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Tables of Contents for Philosophy of Religion
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Introduction
1
1
What Is the Philosophy of Religion?
1
4
The Judaic-Christian Concept of God
5
10
Monotheism
5
2
Infinite, Self-existent
7
2
Creator
9
1
Personal
10
1
Loving, Good
11
2
Holy
13
2
Arguments for the Existence of God
15
15
The Ontological Argument
15
5
The First-Cause and Cosmological Arguments
20
3
The Design (or Teleological) Argument
23
3
Theism and Probability
26
2
The Moral Argument
28
2
Arguments Against the Existence of God
30
9
The Sociological Theory of Religion
30
3
The Freudian Theory of Religion
33
2
The Challenge of Modern Science
35
4
The Problem of Evil
39
17
The Problem
39
2
The Augustinian Theodicy
41
3
The Irenaean Theodicy
44
4
Process Theodicy
48
8
Revelation and Faith
56
12
The Propositional View of Revelation and Faith
56
3
Voluntarist Theories of Faith
59
3
Tillich's Conception of Faith as Ultimate Concern
62
2
A Nonpropositional View of Revelation and Faith
64
4
Evidentialism, Foundationalism, and Rational Belief
68
14
The Limits of Proof
68
3
Rational Belief Without Proofs
71
4
Basic Religious Beliefs
75
2
The Foundational Religious Belief
77
3
The Risk of Belief
80
2
Problems of Religious Language
82
18
The Peculiarity of Religious Language
82
1
The Doctrine of Analogy (Aquinas)
83
2
Religious Statements as Symbolic (Tillich)
85
3
Incarnation and the Problem of Meaning
88
1
Religious Language as Noncognitive
89
3
Braithwaite's Noncognitive Theory
92
4
The Language-Game Theory
96
4
The Problem of Verification
100
9
The Question of Verifiability
100
3
The Idea of Eschatological Verification
103
2
Some Difficulties and Complications
105
2
``Exists,'' ``Fact,'' and ``Real''
107
2
The Conflicting Truth Claims of Different Religions
109
11
Many Faiths, All Claiming to be True
109
1
Critique of the Concept of ``A Religion''
110
2
Toward a Possible Solution
112
5
A Philosophical Framework for Religious Pluralism
117
3
Human Destiny: Immortality and Resurrection
120
11
The Immortality of the Soul
120
2
The Re-creation of the Psychophysical Person
122
3
Does Parapsychology Help?
125
4
Resuscitation Cases
129
2
Human Destiny: Karma and Reincarnation
131
12
The Popular Concept
131
4
The Vedantic Concept
135
5
A Demythologized Interpretation
140
3
For Further Reading
143
2
Index
145