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Philosophy of religion : the basics / / Richard E. Creel
| Philosophy of religion : the basics / / Richard E. Creel |
| Autore | Creel Richard E. <1940-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, : Wiley, 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina | 210 |
| Collana | New York Academy of Sciences |
| Soggetto topico |
Christianity
Religion - Philosophy |
| ISBN |
9781118619575
1118619579 9781118619346 111861934X 9781118619452 1118619455 |
| Classificazione |
161.1
210 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Philosophy of Religion: The Basics; Copyright; Contents; Preface for Teachers; Acknowledgments; Introduction; For Review, Reflection, and Discussion; For Further Reading; Chapter 1 What Is Religion?; 1.1 Creed; 1.2 Code; 1.3 Cult; 1.4 Community; 1.5 Toward a Definition of Religion; 1.6 Ze, Zer, Mer; For Review, Reflection, and Discussion; For Further Reading; Chapter 2 Six Conceptions of God; 2.1 Experiential Sources of Concepts of God; 2.2 Six Conceptions of God; 2.3 Religious Naturalism; 2.4 Pantheism; 2.5 Panentheism (Process Theism); 2.6 Deism
2.7 Classical Biblical Theism is based on divine revelation2.8 Classical Philosophical Theism; For Review, Reflection, and Discussion; For Further Reading; Chapter 3 Divine Attributes and Dilemmas; 3.1 What Is a Dilemma?; 3.2 Ways to Respond to a Dilemma; 3.3 Divine Attribute Dilemmas; 3.4 Proposed Solutions to the Preceding Dilemmas; 3.4.1 Unsurpassability; 3.4.2 Omnipotence; 3.4.3 Are Omnipotence and Omnibenevolence Incompatible?; 3.4.4 Immutability and Personhood; 3.4.5 Divine Omniscience and Human Freedom; 3.5 Open Theism; For Review, Reflection, and Discussion; For Further Reading Chapter 4 Human Language and Talk about GodFor Review, Reflection, and Discussion; For Further Reading; Chapter 5 Arguments about the Existence of God; For Review, Reflection, and Discussion; For Further Reading; Chapter 6 The Ontological Argument; 6.1 Is Anselm's Argument Decisive?; 6.2 A Version of Duns Scotus' Ontological Argument; For Review, Reflection, and Discussion; For Further Reading; Chapter 7 The Cosmological Arguments; 7.1 The First Three of "The Five Ways" of Thomas Aquinas; 7.2 Paul Edwards' Infinite Regress Argument against the Cosmological Argument 7.2.1 Two Criticisms of Edwards7.3 The Oscillatory Theory; 7.3.1 Criticism of the Oscillatory Theory; 7.4 The Kalam Cosmological Argument; For Reflection, Review, and Discussion; For Further Reading; Chapter 8 The Teleological or Design Arguments; 8.1 The Anthropic Principle; 8.2 The Multiverse; For Review, Reflection, and Discussion; For Further Reading; Chapter 9 God and Morality; 9.1 Two Arguments from Morality for Belief in the Existence of God; 9.2 The Relation of Morality to God; 9.2.1 The Divine Command Theory; 9.2.2 Theocentric Ethics; 9.2.3 Natural Law Ethics For Review, Reflection, and DiscussionFor Further Reading; Chapter 10 Religious Experience and Belief in God; 10.1 The Principle of Credulity and the Rationality of Belief in God; 10.2 Religious Experience as Evidence for the Existence of God; 10.3 Toward a Cumulative Argument for God; For Review, Reflection, and Discussion; For Further Reading; Chapter 11 Arguments against Belief in the Existence of God; 11.1 Evidentialism and the Burden of Proof; 11.2 Conceptual Arguments: Analysis of the Concept of God; 11.2.1 The Argument from Meaninglessness 11.2.2 The Arguments from Incoherence and Self-Contradiction |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910960580003321 |
Creel Richard E. <1940->
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| Hoboken, : Wiley, 2014 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Understanding theories of religion : an introduction / / Ivan Strenski
| Understanding theories of religion : an introduction / / Ivan Strenski |
| Autore | Strenski Ivan |
| Edizione | [Second edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (894 p.) |
| Disciplina | 200.7 |
| Collana | New York Academy of Sciences |
| Soggetto topico | Religion - Methodology |
| ISBN |
1-394-26101-2
1-118-45772-2 1-118-45770-6 |
| Classificazione |
161.1
200.7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Dedication page; Title page; Copyright page; Preface to the Second Edition; 1 Introduction; A New Kind of Method and Theory Book; From Religion to the "Problems of Religion"; But Why Did They Think That They Were Right?; Leading Questions: On Seeing Both the Forest and the Trees; References; PART I: The Prehistory of the Study of Religion; 2 Jean Bodin and Herbert of Cherbury; Forming a Common Mind about Religion in Early Modern Europe; Natural Religion, Naturism, the Religion of Nature, and Revealed Religion; Religious Wars, the New World, and the Concept of Religion
A Time of Problems and Creative Ferment TooJean Bodin: Comparing Law Teaches Us How To Compare Religions; The True Religion Must Be the Oldest Religion; Natural Religion Is the Essence of Religion: Herbert of Cherbury; Herbert's "Ambidextrous" Theory of Natural Religion; References; Further Reading; 3 Understanding Religion Also Began with Trying to Understand the Bible; The Bible's New Readers: Skeptics and Seekers; "Frodo Lives!" Myth, History, and Mystery; Biblical Criticism's New Methods; Higher Criticism: Internal Discrepancies; Spinoza Major Protestant Players: Ferdinand Christian Baur and the Tübingen SchoolThe Quest for the Historical Jesus: David Friedrich Strauss; What E.B. Tylor and Max Müller Learned from the Biblical Critics; References; Further Reading; PART II: Classic Nineteenth-Century Theorists of the Study of Religion; 4 Max Müller, the Comparative Study of Religion, and the Search for Other Bibles in India; Max Müller in the Center of a Whirlwind; The Bible and Beyond; Müller's Theological Liberalism and Comparison of Religions; The Discovery of the East-West Link in Sanskrit Max Müller's "Romantic" Comparativism and Western ImperialismThe Search for Germany's National Soul in India ... of All Places; German Unity via Hindu Myth; What Max Müller Can Teach Us about Studying Religion; References; Further Reading; 5 The Shock of the "Savage"; Mr. Tylor and His Science; Animism as the True Natural Religion and First Attempts at Science; 1859 and All That: The Discovery of the European "Primitive"; The Caves and Their Religion; Does Religious or Cultural Evolution Make Sense?; We Have Met the Primitives, and "They" Are "Us"; References; Further Reading 6 The Religion of the Bible EvolvesThe Religion of the Bible and Its Problems; The Great Renown and Short Heretical Life of William Robertson Smith; Abdullah Effendi Smith of Arabia; Robertson Smith's "Arabian Revolution" in the Study of Religion; Robertson Smith and Higher Criticism: Wellhausen, Comparison, and Context; Smith's Lectures on the Religion of the Semites; Robertson Smith Can Still Teach Us a Lot; References; Further Reading; 7 Setting the Eternal Templates of Salvation; The Long Life and Great Renown of Sir James Frazer; How Did We Get from "There" to "Here" ... Again? From Magic to Religion to Technology, Not Science |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796934603321 |
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Strenski Ivan
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| Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Understanding theories of religion : an introduction / / Ivan Strenski
| Understanding theories of religion : an introduction / / Ivan Strenski |
| Autore | Strenski Ivan |
| Edizione | [Second edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (894 p.) |
| Disciplina | 200.7 |
| Collana | New York Academy of Sciences |
| Soggetto topico | Religion - Methodology |
| ISBN |
1-394-26101-2
1-118-45772-2 1-118-45770-6 |
| Classificazione |
161.1
200.7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Dedication page; Title page; Copyright page; Preface to the Second Edition; 1 Introduction; A New Kind of Method and Theory Book; From Religion to the "Problems of Religion"; But Why Did They Think That They Were Right?; Leading Questions: On Seeing Both the Forest and the Trees; References; PART I: The Prehistory of the Study of Religion; 2 Jean Bodin and Herbert of Cherbury; Forming a Common Mind about Religion in Early Modern Europe; Natural Religion, Naturism, the Religion of Nature, and Revealed Religion; Religious Wars, the New World, and the Concept of Religion
A Time of Problems and Creative Ferment TooJean Bodin: Comparing Law Teaches Us How To Compare Religions; The True Religion Must Be the Oldest Religion; Natural Religion Is the Essence of Religion: Herbert of Cherbury; Herbert's "Ambidextrous" Theory of Natural Religion; References; Further Reading; 3 Understanding Religion Also Began with Trying to Understand the Bible; The Bible's New Readers: Skeptics and Seekers; "Frodo Lives!" Myth, History, and Mystery; Biblical Criticism's New Methods; Higher Criticism: Internal Discrepancies; Spinoza Major Protestant Players: Ferdinand Christian Baur and the Tübingen SchoolThe Quest for the Historical Jesus: David Friedrich Strauss; What E.B. Tylor and Max Müller Learned from the Biblical Critics; References; Further Reading; PART II: Classic Nineteenth-Century Theorists of the Study of Religion; 4 Max Müller, the Comparative Study of Religion, and the Search for Other Bibles in India; Max Müller in the Center of a Whirlwind; The Bible and Beyond; Müller's Theological Liberalism and Comparison of Religions; The Discovery of the East-West Link in Sanskrit Max Müller's "Romantic" Comparativism and Western ImperialismThe Search for Germany's National Soul in India ... of All Places; German Unity via Hindu Myth; What Max Müller Can Teach Us about Studying Religion; References; Further Reading; 5 The Shock of the "Savage"; Mr. Tylor and His Science; Animism as the True Natural Religion and First Attempts at Science; 1859 and All That: The Discovery of the European "Primitive"; The Caves and Their Religion; Does Religious or Cultural Evolution Make Sense?; We Have Met the Primitives, and "They" Are "Us"; References; Further Reading 6 The Religion of the Bible EvolvesThe Religion of the Bible and Its Problems; The Great Renown and Short Heretical Life of William Robertson Smith; Abdullah Effendi Smith of Arabia; Robertson Smith's "Arabian Revolution" in the Study of Religion; Robertson Smith and Higher Criticism: Wellhausen, Comparison, and Context; Smith's Lectures on the Religion of the Semites; Robertson Smith Can Still Teach Us a Lot; References; Further Reading; 7 Setting the Eternal Templates of Salvation; The Long Life and Great Renown of Sir James Frazer; How Did We Get from "There" to "Here" ... Again? From Magic to Religion to Technology, Not Science |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823361703321 |
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Strenski Ivan
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| Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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