The Challenge of religion : contemporary reading in philosophy and religion /
edited by Frederick Ferre and others.
- New York : Seabury press, c1982.
- xiii,359 p.; 24 cm.
Contents: Part one : The religious dimension : God and the sacred. Introduction / John E. Smith -- Philosophy of religion and the redefinition of philosophy / Kenneth L. Schmitz -- The structure of religion / John E. Smith -- The transcendent and the sacred / Louis Dupre -- The person God is / Peter A. Bertocci -- The element of mystery in the conception of God / Kenneth L. Schmitz -- Part two : Religious reasoning : proving God? Introduction / Frederick Ferre� -- Ways of religious knowing / James Ross -- The logic of analogy / Frederick Ferre� -- On proofs for the existence of God / James Ross -- The teleological argument / Louis Dupre -- The wider teleological argument for a personal God / Peter A. Bertocci -- Part three : Religious experience and religious expression. Introduction / John E. Smith -- The linguistic key / Frederick Ferre� -- In what sense can we speak of experiencing God? / John E. Smith -- On religious myths / Joseph J. Kockelmans -- Restitution of meaning in religious speech / Kenneth L. Schmitz -- The dialectic of the mystical experience / Louis Dupre -- The experience of the Holy and the idea of God / John E. Smith -- Part four : Religion and the human perdicament. Introduction / Joseph J. Kockelmans -- History as revelation / Louis Dupre -- Explanation in science and theology / Frederick Ferre� -- Reflections on the interaction between science and religion / Joseph J. Kockelmans -- Alien universe / Frederick Ferre� -- A theist explanation of evil / Peter A. Bertocci -- The search for a postmodern consciousness : the sense of mystery / Frederick Ferre�.
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