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1. Mind and Deity

   Being the Second Series of a Course of Gifford Lectures on the General Subject of Metaphysics and Theism given in the University of Glasgow in 1940

   By John Laird

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   Complementary to Theism and Cosmology, this book begins with a discussion of philosophical and theological idea-ism, and our common beliefs concerning nature, man, and God. It is principally concerned with idealism - the place of ideals in reality rather than with the place of ideas. It discusses...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
2. On Human Freedom

   Being the Forwood Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion given in the University of Liverpool in November, 1945

   By John Laird

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   In the author’s opinion there are three primary conceptions of human freedom - non-coercion, autonomy and indeterminism. He presents his thoughts to define, compare, distinguish and correlate these, not merely with regard to the freedom of the human will, but also and more generally with regard to...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
3. Theism and Cosmology

   Being the First Series of a Course of Gifford Lectures on the General Subject of Metaphysics and Theism given in the University of Glasgow in 1939

   By John Laird

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

   Theism is one of the major types of metaphysics and cosmology is the general theory of the whole wide world. Must the world have an over-worldly source, or any source? Would "space" crumble unless God perpetually sustained it by his brooding omnipresence? Is all power, properly understood, divine...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge