LEADER 04407nam 22005295 450 001 9910255206803321 005 20200930191756.0 010 $a3-319-57547-3 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-57547-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000000587772 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-57547-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5051173 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000000587772 100 $a20170921d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGod and Ultimate Origins $eA Novel Cosmological Argument /$fby Andrew Ter Ern Loke 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (XV, 200 p. 3 illus.) 225 1 $aPalgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion,$x2634-6176 311 $a3-319-57546-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes. 327 $aChapter 1: The Question of Ultimate Origins -- Chapter 2: Is the Past Infinite? An Assessment of the Current Literature -- Chapter 3: Formulating a New Cosmological Argument -- Chapter 4: Is There a Causal Loop Which Avoids a First Cause? -- Chapter 5: Did the Initial State of Reality Begin to Exist Uncaused? -- Chapter 6: What is the Nature of the First Cause? -- Chapter 7: Conclusion. . 330 $a ?Professor Loke has rapidly become a leading thinker in metaphysics and philosophy of religion. His body of writings simply must be considered if one is going to treat a relevant topic appropriately?This is an exceptional book. I highly recommend it.? ?JP Moreland, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Biola University, USA, and co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology ?Loke brings together a wealth of resources to tackle the cosmological argument?The reader will find that Loke effectively interacts with recent literature in a dialogical and persuasively analytic fashion.? ?Bruce Reichenbach, Professor of Philosophy, Augsburg College, USA, and author of ?Cosmological Argument? in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy This book develops a novel argument which combines the Kalam with the Thomistic Cosmological Argument. It approaches an ongoing dispute concerning whether there is a First Cause of time from a radically new point of view, namely by demonstrating that there is such a First Cause without requiring the controversial arguments against concrete infinities and against traversing an actual infinite (although the book presents original defenses of these arguments as well). This book also develops a novel philosophical argument for the Causal Principle, namely that ?everything that begins to exist has a cause?, and offers a detailed discussion on whether a First Cause of time can be avoided by a causal loop. It also addresses epistemological issues related to the Cosmological Argument which have been relatively neglected by recent publications, and demonstrates (contra Hawking et al) the continual relevance and significance of philosophy for answering ultimate questions. Andrew Ter Ern Loke is Research Assistant Professor in Faith and Global Engagement at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of The Origins of Divine Christology (forthcoming), A Kryptic Model of the Incarnation (2014), and various articles in leading international journals in philosophy, science and religion, and theology. 410 0$aPalgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion,$x2634-6176 606 $aReligion?Philosophy 606 $aOntology 606 $aEpistemology 606 $aPhilosophy of Religion$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E33000 606 $aOntology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E22000 606 $aEpistemology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E13000 615 0$aReligion?Philosophy. 615 0$aOntology. 615 0$aEpistemology. 615 14$aPhilosophy of Religion. 615 24$aOntology. 615 24$aEpistemology. 676 $a210 700 $aLoke$b Andrew Ter Ern$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0938210 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255206803321 996 $aGod and Ultimate Origins$92113508 997 $aUNINA