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The acclaimed scholars contributing to this volume place under
scrutiny a fascinating alternative proposal for a pathway to
religious tolerance - that serious consideration of religious
diversity tends to reveal the weakness of support many have for
their religious commitments, and the humility produced tends to
result in religious tolerance. The authors illuminate the debate
within philosophy about the way beliefs are supported, the
controversy between internalism and externalism, and disagreement
about how humility and tolerance are related. Critical and
supportive views are represented so that the main lines of
agreement and disagreement rise to the surface and are mapped out
for the first time. The collection honours Philip Quinn who
advocated the pathway so rigorously that the special attention
given to his views focuses and deepens the critical discussion.
Original essays by some of the most respected contemporary
intellectuals in this field make this collection especially
attractive.
The acclaimed scholars contributing to this volume place under
scrutiny a fascinating alternative proposal for a pathway to
religious tolerance - that serious consideration of religious
diversity tends to reveal the weakness of support many have for
their religious commitments, and the humility produced tends to
result in religious tolerance. The authors illuminate the debate
within philosophy about the way beliefs are supported, the
controversy between internalism and externalism, and disagreement
about how humility and tolerance are related. Critical and
supportive views are represented so that the main lines of
agreement and disagreement rise to the surface and are mapped out
for the first time. The collection honours Philip Quinn who
advocated the pathway so rigorously that the special attention
given to his views focuses and deepens the critical discussion.
Original essays by some of the most respected contemporary
intellectuals in this field make this collection especially
attractive.
Religious diversity exists whenever seemingly sincere,
knowledgeable individuals hold incompatible beliefs on the same
religious issue. Diversity of this sort is pervasive, existing not
only across basic theistic systems but also within these theistic
systems themselves. Religious Diversity explores the breadth and
significance of such conflict. Examining the beliefs of various
theistic systems, particularly within Christianity, Judaism,
Hinduism and Buddhism, Basinger discusses seemingly incompatible
claims about many religious issues, including the nature of God and
the salvation of humankind. He considers particularly the work of
Hick, Gellman, Plantinga, Schellenberg, Alston, Wainwright, and
Quinn, applying their perspectives on 'exclusivism' and 'pluralism'
as they become relevant to the issues in question. Basinger's
survey of the relevant literature, proposed solutions, and fresh
insights offer an invaluable contribution not only for philosophers
of religion and philosophical theologians but for anyone interested
in the increasingly significant question of what a religious
believer can or cannot justifiably say about their religious
perspective.
If God is in control, are people really free? This question has
bothered Christians for centuries. And answers have covered a wide
spectrum. Today Christians still disagree. Those who emphasize
human freedom view it as a reflection of God's self-limited power.
Others look at human freedom in the order of God's overall control.
In this Spectrum Multiview volume, David and Randall Basinger have
put this age-old question to four scholars trained in theology and
philosophy. John Feinberg of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
and Norman Geisler of Dallas Theological Seminary focus on God's
specific sovereignty. Bruce Reichenbach of Augsburg College and
Clark Pinnock of McMaster Divinity College insist that God must
limit his control to ensure our freedom. Each writer argues for his
perspective and applies his theory to two practical case studies.
Then the other writers respond to each of the major essays,
exposing what they see as fallacies and hidden assumptions. This is
a lively and provocative volume. Spectrum Multiview Books offer a
range of viewpoints on contested topics within Christianity, giving
contributors the opportunity to present their position and also
respond to others in this dynamic publishing format.
Reason and Religious Belief, now in its fifth edition, explores
perennial questions in the philosophy of religion. Drawing from the
best in both classical and contemporary discussions, the authors
examine religious experience, faith and reason, the divine
attributes, arguments for and against the existence of God, divine
action (in various forms of theism), Reformed epistemology,
religious language, religious diversity, and religion and science.
Revised and updated to reflect current philosophical discourse, the
fifth edition offers new material on neuro-theology, the "new
Atheism," the intelligent design movement, theistic evolution, and
skeptical theism. It also provides more coverage of non-Western
religions-particularly Buddhism-and updated discussions of
evidentialism, free will, life after death, apophatic theology, and
more. A sophisticated yet accessible introduction, Reason and
Religious Belief, Fifth Edition, is ideally suited for use with the
authors' companion anthology, Philosophy of Religion: Selected
Readings, Fourth Edition (OUP, 2009).
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Andrew C. Koehl, David Basinger
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R1,510
R1,197
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Andrew C. Koehl, David Basinger
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R1,044
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Voted one of Christianity Today's 1995 Books of the Year The
Openness of God presents a careful and full-orbed argument that the
God known through Christ desires "responsive relationship" with his
creatures. While it rejects process theology, the book asserts that
such classical doctrines as God's immutability, impassibility and
foreknowledge demand reconsideration. The authors insist that our
understanding of God will be more consistently biblical and more
true to the actual devotional lives of Christians if we profess
that "God, in grace, grants humans significant freedom" and enters
into relationship with a genuine "give-and-take dynamic." The
Openness of God is remarkable in its comprehensiveness, drawing
from the disciplines of biblical, historical, systematic and
philosophical theology. Evangelical and other orthodox Christian
philosophers have promoted the "relational" or "personalist"
perspective on God in recent decades. Now here is the first major
attempt to bring the discussion into the evangelical theological
arena.
This Element is a critical overview of the manner in which the
concept of miracle is understood and discussed in contemporary
analytic philosophy of religion. In its most basic sense, a miracle
is an unusual, unexpected, observable event brought about by direct
divine intervention. The focus of this study is on the key
conceptual, epistemological, and theological issues that this
definition of the miraculous continues to raise. As this topic is
of existential as well as theoretical interest to many, there is no
reason to believe the concept of miracle won't continue to be of
ongoing interest to philosophers.
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