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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818161903321

Autore

Adams Robert Merrihew

Titolo

The virtue of faith and other essays in philosophical theology / / Robert Merrihew Adams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1987

ISBN

1-280-43956-4

0-19-536478-3

1-4237-5842-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 pages)

Disciplina

200.1

Soggetti

Religion - Philosophy

Ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1 The Virtue of Faith; 2 Kierkegaard's Arguments Against Objective Reasoning in Religion; 3 The Leap of Faith; 4 Must God Create the Best?; 5 Existence, Self-interest, and the Problem of Evil; 6 Middle Knowledge and the Problem of Evil; 7 A Modified Divine Command Theory of Ethical Wrongness; 8 Autonomy and Theological Ethics; 9 Divine Command Metaethics Modified Again; 10 Moral Arguments for Theistic Belief; 11 Saints; 12 Pure Love; 13 Has It Been Proved That All Real Existence Is Contingent?; 14 Divine Necessity; 15 The Logical Structure of Anselm's Arguments; 16 Flavors, Colors, and God; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The author has been a leader in renewing philosophical respect for the idea that moral obligation may be founded on the command of God. This is a collection of his essays, two of them previously unpublished.