Title:
Religion : key concepts in philosophy
Author:
Sweetman, Brendan.
ISBN:
9780826486271
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
London : Continuum, 2007.
Physical Description:
viii, 172 p. ; 22 cm.
Series:
Key concepts in philosophy.
Key concepts in philosophy
Contents:
Introduction : the God question -- Is your worldview reasonable? -- Some terminology -- Faith and reason -- First cause and design -- kalãm cosmological argument -- St. Thomas's version of the cosmological argument -- teleological argument -- anthropic argument from design -- Necessary being, morality and miracles -- ontological argument -- God and morality -- argument from miracles -- What is God like? -- classical view of God -- Challenges to the classical view -- God's omnipotence -- God's omniscience -- note on Eastern views of God -- God and evil -- Evil, and the problem of evil -- Problems of evil : logical, evidential, existential -- evidential problem of evil -- Theistic replies : the free-will defence -- Explaining evil within theism -- Augustinian and Irenaean theodicies --
Religious experience and God -- What is a religious experience? -- Two types of argument from religious experience -- contemporary argument : reformed epistemology -- John Hick on religious experience -- Religion and science -- Galileo affair -- Atheism, naturalism and science -- theory of evolution -- evidence for evolution -- Evolution, religion and creationism -- Is evolution a threat to religious belief? -- Mind, soul and immortality -- Religious diversity : is there a true religion? -- Religious exclusivism -- Religious pluralism -- Religious inclusivism -- Notes -- Guide to further reading -- Index.