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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964930703321

Titolo

Debating Christian theism / / edited by J.P Moreland, Chad Meister, and Khaldoun A. Sweis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-19-998143-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (573 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

MorelandJ. P <1948-> (James Porter)

MeisterChad V. <1965->

SweisKhaldoun A. <1972->

Disciplina

230

Soggetti

Theology, Doctrinal

Apologetics

Theism

God - Proof

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Debates About God's Existence -- A Cosmological Argument -- 1. The Kalam Argument -- 2. Doubts About the Kalam Argument -- A Teleological Argument -- 3. The Fine-Tuning Evidence is Convincing -- 4. The Universe Shows No Evidence for Design -- An Ontological Argument -- 5. A Modal Version of the Ontological Argument -- 6. Lowe on "The Ontological Argument" -- A Moral Argument -- 7. Ethics Needs God -- 8. The Failure of Moral Arguments -- An Argument from Consciousness -- 9. The Argument from Consciousness -- 10. Consciousness, Theism, and Naturalism -- The Coherence of Theism: Part 1 -- 11. Problems with Omnipotence -- 12. Coherence of Divine Power -- The Coherence of Theism: Part 2 -- 13. Problems with Omniscience -- 14. The Coherence of Omniscience -- The Problem of Evil -- 15. Evil as Evidence Against God -- 16. God and Evil -- Evolution and Belief in God -- 17. Bayes and the Evolution of Religious Belief -- 18. Evolutionary Accounts of Religion and the Justification of Religious Belief -- The Nature of Human Beings -- 19. Human Persons



are Material and Immaterial (Body and Soul) -- 20. Human Persons are Material Only -- PART TWO: Debates About Specific Christian Beliefs -- Miracles and Christian Theism -- 21. Christianity and Miracles -- 22. It is Not Reasonable to Believe in Miracles -- Science and Christian Faith -- 23. Science is at Odds with Christianity -- 24. Science is not at Odds with Christianity -- The Doctrine of the Trinity -- 25. The Doctrine of the Trinity is Coherent -- 26. The Trinity is Incoherent -- The Atonement -- 27. Responsibility, Atonement, and Forgiveness -- 28. Problems with the Doctrine of Atonement -- The Incarnation -- 29. An Anselmian Defense of the Incarnation -- 30. The Incarnation Doctrine is Incoherent and Unlikely.

The Historical Reliability of the New Testament -- 31. The Gospels Are Reliable as Historically Factual Accounts -- 32. The Gospels Are Reliable as Memory and Testimony -- The Historical Jesus -- 33. Is the Christ of Faith also the Jesus of History? -- 34. The Christ of Faith is the Jesus of History -- The Resurrection of Jesus -- 35. Jesus Did Rise from the Dead -- 36. The Resurrection Probably Did Not Happen -- Only One Way to God? -- 37. Jesus is the Only Way to God -- 38. There Are Many Ways to God -- Heaven and Hell -- 39. It is Reasonable to Believe in Heaven and Hell -- 40. Heaven and Hell -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume offers groundbreaking dialogue by many of the most prominent scholars in the field in a definitive treatment of central issues in theism and Christian faith.