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Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion
A classic in the area, originally published in 1901, this book is a survey of the past work in the field of philosophy of religion, a conspectus of literature and comparison of methods and theologies from the Reformation to the start of the twentieth century. The Introduction part of the volume...
Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion
Among the various approaches to the question of the nature of the mind (or soul), Augustine’s philosophical arguments for the existence of an incorporeal and spiritual substance in man and against materialism are here thoroughly examined on their merits as a source of insight for contemporary...
Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
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
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion
Consisting of studies in Christian thought in relation to catastrophe, this book particularly looks at the ideas of Soren Kierkegaard and Karl Barth. When it was first published in 1940 this important investigation of ‘existential reality’ presented the view that the climate of crisis and...
Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion
Investigating the question ‘can theology, description of the divine reality, be made truly scientific?’, this book addresses logic and human knowledge alongside experimental religion. An important philosophic work by a prolific theologian also known for his later court case regarding conscientious...
Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion
The argument laid out in this book discusses and interprets the work of Hobbes in relation to religion. It compares a traditional interpretation of Hobbes where Hobbes’ use of conventional terminology when talking about natural law is seen as ironic or merely convenient despite an atheist viewpoint...
Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion
This is a major work by one of the best-known philosophical writers, representing the culmination of some twenty-five years’ work on the possibility of giving a rational defence of the claims of the religious man, and specifically the theist, in the face of modern criticisms. Dr Ewing’s object has...
Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion
Blaise Pascal began as a mathematical prodigy, developed into a physicist and inventor, and had become by the end of his life in 1662 a profound religious thinker. As a philosopher, he was most convinced by the long tradition of scepticism, and so refused – like Kierkegaard – to build a...
Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion
The twelve studies here are arranged in three distinct groups – Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic philosophy, Jewish mysticism, and modern philosophy. One theme that appears in various forms and from different angles in the first two sections is that of ‘Images of the Divine’. It figures not only in the...
Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion
What sense, if any, does it make to speak of God? This question, of such vital importance to religious commitment, occupies an important place in discussion among Anglo-American philosophers of religion whose orientation is logical analysis. ‘Metatheological scepticism’ is the view that denies the...
Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
