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| Titre : | Philosophy of Religion |
| Auteurs : | Norman L. Geisler, Auteur ; Winfried Corduan, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Mention d'édition : | 2nd ed. |
| Editeur : | Grand Rapids [USA] : Baker Book House, 1988 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-8010-3821-1 |
| Format : | 402 p. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | QU/C (Branches de la philosophie : épistémologie, esthétique, logique, métaphysique, morale/éthique, philos. de la religion) |
| Résumé : |
Written from a positive evangelical perspective, this book is a strong defense of the Christian's view of God, evil, religious experience, and the purpose of the present world. Philosophy of Religion is a thorough presentation of the arguments for the existence of God that have been propounded by various philosophers and theologians of the past and present. The author also carefully analyzes the thoughts of those who have made contributions to the historic arguments either by rethinking and restating them or by presenting refutations of them.
Dr. Geisler opens his analysis by defining the difference between morality and religion. After examining the characteristics of religious experience, he discusses the reasons why the classical arguments for the existence of God are logically invalid. The author's restatement of the cosmological argument "does not prove God's existence (the existence of an independent Being needs no support from any argument). . . . What results from the argument is a truth (i.e., a statement about God's existence), viz., the truth of the statement 'God exists.'" Thus, says the author, it is not logically necessary to believe in God, but it is ontologically necessary to do so. Questions about evil, which are often given acceptable answers from Scripture, but which at the same time are often only superficially understood, are discussed in considerable depth. The author gives a studied and perhaps surprising answer to the question, "Of all the worlds that God could have created, is this the best possible world?" |
| Note de contenu : |
- Preface
PART ONE — God and Experience - 1. The Nature of Religious Experience 2. The Characteristics of Religious Experience 3. The Dimensions of Religious Experience 4. Testing the Reality of Religious Experience PART TWO — God and Reason - 5. The Function of Theistic Proofs 6. Teleological and Moral Arguments 7. Ontological Arguments 8. Cosmological Arguments 9. The Cosmological Argument Reevaluated . PART THREE — God and Language - 10. The Problem of Religious Language 11. Negative Religious Language 12. Positive Language About God 13. Model Religious Language PART FOUR — God and Evil - 14. The Nature of the Problem of Evil 15. The Metaphysical Problem of Evil 16. The Moral Problem of Evil 17. The Physical Problem of Evil - Bibliography - Indexes |
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