A God of Time and Space
Author | : Robert W. Kvalvaag |
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Release | : 2019 |
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ISBN | : 9788202660116 |
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Author | : Robert W. Kvalvaag |
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Release | : 2019 |
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ISBN | : 9788202660116 |
Author | : Robert N. McCauley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-11 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0199341540 |
A comparison of the cognitive foundations of religion and science and an argument that religion is cognitively natural and that science is cognitively unnatural.
Author | : Nick Trakakis |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2006-11-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 140205145X |
This study of Professor William Rowe’s defense of atheism on the basis of evil assesses the literature that has developed in response to Rowe’s work, closely examining two strategies: mystery – the idea that God may have reasons beyond our comprehension for permitting evil; and theodicy - explanations as to why God allows evil to flourish. The book unearths difficulties in both, concluding that the God of theism must be "beyond belief."
Author | : James D. G. Dunn |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2005-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0801027101 |
A renowned scholar calls for a change of direction for the study of Jesus in the 21st century.
Author | : Jordan Maxwell |
Publisher | : Book Tree |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Astronomy |
ISBN | : 9781585091003 |
This book proves there is nothing new under the sun regarding many of our modern religious beliefs. This includes Christianity, and how many of its beliefs could be far older than what we have suspected. It gives a complete run-down of the stellar, lunar, and solar evolution of our religious systems and contains new, long-awaited, exhaustive research on the gods and our beliefs.
Author | : J. L. Schellenberg |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2015-07-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191047384 |
In many places and times, and for many people, God's existence has been rather less than a clear fact. According to the hiddenness argument, this is actually a reason to suppose that it is not a fact at all. The hiddenness argument is a new argument for atheism that has come to prominence in philosophy over the past two decades. J. L. Schellenberg first developed the argument in 1993, and this book offers a short and vigorous statement of its central claims and ideas. Logically sharp but so clear that anyone can understand, the book addresses little-discussed issues such as why it took so long for hiddenness reasoning to emerge in philosophy, and how the hiddenness problem is distinct from the problem of evil. It concludes with the fascinating thought that retiring the last of the personal gods might leave us nearer the beginning of religion than the end. Though an atheist, Schellenberg writes sensitively and with a nuanced insider's grasp of the religious life. Pertinent aspects of his experience as a believer and as a nonbeliever, and of his own engagement with hiddenness issues, are included. Set in this personal context, and against an authoritative background on relevant logical, conceptual, and historical matters, The Hiddenness Argument's careful but provocative reasoning makes crystal clear just what this new argument is and why it matters.
Author | : William L. Rowe |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2008-10-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0253114098 |
Is evil evidence against the existence of God? A collection of essays by philosophers, theologians, and other scholars. Even if God and evil are compatible, it remains hotly contested whether evil renders belief in God unreasonable. The Evidential Argument from Evil presents five classic statements on this issue by eminent philosophers and theologians, and places them in dialogue with eleven original essays reflecting new thinking by these and other scholars. The volume focuses on two versions of the argument. The first affirms that there is no reason for God to permit either certain specific horrors or the variety and profusion of undeserved suffering. The second asserts that pleasure and pain, given their biological role, are better explained by hypotheses other than theism. Contributors include William P. Alston, Paul Draper, Richard M. Gale, Daniel Howard-Snyder, Alvin Plantinga, William L. Rowe, Bruce Russell, Eleonore Stump, Richard G. Swinburne, Peter van Inwagen, and Stephen John Wykstra.
Author | : K.J. Clark |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1992-08-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780792314851 |
Natural theology is the project of articulating, defending and CntlClzmg arguments for the existence and nature of God without the aid of special revelation. Philosophical theology, which employs the rational methods of natural theology, is not restricted to premises that are discernible through observation and reason; it may rightly employ premises that are knowable through special revelation. While the project of natural theology may be construed as an attempt to demonstrate God's existence, one cannot ignore the importance of using reason or experience to understand, determine or assess attributes. One will want to know at the conclusion of a proof in natural God's theology if one has proved the existence of God and not merely the prim urn mobilum, source of moral obligation or a committee of finite designers; while God may be the prime mover and designer of the cosmos, none of these attributes alone is sufficient for making a claim to divinity. It is, therefore, difficult to distinguish sharply the project of natural theology from philosophi cal theology. The project of classical natural theology has been the attempt to prove God's existence and nature with arguments that employ premises that all rational creatures are obliged to accept.
Author | : Thaddeus Williams |
Publisher | : Lexham Academic |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2021-08-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1683594983 |
Must we be free to truly love? Evil is a problem for all Christians. When responding to objections that both evil and God can exist, many resort to a "free will defense," where God is not the creator of evil but of human freedom, by which evil is possible. This response is so pervasive that it is just as often assumed as it is defended. But is this answer biblically and philosophically defensible? In God Reforms Hearts, Thaddeus J. Williams offers a friendly challenge to the central claim of the free will defense—that love is possible only with true (or libertarian) free will. Williams argues that much thinking on free will fails to carve out the necessary distinction between an autonomous will and an unforced will. Scripture presents a God who desires relationship and places moral requirements on his often--rebellious creatures, but does absolute free will follow? Moreover, God's work of transforming the human heart is more thorough than libertarian freedom allows. With clarity, precision, and charity, Williams judges the merits and shortcomings of the relational free will defense while offering a philosophically and biblically robust alternative that draws from theologians of the past to point a way forward.
Author | : Donavon Riley |
Publisher | : New Reformation Publications |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2019-08-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1948969254 |
Jesus is the end of all religion. All the sacrifices of priests and people are rendered null and void by Jesus' one-time-for-all-time sacrifice for all people, everywhere, past, present, and future tense. Jesus' death and resurrection save us from our own religiosity.