TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hick,John
TI  - Philosophy of religion.
AV  - BL 51 .H53
PY  - 1973///
CY  - Englewood Cliffs,N.J
PB  - Prence-Hall
KW  - Religion
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - 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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