Meaning, Truth, and God
Author: Leroy S. Rouner
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Published: 1982
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ISBN-13: 9780268086602
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Author: Leroy S. Rouner
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Published: 1982
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ISBN-13: 9780268086602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William A. Christian
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-12-08
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1400878144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author examines the logical structure of religious inquiry and discourse and the various meanings of religious utterances, and then develops principles of judgment and types of argument by which claims can be supported or challenged. Originally published in 1964. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Eugene William Lyman
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Published: 1933
Total Pages: 492
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald Wiebe
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-10-08
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 3110823438
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince its founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.
Author: Leroy S. Rouner
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780268013547
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Published: 1982
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Curtis L. Hancock
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-09-16
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1315480115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains a thorough and balanced series of dialogues introducing key topics in philosophy of religion, such as: the existence and nature of God, the problem of evil, religious pluralism, the nature of religious experience, immortality, and the meaning of life. A realistic cast of characters in a natural setting engages in a series of thought-provoking conversations; the dialogue format of these conversations captures typical student attitudes and questions concerning religious belief; allows comparison of important themes throughout the dialogues; encourages the interjection of insights, observations, questions, and objections; and introduces related points when they would naturally arise, instead of relegating them to a later chapter. As well as presenting a detailed and probing discussion, each dialogue includes a list of key terms, a set of study questions, and a bibliography - all of which make this an excellent text for courses in philosophy of religion and introductory philosophy classes.
Author: Tim Crane
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2017-10-30
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0674982738
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“[A] lucid and thoughtful book... In a spirit of reconciliation, Crane proposes to paint a more accurate picture of religion for his fellow unbelievers.” —James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review Contemporary debate about religion seems to be going nowhere. Atheists persist with their arguments, many plausible and some unanswerable, but these make no impact on religious believers. Defenders of religion find atheists equally unwilling to cede ground. The Meaning of Belief offers a way out of this stalemate. An atheist himself, Tim Crane writes that there is a fundamental flaw with most atheists’ basic approach: religion is not what they think it is. Atheists tend to treat religion as a kind of primitive cosmology, as the sort of explanation of the universe that science offers. They conclude that religious believers are irrational, superstitious, and bigoted. But this view of religion is almost entirely inaccurate. Crane offers an alternative account based on two ideas. The first is the idea of a religious impulse: the sense people have of something transcending the world of ordinary experience, even if it cannot be explicitly articulated. The second is the idea of identification: the fact that religion involves belonging to a specific social group and participating in practices that reinforce the bonds of belonging. Once these ideas are properly understood, the inadequacy of atheists’ conventional conception of religion emerges. The Meaning of Belief does not assess the truth or falsehood of religion. Rather, it looks at the meaning of religious belief and offers a way of understanding it that both makes sense of current debate and also suggests what more intellectually responsible and practically effective attitudes atheists might take to the phenomenon of religion.
Author: Bruce Marshall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0521453526
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo closely related questions receive distinctively theological answers in this study: What is truth? and How can we tell whether what we have said is true? Bruce Marshall proposes that the Christian community's identification of God as the Trinity serves as the key to a theologically adequate treatment of these questions. Professor Marshall argues on trinitarian grounds that the Christian way of identifying God ought to have unrestricted primacy when it comes to the justification of belief, and he proposes a trinitarian way of reshaping the concept of truth. Direct engagement with the current philosophical debate about truth, meaning and belief (in Quine and others) suggests that a trinitarian account of epistemic justification and truth is also more philosophically compelling than the approaches generally favoured in modern theology, as exemplified by Schleiermacher, Ritschl, Rahner and others. Marshall offers a contemporary way of conceiving of the Christian God as 'the truth'.
Author: Mortimer Jerome Adler
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMortimer J. Adler's search for a resolution to the age-old conflict between logic and faith. Dr. Adler aims to discover where the truth lies among the plurality of the world's organized religions, as dictated by the principle of the unity of truth.