The Virtue of Faith and Other Essays in Philosophical Theology : And Other Essays in Philosophical Theology.
Title:
The Virtue of Faith and Other Essays in Philosophical Theology : And Other Essays in Philosophical Theology.
Author:
Adams, Robert Merrihew.
ISBN:
9780195364781
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (283 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE: FAITH -- 1 The Virtue of Faith -- 2 Kierkegaard's Arguments Against Objective Reasoning in Religion -- 3 The Leap of Faith -- PART TWO: THE PROBLEM OF EVIL -- 4 Must God Create the Best? -- 5 Existence, Self-interest, and the Problem of Evil -- 6 Middle Knowledge and the Problem of Evil -- PART THREE: GOD AND ETHICS -- 7 A Modified Divine Command Theory of Ethical Wrongness -- 8 Autonomy and Theological Ethics -- 9 Divine Command Metaethics Modified Again -- 10 Moral Arguments for Theistic Belief -- 11 Saints -- 12 Pure Love -- PART FOUR: THE METAPHYSICS OF THEISM -- 13 Has It Been Proved That All Real Existence Is Contingent? -- 14 Divine Necessity -- 15 The Logical Structure of Anselm's Arguments -- 16 Flavors, Colors, and God -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
This collection brings together for the first time most of the work that Robert Merrihew Adams has contributed to the philosophy of religion. The sixteen essays, two never before published, include influential studies on several aspects of the relation between religion and ethics, including a comprehensive discussion of moral arguments for theistic belief, as well as treatments of the existence of God and the problem of evil in light of contemporary ideas about the metaphysics of individuality and modality. Adams defends belief in God from an epistemological standpoint that he characterizes as "skeptical realism.".
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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