Faith in a hard ground
Subtitle: essays on religion, philosophy, and ethics
By: by G.E.M. Anscombe ; edited by Mary Geach and Luke Gormally.
Contributors: Geach, Mary.; Gormally, Luke.
Series: St. Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs
Publisher: Imprint Academic
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Exeter, U.K; Charlottesville, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781845401214; 9781845401436
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Doctrines; Christianity -- Philosophy; Religion -- Philosophy; Christian ethics; Ethics; Philosophy
Work titles: Essays.
Description: Essays by the celebrated twentieth-century philosopher, G.E.M. Anscombe.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is it to believe someone?; title: Faith; title: Prophecy and miracles; title: Hume on miracles; title: Paganism, superstition and philosophy; title: On the hatred of God; title: On attachment to things and obedience to God; title: Twenty opinions common among modern Anglo-American philosophers; title: The immortality of the soul; title: On transubstantiation; title: Authority in morals; title: On being in good faith; title: Morality; title: Sin; title: Two moral theologians; title: Contraception and chastity; title: On Humanae vitae; title: Address to the clergy : on contraception and natural family planning; title: Contraception, chastity and the vocation of marriage; title: The early embryo: theoretical doubts and practical certainties; title: The moral environment of the child; title: Christians and nuclear weapons designed for the destruction of cities; title: Simony in Africa; title: Philosophers and economists : two philosophers' objections to usury; title: On wisdom.