Contributor
Pojman, Louis P.
Edition Statement:5th ed.
Imprint:Australia ; Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2008.
Descriptionxvi, 591 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Pt. 1. Traditional arguments for the existence of God -- The ontological argument / St. Anselm -- A critique of the ontological argument / Immanuel Kant -- The five ways / Thomas Aquinas -- The argument from contingency / Samuel Clarke -- A critique of the cosmological argument / Paul Edwards -- An examination of the cosmological argument / William Rowe -- The Kalam cosmological argument / William Lane Craig and J. P. Moreland -- A critique of the Kalam cosmological argument / Paul Draper -- The watch and the watchmaker / William Paley -- A critique of the design argument / David Hume -- The argument from design / Richard Swinburne -- A scientific argument for the existence of God / Robin Collins -- Pt. 2. The argument from religious experience -- Selections of mystical experiences -- Mysticism / William James -- The future of an illusion / Sigmund Freud -- The argument from religious experience / C. D. Broad -- A critique of the argument from religious experience / Louis P. Pojman -- Religious experience and religious belief / William P. Alston -- Pt. 3. The problem of evil -- The argument from evil / David Hume -- Theodicy : a defense of theism / Gottfried Leibniz -- Rebellion / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- Evil and soul-making / John Hick -- A critique of Hick's theodicy / Edward H. Madden and Peter H. Hare -- Evil and omnipotence / J. L. Mackie -- The free will defense / Alvin Plantinga -- The inductive argument from evil against the existence of God / William Rowe -- Evolution and the problem of evil / Paul Draper -- Pt. 4. The attributes of God -- Temporal eternity / Stephen T. Davis -- The God beyond time / Hugh J. McCann -- Divine foreknowledge and human free will / St. Augustine -- God's foreknowledge and human free will are incompatible / Nelson Pike -- God's foreknowledge and human free will are compatible / Alvin Plantinga -- Is God's power limited? / Thomas Aquinas -- Some puzzles concerning omnipotence / George Mavrodes -- The logic of omnipotence / Harry G. Frankfurt -- Pt. 5. Miracles and revelation -- Against miracles / David Hume -- Of 'Of miracles' / Peter Van Inwagen -- Miracles and testimony / J. L. Mackie -- Evidence for the resurrection / Richard Swinburne -- Hyperspace and Christianity / Hud Hudson -- Pt. 6. Death and immortality -- Immortality of the soul / Plato -- The finality of death / Bertrand Russell -- Immortality and resurrection / John Hick -- Personal identity and life after death / Jeffrey Olen -- A Hindu theory of life, death, and reincarnation / Prasannatma Das -- Pt. 7. Faith and reason -- The wager / Blaise Pascal -- The ethics of belief / W. K. Clifford -- The will to believe / William James -- Rational theistic belief without proof / John Hick -- Religious belief without evidence / Alvin Plantinga -- A critique of Plantinga's religious epistemology / Michael Martin -- Faith, hope, and doubt / Louis P. Pojman -- Pt. 8. Science, religion, and evolution -- Science versus religion / Richard Dawkins -- Nonoverlapping magisteria / Stephen Jay Gould -- Faith and science : lessons from the Galileo case and message on evolution / Pope John Paul II -- Signs of intelligence : a primer on the detection of intelligent design / William Dembski -- Molecular machines : experimental support for the design inference / Michael Behe -- Born-again creationism / Philip Kitcher -- Natural providence (or design trouble) / Michael J. Murray -- An evolutionary argument against naturalism / Alvin Plantinga -- Commonsense naturalism / Michael Bergmann -- Pt. 9. Religious pluralism -- Religious pluralism and ultimate reality / John Hick -- A defense of religious exclusivism / Alvin Plantinga -- Hick's religious pluralism and "reformed epistemology" -- a middle ground / David Basinger -- Buddhism, Christianity, and the prospects for world religion / Dalai Lama -- God, commitment, and other faiths : pluralism versus relativism / Joseph Runzo -- Pt. 10. Religion and ethics -- Morality and religion / Plato -- A modified divine command theory of ethical wrongness / Robert M. Adams -- A free man's worship / Bertrand Russell -- Religion and the queerness of morality / George Mavrodes.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 587-591).
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