Philosophy of religion. / John Hick.
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TextPublication details: Englewood Cliffs,N.J : Prence-Hall, c1973.Edition: 2nd edDescription: ix,133 p.; 23 cmSubject(s): LOC classification: - BL 51 .H53
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| BOOKS | Saint Andrew's Theological Seminary Mosher Library | BL 51 .H53 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 29474 |
Contents:
The Judaic-Christian concept of God: Monotheism --
Infinite, self-existent --
Creator --
Personal --
Loving, good --
Holy --
Grounds for belief in God: the ontological argument --
The first cause and cosmological arguments --
The design (or teleological) argument --
The moral argument --
The argument from special events and experiences --
Probability and theistic argument --
Grounds for disbelief in God: the sociological theory of religion --
The Freudian theory of religion --
The challenge of modern science --
The problem of evil --
Human destiny: The immortality of the soul --
The re-creation of the psycho-physical person --
Does parapsychology help? --
Revelation and faith: The limits of proof --
The "propositional" view of revelation and faith --
Voluntarist theories of faith --
Tillich's conception of faith as ultimate concern --
A "non-propositional" view of revelation and faith --
A corresponding view of the Bible and theological thinking --
Problems of religious language: the peculiarity of religious language --
The doctrine of analogy (Aquinas) --
Religious statements as symbolic (Paul Tillich) --
Incarnation and the problem of meaning --
Religious language as noncognitive --
Another noncognitive analysis of religious language --
The problem of verification: the question of verifiability --
Two suggested solutions --
The idea of eschatological verification --
Some difficulties and complications --
"Exists," "fact," and "real" --
For further reading.
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