Philosophy of Religion A Guide and Anthology by Brian Davies

Notes on Contributors General Introduction Advice on Further Reading Part I Philosophy And Religious Belief 1 Faith and Reason in Harmony Thomas Aquinas 2 The Ethics of Belief W.K. Clifford 3 The Presumption of Atheism Antony Flew 4 Religious Belief as 'Properly Basic' Alvin Plantinga 5 Evidence and Religious Belief Norman Kretzmann 6 Grammar and Religious Belief D.Z. Phillips 7 The Groundlessness of Religious Belief Norman Malcolm Part II The Problem Of God-Talk 8 How Believers Find God-Talk Puzzling Augustine of Hippo 9 God-Talk is Evidently Nonsense A.J. Ayer 10 God-Talk is Not Evidently Nonsense Richard Swinburne 11 'Death by a Thousand Qualifications' Antony Flew 12 One Way of Understanding God-Talk Thomas Aquinas Part III Arguments For God's Existence Cosmological Arguments 13 A Concise Cosmological Argument from the Eleventh Century, Anselm of Canterbury 14 A Thirteenth-Century Cosmological Argument Thomas Aquinas 15 A Fourteenth-Century Cosmological Argument John Duns Scotus 16 A Seventeenth-Century Cosmological Argument Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 17 A Modern Cosmological Argument Herbert McCabe 18 Objections to Cosmological Arguments Paul Edwards 19 More Objections to Cosmological Arguments J.L. Mackie 20 Why is a Cause Always Necessary? David Hume 21 'Whatever Has a Beginning of Existence Must Have a Cause' G.E.M. Anscombe 22 Can There be an Endless Regress of Causes? James A. Sadowsky Design Arguments 23 Is the World Ruled by Providence? Thomas Aquinas 24 An Especially Famous Design Argument William Paley 25 We Cannot Know that the World is Designed by God A David Hume 26 The Limits of Design Arguments Immanuel Kant 27 God, Regularity, and David Hume R.G. Swinburne 28 Can Design Arguments be Defended Today? Robert Hambourger Ontological Arguments 29 Anselm Argues that God Cannot be Thought Not to Exist, Anselm of Canterbury 30 Gaunilo Argues that Anselm is Wrong, Gaunilo of Marmoutiers 31 Anselm Replies to Gaunilo, Anselm of Canterbury 32 Descartes Defends an Ontological Argument, Rene Descartes 33 Descartes Replies to Critics, Pierre Gassendi, Johannes Caterus, Rene Descartes 34 A Classic Repudiation of Ontological Arguments Immanuel Kant 35 A Contemporary Defense of Ontological Arguments Alvin Plantinga God and Human Experience 36 Why 'Knowing God by Experience' is a Notion Open to Question C.B. Martin 37 Can We Know God by Experience?, Peter Donovan 38 Why Should There Not Be Experience of God? William P. Alston Part IV What Is God? Omnipotent 39 A Modern Discussion of Divine Omnipotence Thomas V. Morris 40 Why Think of God as Omnipotent? Thomas Aquinas 41 Miracles and Laws of Nature Richard Swinburne 42 Why We Should Disbelieve in Miracles David Hume Knowing 43 Why Ascribe Knowledge to God? Thomas Aquinas 44 Omniscience and Human Freedom: a Classic Discussion Boethius 45 Problems for the Notion of Divine Omniscience Nelson Pike Eternal 46 Why Call God 'Eternal'? Thomas Aquinas 47 God is 'Everlasting', not 'Eternal' Nicholas Wolterstorff 48 A Modern Defence of Divine Eternity Eleonore Stump and Norman Kretzmann 49 A Different Modern Defense of Divine Eternity Paul Helm.

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• Author: Brian Davies
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Published: 2000
• Edition: 1st edition
• Pages: 754
• Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780198751946