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31. David Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion In Focus

    Edited by Stanley Tweyman

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

    Based on the original handwritten manuscript, this book provides a new, accurate edition of Hume’s important work, faithful to his original text, marginal notes, and changes. Stanley Tweyman’s comprehensive introduction gives an interpretation of the Dialogues as a whole, as well as close analysis...

    Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
32. Deity and Morality

    With Regard to the Naturalistic Fallacy

    By Burton F. Porter

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

    This book describes the "naturalistic fallacy", as attributed to Hume, that non-moral premises cannot logically entail a moral conclusion, and distinguishes it from the similarly named though subtly different fallacy identified by Moore in Principia Ethica by comparing and contrasting its presence...

    Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
33. Experience, Explanation and Faith

    An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion

    By Anthony O'Hear

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

    In this book Anthony O’Hear examines the reasons that are given for religious faith. His approach is firmly within the classical tradition of natural theology, but an underlying theme is the differences between the personal Creator of the Bible or the Koran and a God conceived of as the...

    Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
34. Faith after Foundationalism

    By D.Z. Phillips

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

    Foundationalism is the view that philosophical propositions are of two kinds, those which need supporting evidence, and those which in themselves provide the evidence which renders them irrefutable. This book, originally published 1988, describes the battle between foundationalism, which...

    Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
35. Faith and Logic

    Oxford Essays in Philosophical Theology

    Edited by Basil Mitchell

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

    When this book was originally published in 1957 there had been lively debates on the air and in the press about the bearing of modern philosophy upon Christianity, but there had been relatively little sustained discussion of the subject. This book of essays was the product of a small group of...

    Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
36. Faith and Philosophical Enquiry

    By D.Z. Phillips

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

    The concern of this book is the nature of religious belief and the ways in which philosophical enquiry is related to it. Six chapters present the positive arguments the author wishes to put forward to discusses religion and rationality, scepticism about religion, language-games, belief and the loss...

    Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
37. Faith Without Dogma

    In Quest of Meaning

    By Margaret Isherwood

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

    Life is a constant search for meaning, and reflective minds need to find deeper and more comprehensive meaning than that normally proffered by the orthodox teaching of any creedal religion. When this book was initially published in 1964, religion had begun to recognize the importance of psychology...

    Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
38. Heaven Wasn't His Destination

    The Philosophy of Ludwig Feuerbach

    By William B. Chamberlain

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

    If forced to state Feuerbach’s philosophical genealogy, one would have to say that he was son of Hegel, father of Marx, and half-brother of Comte. In his own day he had many a celebratory and many a vilifier. His philosophy has received very little direct treatment in the English language....

    Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
39. Humanity and Deity

    By Wilbur Marshall Urban

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion

    This book is an attempt at a restatement of the traditional view of the relation of God to man. In opposition to humanism which proposes a religion of pure humanity, and to the theology of crisis which, so to speak, teaches a religion of pure Deity, it maintains a view of religion and theology...

    Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
40. 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