God and the Ethics of Belief
New Essays in Philosophy of Religion
- Editors:
- Andrew Dole, Amherst College, Massachusetts
- Andrew Chignell, Cornell University, New York
- Date Published: August 2009
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521118415
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Philosophy of religion in the Anglo-American tradition experienced a 'rebirth' following the 1955 publication of New Essays in Philosophical Theology (eds. Antony Flew and Alisdair MacIntyre). Fifty years later, this volume of essays offers a sampling of the best work in what is now a very active field, written by some of its most prominent members. A substantial introduction sketches the developments of the last half-century, while also describing the 'ethics of belief' debate in epistemology and showing how it connects to explicitly religious concerns and to the topics of the individual contributions. These topics include: the relationship between God and the natural laws; the metaphysics of bodily resurrection; the role of appeal to 'mystery' in the religious life; the justification of both theistic belief generally and more specific doctrinal beliefs; and the social-political aspects of religious faith and practice.
Read more- Contains entirely new essays by leading figures in Anglo-American philosophy of religion
- Features a substantial introduction characterizing the 'ethics of belief' debate in epistemology and showing how it connects to religion generally and to the issues dealt with in these essays in particular
- Modelled on the seminal volume, New Essays in Philosophical Theology (eds., Flew and MacIntytre, 1955), this collection provides a snapshot of English-speaking philosophy of religion fifty years later, together with an introduction that highlights the intervening developments in the field
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Review of the hardback '… of significance to philosophers and theologians interested in questions about the rational foundations of belief, and of the ethical (and religious) demands that belief places on us.' Ethical Perspectives
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- Date Published: August 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521118415
- length: 296 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.44kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction Andrew Chignell and Andrew Dole
1. Can God break the laws? Alvin Plantinga
2. Sleeping Beauty and the afterlife Linda Zagzebski
3. Free will, evil and divine providence Derk Pereboom
4. Two cheers for mystery! William Alston
5. The probability of the resurrection Richard Swinburne
6. Is God an unnecessary hypothesis? Peter van Inwagen
7. Direct warrant realism Keith DeRose
8. The epistemic authority of testimony and the ethics of belief Robert Audi
9. Kant on the rational instability of atheism John Hare
10. Does forgiveness undermine justice? Nicholas Wolterstorff
11. Can good Christians be good liberals? Philip Quinn.
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