Philosophy of religion
Subtitle: thinking about faith
By: C. Stephen Evans and R. Zachary Manis.
Contributors: Manis, R. Zachary.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: The contours of Christian philosophy series
Publisher: IVP Academic
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Downers Grove, Ill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780830838769
Subjects: Religion -- Philosophy; Philosophical theology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: General preface; title: Preface to the second edition; title: What is philosophy of religion?; title: Philosophy of religion and other disciplines; title: Philosophy of religion and philosophy; title: Can thinking about religion be neutral?; title: Fideism; title: Neutralism; title: Critical dialogue; title: The theistic God : the project of natural theology; title: Concepts of God; title: The theistic concept of God; title: A case study : divine foreknowledge and human freedom; title: The problem of religious language; title: Natural theology; title: Proofs of God's existence; title: Classical arguments for God's existence; title: Ontological arguments; title: Cosmological arguments; title: Teleological arguments; title: Moral arguments; title: Conclusions: The value of theistic argument; title: Religious experience; title: Types of religious experience; title: Models for understanding experience; title: Experience of God as direct and mediated; title: Are religious experiences veridical?; title: Checking experiential claims; title: Special acts of God : revelation and miracles; title: Special acts; title: Theories of revelation; title: Is the traditional view defensible?; title: What is a miracle?; title: Is it reasonable to believe in miracles?; title: Can a revelation have special authority?; title: Religion, modernity, and science; title: Modernity and religious belief; title: Naturalism; title: Do the natural sciences undermine religious belief?; title: Objections from the social sciences; title: Religious uses of modern atheism; title: The problem of evil; title: Types of evil, versions of the problem, and types of response; title: The logical form of the problem; title: The evidential form of the problem; title: Horrendous evils and the problem of hell; title: Divine hiddenness; title: Faith(s) and reason; title: Faith : subjectivity in religious arguments; title: The evidentialist challenge to religious belief; title: Reformed epistemology; title: The place of subjectivity in forming beliefs; title: Interpretive judgments and the nature of a cumulative case; title: Can faith be certain?; title: Faith and doubt : can religious faith be tested?; title: What is faith?; title: Could one religion be true?