists nor does not exist, may be valuable for some people.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
glossary, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 162 mm
Width: 226 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84014-836-7 (9781840148367)
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Content
Part 1 Preliminary epistemological questions: meaning and the word "God"; the impossibility of rational theology; objections to empiricism. Part 2 Arguments for the existence of God: the ontological argument; possible worlds and the ontological argument; the cosmological argument; the argument from design; God and morality - ethical arguments for the existence of God; theology without propositions; deistic phenomenalism - a reductionist account of the existence of God; religion without belief; minor arguments for the existence of God; the "argument" from religious experience. Part 3 God's attributes: God's omnipotence; trouble with the trinity; God's omniscience; providence, foreknowledge, will and fate; God's eternity; God's infinity, simplicity, unity, impassibility and holiness; God's embodiment; the body of Christ; God's omnipercipience; survival of death; the problem of evil; miracles; the efficacy of prayer. Part 4 Faith and morality: belief; faith; unchristian ethics; conclusions.