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Religion
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Title
Religion / Brendan Sweetman.
ISBN
9780826486264 (hbk.)
0826486266 (hbk.)
9780826486271 (pbk.)
0826486274 (pbk.)
Published
London ; New York : Continuum, c2007.
Physical Description
viii, 172 p. ; 22 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 04, 2011
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-167) and index.
Contents
1. Introduction : the God question
Is your worldview reasonable?
Some terminology
Faith and reason
2. First cause and design
The kalãm cosmological argument
St. Thomas's version of the cosmological argument
The teleological argument
The anthropic argument from design
3. Necessary being, morality and miracles
The ontological argument
God and morality
The argument from miracles
4. What is God like?
The classical view of God
Challenges to the classical view
God's omnipotence
God's omniscience
A note on Eastern views of God
5. God and evil
Evil, and the problem of evil
Problems of evil : logical, evidential, existential
The evidential problem of evil
Theistic replies : the free-will defence
Explaining evil within theism
Augustinian and Irenaean theodicies
6. Religious experience and God
What is a religious experience?
Two types of argument from religious experience
The contemporary argument : reformed epistemology
John Hick on religious experience
7. Religion and science
The Galileo affair
Atheism, naturalism and science
The theory of evolution
The evidence for evolution
Evolution, religion and creationism
Is evolution a threat to religious belief?
Mind, soul and immortality
8. Religious diversity : is there a true religion?
Religious exclusivism
Religious pluralism
Religious inclusivism
Notes
Guide to further reading
Index.
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