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Tables of Contents for God
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
A feeling for the gods
1
35
God, literalism and poetry
1
3
A world full of gods
4
3
Descartes and the cosmic machine
7
2
Wordsworth and Blake: the gods and poetic imagination
9
5
Conflict among the gods
14
4
Friedrich Schleiermacher: a Romantic account of the gods
18
6
Rudolf Otto: the sense of the numinous
24
7
Martin Buber: life as meeting
31
2
Epilogue: the testimony of a secularist
33
3
Beyond the gods
36
31
Prophets and seers
36
3
The prophets of Israel and monotheism
39
5
Basil, Gregory Palamas and Maimonides: the apophatic way
44
6
Thomas Aquinas: the simplicity of God
50
3
The five ways of demonstrating God
53
4
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
57
3
The doctrine of analogy
60
2
Three mystics
62
5
The love that moves the sun
67
34
The 613 commandments
67
2
Pigs and other animals
69
2
The two great commandments
71
2
The Ten Commandments
73
5
Jesus and the Law
78
2
Calvin and the commandments
80
3
Faith and works
83
2
Theistic morality as fulfilling God's purpose
85
3
Kant, the categorical imperative and faith
88
8
God as creative freedom, affective knowledge and illimitable love
96
5
The God of the philosophers
101
39
God and Job
101
2
Plato and the gods
103
4
The vision of the Good
107
3
Appearance and reality
110
4
Augustine and creation ex nihilo
114
3
Aristotle and the Perfect Being
117
5
Augustine and Platonism
122
3
Anselm and Necessary Being
125
4
Evil, necessity and the free-will defence
129
4
Creation as a timeless act
133
3
Faith and understanding
136
4
The poet of the world
140
39
The timeless and immutable God
140
4
The rejection of Platonism
144
4
Hegel and the philosophy of Absolute Spirit
148
4
Marx and the dialectic of history
152
6
Pantheism and panentheism
158
4
Time and creativity
162
2
The redemption of suffering
164
3
History and the purposive cosmos
167
4
Process philosophy
171
4
The collapse of the metaphysical vision
175
4
The darkness between stars
179
40
Pascal: faith and scepticism
179
3
A.J. Ayer: the death of metaphysics
182
3
Scientific hypotheses and existential questions
185
3
Kierkegaard: truth as subjectivity
188
3
Sartre: freedom from a repressive God
191
2
Heidegger and Kierkegaard: the absolute paradox
193
3
Tillich: religious symbols
196
3
Wittgenstein: Pictures of human life
199
3
Religious language and forms of life
202
3
Religion and `seeing-as'
205
4
Spirituality without belief
209
3
Non-realism and God
212
3
The silence of the heart
215
4
The personal ground of being
219
36
God as omnipotent person
219
4
The problem of evil
223
1
Fichte, Schelling, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: beyond good and evil
224
3
Omniscience and creative freedom
227
1
God: person or personal?
228
3
Persons as relational
231
3
The idea of the Trinity
234
3
The revelatory roots of religion
237
4
Conclusion: seven ways of thinking about God
241
14
Bibliography
255
2
Acknowledgements
257
1
Index
258
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