1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910144412303321

Autore

Plantinga Alvin

Titolo

Knowledge of God [[electronic resource] /] / Alvin Plantinga and Michael Tooley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2008

ISBN

1-282-03000-0

9786612030000

1-4443-0130-6

1-4443-0131-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

Great debates in philosophy

Altri autori (Persone)

TooleyMichael <1941->

Disciplina

212.6

212/.6

Soggetti

God (Christianity) - Knowableness

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-256) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Against naturalism / Alvin Plantinga -- Does God exist? / Michael Tooley -- Reply to Tooley's opening statement / Alvin Plantinga -- Reply to Plantinga's opening statement ' Michael Tooley -- Can Robots think : reply to Tooley's second statement / Alvin Plantinga -- Closing statement and reponse to Plantinga's comments / Michael Tooley.

Sommario/riassunto

Is belief in God epistemically justified? That's the question at the heart of this volume in the Great Debates in Philosophy series, with Alvin Plantinga and Michael Tooley each addressing this fundamental question with distinctive arguments from opposing perspectives.The first half of the book contains each philosopher's explanation of his particular view; the second half allows them to directly respond to each other's arguments, in a lively and engaging conversationOffers the reader a one of a kind, interactive discussionForms part of the acclaimed Great Debates in



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783740603321

Autore

Hanby Michael <1966, >

Titolo

Augustine and modernity / / Michael Hanby

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-134-45265-9

1-280-02269-8

0-203-45185-6

0-415-28469-4

1-134-45266-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

Radical orthodoxy series

Classificazione

11.02

Disciplina

189.2

270.2092

Soggetti

Self - Religious aspects - Christianity - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600

Philosophy, Modern

Self (Philosophy) - History

Philosophy and religion - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-279) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Thinking with and about Augustine; 1 A grim paternity?; The alleged sins of the father; The grand architect and the builders; The West that never was: the theological critique; Love in the time of avarice: the postmodern critique; 2 De Trinitate and the aesthetics of salvation; The aesthetics of salvation; Delight and the beauty of God; The Body of Christ and the eros of faith; 3 Christology, cosmology and the mechanics of grace; On the intelligibility of the Pelagian controversy

Pelagianism: a problem of trinitarian theology?Creation and the mechanics of grace; Augustine's doxological self; 4 The subtle triumph of Pelagianism; On winning the battle and losing the war; Duelling cosmologies; Pelagianizing Augustine; 5 An Augustinian parody: Descartes and modern stoicism; An overlooked chapter in the story of modern origins; Why Augustine is not a Cartesian; Why Descartes is not Augustinian; Postscript: Modernity in Augustinian hindsight; Notes;



Primary sources and translations; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Augustine and Modernity is a fresh and challenging addition to current debates about the Augustinian origins of modern subjectivity and the Christian genesis of Western nihilism. It firmly rejects the dominant modern view that the modern Cartesian subject, as an archetype of Western nihilism, originates in Augustine's thought.  Arguing that most contemporary interpretations misrepresent the complex philosophical relationship between Augustine and modern philosophy, particularly with regard to the work of Descartes, the book examines the much overlooked contribution of Stoicism to the