New Essays in Philosophical Theology
New Essays in Philosophical Theology

Author: Anthony Flew

Publisher: SCM Press

Published: 2012-01-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780334046219

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This book is among the most promising and most important in its particular field to be published within recent years. Indeed, there is no other in which men trained in the school of philosophy dominant in England today have sought as they do here to come to terms with Christian theology.' (British Weekly) 'What is really appealing about these essays is not a new sophistication but a refreshing naivety and transparent sincerity, a kind of virginal approach to the old problems which, expressed in vigorous contemporary English, makes the book eminently attractive and readable.' (The Times Literary Supplement)

Ritualized Faith
Ritualized Faith

Author: Terence Cuneo

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 0198757751

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Central to the lives of the religiously committed are not simply religious convictions but also religious practices. The religiously committed, for example, regularly assemble to engage in religious rites, including corporate liturgical worship. Although the participation in liturgy is central to the religious lives of many, few philosophers have given it attention. In this collection of essays, Terence Cuneo turns his attention to liturgy, contending that the topic proves itself to be philosophically rich and rewarding. Taking the liturgical practices of Eastern Christianity as its focal point, Ritualized Faith examines issues such as what the ethical importance of ritualized religious activities might be, what it is to immerse oneself in such activities, and what the significance of liturgical singing and iconography are. In doing so, Cuneo makes sense of these liturgical practices and indicates why they deserve a place in the religiously committed life.

Rationality, Religious Belief, and Moral Commitment
Rationality, Religious Belief, and Moral Commitment

Author: Robert Audi

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13:

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This book is unified by three broad concerns: the rationality of belief in God, the relation between religion and morality, and the explication of the concept of God. The essays are, however, marked by diversity. Some focus on historical figures, such as Aquinas and Locke; others bring recent epistemological and metaphysical developments to bear on problems of religious belief. Some of the papers explore neglected issues central to religious practice, such as the question of how total devotion to God can permit other deep commitments; others apply philosophical distinctions from within a religious tradition, for example, in setting out a Christian approach to the problem of evil.

Essays on Religion and Education
Essays on Religion and Education

Author: Richard Mervyn Hare

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9780198249962

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R. M. Hare, one of the most widely discussed of today's moral philosophers, here presents his most important essays on religion and education, in which he brings together the theoretical and the practical.

Essays on Philosophy and Religious Studies
Essays on Philosophy and Religious Studies

Author: LIT Verlag

Publisher: LIT Verlag

Published: 2022-11-21

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 3643964625

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Analecta Bruxellensia has been since 1996 the annual review of the Protestant Faculties of Theology and Religious Studies (FUTP (French) and FPTR (Dutch)) in Brussels. Analecta 21 is a varied number. Three themes are developed covering exegetical, historical, sociological, theological and philosophical fields. The first explores hermeneutics related to the understanding and assimilation of the biblical text; the second addresses the weight of ideology in the construction of narratives invoked in the representation of the Other; the third pursues this theme of encounter and otherness in various historical perspectives. From a queer exegesis of the narrative of Acts 8 to the question of the extent of Christ's salvation in the hypothesis of inhabited worlds in science fiction literature, the eclecticism of these academic contributions, as well as their relevance to contemporary debates, promise the reader multiple changes of scenery and genuinely new thinking. This issue also includes a previously unpublished contribution by Paul Ricœur, a restitution of a three-speaker conference given in January 2000 on the theme of justice between ethics and law.

Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament
Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament

Author: Thomas Nagel

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 0195394119

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This volume collects recent essays and reviews by Thomas Nagel in three subject areas. The first section, including the title essay, is concerned with religious belief and some of the philosophical questions connected with it, such as the relation between religion and evolutionary theory, the question of why there is something rather than nothing, and the significance for human life of our place in the cosmos. It includes a defense of the relevance of religion to science education. The second section concerns the interpretation of liberal political theory, especially in an international context. A substantial essay argues that the principles of distributive justice that apply within individual nation-states do not apply to the world as a whole. The third section discusses the distinctive contributions of four philosophers to our understanding of what it is to be human--the form of human consciousness and the source of human values.

Christian Philosophy of Religion
Christian Philosophy of Religion

Author: C. P. Ruloff

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780268040376

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This book celebrates the work of Stephen T. Davis, who applied formal tools of philosophy to the articulation of Christian doctrine, in philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, and biblical studies.

God and the Ethics of Belief
God and the Ethics of Belief

Author: Andrew Dole

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-06-06

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1139446606

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Philosophy of religion in the Anglo-American tradition experienced a 'rebirth' following the 1955 publication of New Essays in Philosophical Theology (eds. Antony Flew and Alisdair MacIntyre). Fifty years later, this volume of essays offers a sampling of the best work in what is now a very active field, written by some of its most prominent members. A substantial introduction sketches the developments of the last half-century, while also describing the 'ethics of belief' debate in epistemology and showing how it connects to explicitly religious concerns and to the topics of the individual contributions. These topics include: the relationship between God and the natural laws; the metaphysics of bodily resurrection; the role of appeal to 'mystery' in the religious life; the justification of both theistic belief generally and more specific doctrinal beliefs; and the social-political aspects of religious faith and practice.

God As Reason
God As Reason

Author: Vittorio Hösle

Publisher:

Published: 2022-08-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780268206192

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Hosle presents a systematic exploration of the relation between theology and philosophy, examining the problems of rational theology.

Philosophical Works
Philosophical Works

Author: Joseph C. McLelland

Publisher: Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies

Published: 2018-04-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780999552766

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This volume is devoted to Vermigli's philosophical writings, consisting of topics from commentaries with sections on "reason and revelation," "body and soul," "knowledge of God," "providence, miracles, and responsibility," and "freewill and predestination." Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499-1562) is considered to be one of the most important Italian reformers of the early modern period. Martyr is the subject of renewed interest for historical and theological scholars. The Peter Martyr Library, a series of critical English translations of the chief works of Peter Martyr Vermigli, allows his own words in context to speak for themselves.