A Companion to the Philosophy of Religion

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In over 78 newly-commissioned essays, this outstanding volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the philosophy of religion.

Written by many of today's leading figures, the volume surveys philosophical issues in the religions of the world, philosophical thought about religion in Western history, and important currents in twentieth-century philosophy of religion.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780631191537
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 6/28/1999
  • Series: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy Series
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 656
  • Product dimensions: 6.99 (w) x 9.93 (h) x 2.01 (d)

Meet the Author

Philip L. Quinn is John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and was previously William Herbert Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University, Rhode Island. He is author of Divine Commands and Moral Requirements (1978), and of numerous articles in philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, theoretical physics, religious ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, value theory, political philosophy, and philosophy and literature. He has served as editor of the journal Faith and Philosophy (1990-5); as President of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association (1994-5); and as Chair of the National Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association (1995-9).

Charles Taliaferro is Associate Professor of Philosophy at St Olaf College, Minnesota. He was Visiting Scholar at Oriel College, Oxford, and has taught at Brown University, the University of Massachusetts, and the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He is the author of Consciousness and the Mind of God (1994) and Contemporary Philosophy of Religion (Blackwell Publishers, 1997), and numerous papers in philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and ethics.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
List of contributors
Introduction 1
1 Hinduism 7
2 Buddhism 15
3 Chinese Confucianism and Daoism 25
4 African religions from a philosophical point of view 34
5 Judaism 43
6 Christianity 56
7 Islam 64
8 Ancient philosophical theology 73
9 The Christian contribution to medieval philosophical theology 80
10 The Islamic contribution to medieval philosophical theology 88
11 The Jewish contribution to medieval philosophical theology 95
12 Early modern philosophical theology 103
13 The emergence of modern philosophy of religion 111
14 American pragmatism 121
15 Personalism 129
16 Process theology 136
17 Phenomenology and existentialism 143
18 Wittgensteinianism 150
19 Thomism 158
20 The reformed tradition 165
21 The Anglican tradition 171
22 The Jewish tradition 179
23 The Orthodox tradition 186
24 Religious language 197
25 The verificationist challenge 204
26 Theological realism and antirealism 213
27 Being 223
28 Omnipotence 229
29 Omniscience 236
30 Goodness 243
31 Simplicity 250
32 Eternity 257
33 Necessity 264
34 Incorporeality 271
35 Beauty 279
36 Omnipresence 286
37 Foreknowledge and human freedom 291
38 Divine action 299
39 Creation and conservation 306
40 Immutability and impassibility 313
41 Ontological arguments 323
42 Cosmological arguments 331
43 Teleological and design arguments 338
44 Moral arguments 344
45 Pragmatic arguments 350
46 Miracles 360
47 Religious experience 367
48 Fideism 376
49 Reformed epistemology 383
50 The problem of evil 393
51 Naturalistic explanations of theistic belief 402
52 The presumption of atheism 410
53 Theism and physical cosmology 419
54 Theism and evolutionary biology 426
55 Theism and the scientific understanding of the mind 433
56 Theism and technology 442
57 Divine command ethics 453
58 Natural law ethics 460
59 Virtue ethics 466
60 Narrative ethics 473
61 Agapeistic ethics 481
62 Theism, law, and politics 489
63 Theism and medical ethics 497
64 Theism and environmental ethics 505
65 Theism and toleration 514
66 Trinity 525
67 Incarnation 532
68 Sin and original sin 541
69 Atonement, justification, and sanctification 549
70 Survival of death 556
71 Heaven and hell 562
72 Providence and predestination 569
73 Petitionary prayer 577
74 Revelation and scripture 584
75 Tradition 591
76 Feminism 601
77 Religious pluralism 607
78 Comparative philosophy of religion 615
Resources for further study 621
Index 623
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