Philosophical Thinking and the Religious Context.

Philosophical Thinking and the Religious Context.

This new collection covers a wide range of cutting-edge and timely questions in contemporary philosophy of religion from a rich variety of backgrounds and perspectives. The essays in the volume deal with a range of fascinating topics in the philosophy of religion such as views of God''s na...

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Main Author: Sweetman, Brendan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013.
Subjects:
Religion > Philosophy.
Religion > Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; II; Part One Approaches to God; Chapter 1 Remembered Identity: Exploring the Possibility of a Process Anthropology; I Introduction; II Some process notions about God; III A process anthropology; IV Event metaphysics and the inadequacy of substance; V Memory and identity; VI Implications for a process anthropology; Notes; Chapter 2 Stengers on Whitehead on God; I Against classical theism; II Against theism; III An interpretation of Whitehead; IV The importance of Hartshorne; Notes.
  • Chapter 3 Thinking about the God of John Macquarrie (1919-2007)I Macquarrie and Friedrich von Hügel's dimensions of religion; II Macquarrie's "Seeing" of God; III Aquinas, classical theism, and Macquarrie; IV Conclusion; Notes; Part Two Science, Evolution, and God; Chapter 4 Teleology; I The exclusion of purpose from the modern world; II The road less traveled; Notes; Chapter 5 Darker Sides of Twenty-First-Century Science and Perspectives from a Founding Father; I Introduction; II Biographical notes on Robert Boyle; III Darker sides to science and medicine.
  • IV Ownership of the agenda in scienceV Ownership of the medical school agenda: "He who pays the piper . . ."; VI Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 6 Evolution and the Goodness of God: A Hartshornean Perspective; I The problem of evil and evolution; II Divine power; III The neoclassical God and evolution; IV Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 7 Does Evolution make the Problem of Evil Worse?; II; Notes; Part Three Philosophy of Religion and Ethics; Chapter 8 Hyperbolic Thought: On Creation and Nothing1; I What has philosophy to do with creation?; II Beyond univocal intelligibility?; III Origin beyond Holism?
  • IV Coming to be and becoming: Creation and beings in the betweenV Creation and nothing; VI The hyperbole of agapeic origin; Notes; Chapter 9 The Heart's Road to God: Uncovering the Metaphysical Foundation of Beauty in Franciscan Ethics; I Introduction; II The Franciscan metaphysics of beauty; III The metaphysical constitution of the rational will; IV Franciscan praxis: Moral transformation into love; Notes; Chapter 10 Carnap's Distinction and the God-Question1; I External and internal questions; II The question of God's existence; III Metaphysical frameworks; Notes.
  • Chapter 11 A Different Mode of Encounter: Egalitarian Liberalism and the Christian Tradition1I Introduction; II Human rights as egalitarian liberalism; III Christianity's encounter with liberalism; Notes; Postscript; Chapter 12 Philosophizing, Philosophy, and the Religious Context: Reflections on the Source, Resource, and Setting of a Quest1; I Philosophy; II Questions and question; III Question in context; IV Philosophizing and its source; V Question and context; VI Turning to philosophy as resource; VII Philosophy in context; VIII Religion as context; IX The quest as pursuit of wisdom.

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