LEADER 04919oam 2200673I 450 001 9910824034103321 005 20240529164700.0 010 $a1-138-87087-0 010 $a1-317-85267-2 010 $a1-315-83037-X 010 $a1-317-85268-0 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315830377 035 $a(CKB)2550000001257048 035 $a(EBL)1665880 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001212387 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11695166 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001212387 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11226026 035 $a(PQKB)10527311 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1665880 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1665880 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10858632 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL588778 035 $a(OCoLC)876512902 035 $a(OCoLC)880445323 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001257048 100 $a20180331e20131955 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe modern predicament $ea study in the philosophy of religion /$fH.J. Paton 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2002. 215 $a1 online resource (406 pages) 225 1 $aMuirhead library of philosophy. Ethics ;$v9. 300 $aFirst published 1955 by George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 311 $a0-415-29574-2 311 $a1-306-57527-3 327 $aCover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Preface; Table of Contents; I Philosophy and religion; 1. The task; 2. Natural theology; 3. The stipulations of Lord Gifford; 4. Popularity; 5. The starting point; 6. The goal; 7. Philosophy and religion; II The Linguistic veto; 1. The linguistic veto; 2. Ordinary language; 3. Ideal language; 4. Analytic and synthetic propositions; 5. The principle of verification; 6. Theological statements; 7. The linguistic method; 8. The language of religion and theology; III The Theological veto 327 $a1. The theological veto2. A common scepticism; 3. The rejection of reason; 4. The closed circle; 5. The claims of reason; 6. Theological positivism; 7. The ban rejected; IV Religion; 1. The conflict of opinion; 2. What religion is not; 3. Religion and the whole man; 4. Man and the Whole; 5. The Idea of God; 6. Worship; 7. What religion is; V Religious aberration; 1. Aberrations and obsessions; 2. The obsession with the primitive; 3. The obsession with emotion; 4. The obsession with thinking; 5. The obsession with morality; 6. The spirit of intolerance; 7. Wildness and rigidity 327 $a8. The deviation into politics9. Hypocrisy; 10. The significance of aberration; VI The Way of Negation; 1. The way of negation; 2. Self-love and negation; 3. Morality and negation; 4. Self-love and religion; 5. The negative way in religion; 6. Must willing be self-centred ?; 7. Nihilism; VII Intellectual Impediments; 1. Different types of impediment; 2. Religion and science; 3. Religion and physics; 4. Religion and biology; 5. Religion and psychology; 6. Religion and history; 7. Religion and philosophy; 8. The predicament of religion; VIII Responses; 1. Responses 327 $a2. The way of the two compartments3. The way of archaism; 4. The way of absurdity; 5. The way of the kernel and the husk; 6. The way of allegory; 7. The way of religious experience; 8. The way of psychical research; 9. The need for philosophy; IX The Way of Experience; 1. Religious experience; 2. 'The Idea of the Holy'; 3. The rational and the non-rational; 4. Mysterium tremendum; 5. The faculty of divination; 6. Otto and Kant; 7. The numinous and the holy; 8. The appraisal of religious value; 9. The apprehension of God's existence; 10. Religion and philosophy; X The Mystic Way 327 $a1. The claims of mysticism2. Ordinary prayer; 3. The mystic way; 4. Ecstasy and the spiritual marriage; 5. The element of suffering; 6. The element of negation; 8. The question of validity; 7. The difficulties of criticism; 9. The voice of poetry; XI I and Thou; 1. Experience and encounter; 2. I-Thou and I-It; 3. The world of living relation; 4. Some difficulties; 5. The absolute relation; 6. The way to the encounter; 7. The mark of revelation; 8. The God of reflexion; XII The Argument From Perfection; 1. Religious thinking; 2. Arguments for the existence of God; 3. The ontological argument 327 $a4. The philosophical background 330 $aFirst published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. 410 0$aMuirhead library of philosophy ;$v9. 606 $aReligion$xPhilosophy 615 0$aReligion$xPhilosophy. 676 $a200 676 $a210 700 $aPaton$b H. J$g(Herbert James),$f1887-1969,$0152513 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824034103321 996 $aThe modern predicament$94159560 997 $aUNINA