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Despite its name, "naturalism" as a world-view turns out to be
rather unnatural in its strict and more consistent form of
materialism and determinism. This is why a number of naturalists
opt for a broadened version that includes objective moral values,
intrinsic human dignity, consciousness, beauty, personal agency,
and the like. But in doing so, broad naturalism begins to look more
like theism. As many strict naturalists recognize, broad naturalism
must borrow from the metaphysical resources of a theistic
world-view, in which such features are very natural, common
sensical, and quite "at home" in a theistic framework. The
Naturalness of Belief begins with a naturalistic philosopher's own
perspective of naturalism and naturalness. The remaining chapters
take a multifaceted approach in showing theism's naturalness and
greater explanatory power. They examine not only rational reasons
for theism's ability to account for consciousness, intentionality,
beauty, human dignity, free will, rationality, and knowledge; they
also look at common sensical, existential, psychological, and
cultural reasons-in addition to the insights of the cognitive
science of religion.
God Never Changes Or does he? God has been getting a makeover of
late, a 'reinvention' that has incited debate and troubled scholars
and laypeople alike. Modern theological sectors as diverse as
radical feminism and the new open theism movement are attacking the
classical Christian view of God and vigorously promoting their own
images of Divinity. God Under Fire refutes the claim that major
attributes of the God of historic Christianity are false and
outdated. This book responds to some increasingly popular alternate
theologies and the ways in which they cast classical Christian
theism in a negative light. Featuring an impressive cast of
world-class biblical scholars, philosophers, and apologists, God
Under Fire begins by addressing the question, Should the God of
Historic Christianity Be Replaced? From there, it explores issues
as old as time and as new as the inquest into the openness of God.
How, for instance, does God risk, relate, emote, and change? Does
he do these things, and if so, why? These and other questions are
investigated with clarity, bringing serious scholarship into
popular reach. Above all, this collection of essays focuses on the
nature of God as presented in the Scriptures and as Christians have
believed for centuries. God Under Fire builds a solid and appealing
case for the God of classical Christian theism, who in recent
years---as through the centuries---has been the God under fire."
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Hypocrisy (Hardcover)
James S Spiegel
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When it comes to contemporary philosophical problems, metaphysical
idealism-or Berkeleyan immaterialism-is not taken seriously by most
philosophers, not to mention the typical Christian layperson. This
state of affairs deserves some attempt at rectification, since
Idealism has considerable explanatory power as a metaphysical
thesis and provides numerous practical and theoretical benefits.
Such thinkers as George Berkeley and Jonathan Edwards believed that
Idealism is especially amenable to a Christian perspective, both
because it provides a plausible way of conceptualizing the world
from a theistic standpoint and because it effectively addresses
skeptical challenges to the Christian faith. The contributors to
this volume explore a variety of ways in which the case can be made
for this claim, including potential solutions to philosophical
problems related to the nature of time, the ontology of physical
objects, the mind-body problem, and the nature of science.
In the recent history of philosophy few works have appeared which
favorably portray Idealism as a plausible philosophical view of the
world. Considerably less has been written about Idealism as a
viable framework for doing theology. While the most recent and
significant works on Idealism, composed by the late John Foster
(Case for Idealism and A World for Us: The Case for
Phenomenological Idealism), have put this theory back on the
philosophical map, no such attempt has been made to re-introduce
Idealism to contemporary Christian theology. Idealism and Christian
Theology is such a work, retrieving ideas and arguments from its
most significant modern exponents (especially George Berkeley and
Jonathan Edwards) in order to assess its value for present and
future theological construction. As a piece of constructive
philosophical-theology itself, this volume considers the
explanatory power an Idealist ontology has for contemporary
Christian theology.
When it comes to contemporary philosophical problems, metaphysical
idealism-or Berkeleyan immaterialism-is not taken seriously by most
philosophers, not to mention the typical Christian layperson. This
state of affairs deserves some attempt at rectification, since
Idealism has considerable explanatory power as a metaphysical
thesis and provides numerous practical and theoretical benefits.
Such thinkers as George Berkeley and Jonathan Edwards believed that
Idealism is especially amenable to a Christian perspective, both
because it provides a plausible way of conceptualizing the world
from a theistic standpoint and because it effectively addresses
skeptical challenges to the Christian faith. The contributors to
this volume explore a variety of ways in which the case can be made
for this claim, including potential solutions to philosophical
problems related to the nature of time, the ontology of physical
objects, the mind-body problem, and the nature of science.
In the recent history of philosophy few works have appeared which
favorably portray Idealism as a plausible philosophical view of the
world. Considerably less has been written about Idealism as a
viable framework for doing theology. While the most recent and
significant works on Idealism, composed by the late John Foster
(Case for Idealism and A World for Us: The Case for
Phenomenological Idealism), have put this theory back on the
philosophical map, no such attempt has been made to re-introduce
Idealism to contemporary Christian theology. Idealism and Christian
Theology is such a work, retrieving ideas and arguments from its
most significant modern exponents (especially George Berkeley and
Jonathan Edwards) in order to assess its value for present and
future theological construction. As a piece of constructive
philosophical-theology itself, this volume considers the
explanatory power an Idealist ontology has for contemporary
Christian theology.
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