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What, if anything, does Jesus of Nazareth have to do with
philosophy? This question motivates this collection of new essays
from leading theologians, philosophers, and biblical scholars. Part
I portrays Jesus in his first-century intellectual and historical
context, attending to intellectual influences and contributions and
contemporaneous similar patterns of thought. Part II examines how
Jesus influenced two of the most prominent medieval philosophers.
It considers the seeming conceptual shift from Hebraic categories
of thought to distinctively Greco-Roman ones in later Christian
philosophers. Part III considers the significance of Jesus for some
prominent contemporary philosophical topics, including epistemology
and the meaning of life. The focus is not so much on how
"Christianity" figures in such topics as on how Jesus makes
distinctive contributions to such topics.
Bringing together for the first time many key articles by leading philosophers, this volume charts the problems, positions and themes concerning the issue of materialism.
"Contemporary Materialism" brings together the best recent work on
materialism from many of our leading contemporary philosophers.
This is the first comprehensive reader on the subject. The majority
of philosophers and scientists today hold the view that all
phenomena are physical. As a result materialism or 'physicalism' is
now the dominant ontology in a wide range of fields. This book
collects the key investigations into materialism, to reflect the
impact it has had on current thinking in metaphysics, philosophy of
mind and the theory of value. The papers in this collection chart
contemporary problems, positions and themes in materialism. At the
inivitation of the editors, many of the papers have been specially
up-dated for this collection: follow-on pieces written by the
contributors enable them to appraise the original paper and assess
developments since the work was first published. The book's
selections are largley non-technical and accessible to advanced
undergraduates. The editors have provided a useful general
introduction, outlining and contextualising this central system of
thought, as well as a topical bibliography.
In this book, Paul K. Moser proposes a new approach to inquiry
about God, including a new discipline of the ethics for inquiry
about God. It is an ethics for human attitudes and relationships as
well as actions in inquiry, and it includes human responsibility
for seeking evidence that involves a moral priority for humans.
Such ethics includes an ongoing test, a trial, for human
receptivity to goodness, including morally good relationships, as a
priority in human inquiry and life. Moser also defends an approach
to the evidence for God that makes sense of the elusiveness and
occasional absence of God in human experience. His book will be of
interest to those interested in inquiry about God, with special
relevance to scholars and advanced students in religious studies,
philosophy, theology, and biblical studies.
For many centuries philosophers have been discussing the problem of
evil - one of the greatest problems of intellectual history. There
are many facets to the problem, and for students and scholars
unfamiliar with the vast literature on the subject, grasping the
main issues can be a daunting task. This Companion provides a
stimulating introduction to the problem of evil. More than an
introduction to the subject, it is a state-of-the-art contribution
to the field which provides critical analyses of and creative
insights on this longstanding problem. Fresh themes in the book
include evil and the meaning of life, beauty and evil, evil and
cosmic evolution, and anti-theodicy. Evil is discussed from the
perspectives of the major monotheistic religions, agnosticism, and
atheism. Written by leading scholars in clear and accessible prose,
this book is an ideal companion for undergraduate and graduate
students, teachers, and scholars across the disciplines.
If God exists, where can we find adequate evidence for God's
existence? In this book, Paul Moser offers a perspective on the
evidence for God that centers on a morally robust version of theism
that is cognitively resilient. The resulting evidence for God is
not speculative, abstract, or casual. Rather, it is morally and
existentially challenging to humans, as they themselves
responsively and willingly become evidence of God's reality in
receiving and reflecting God's moral character for others. Moser
calls this 'personifying evidence of God,' because it requires the
evidence to be personified in an intentional agent - such as a
human - and thereby to be inherent evidence of an intentional
agent. Contrasting this approach with skepticism, scientific
naturalism, fideism, and natural theology, Moser also grapples with
the potential problems of divine hiddenness, religious diversity,
and vast evil.
In this book, Paul K. Moser offers a new approach to religious
experience and the kind of evidence it provides. Here, he explains
the nature of theistic and non-theistic experience in relation to
the meaning of human life and its underlying evidence, with special
attention given to the perspectives of Tolstoy, Buddha, Confucius,
Krishna, Moses, the apostle Paul, and Muhammad. Among the many
topics explored in this timely volume are: religious experience
characterized in a unifying conception; religious experience
naturalized relative to science; religious experience psychologized
in merely psychological phenomena; and religious experience
cognized relative to potential defeaters from evil, divine
hiddenness, and religious diversity. Understanding Religious
Experience will benefit those interested in the nature of religion
and can be used in relevant courses in religious studies,
philosophy, theology, Biblical studies, and the history of
religion.
Twenty-one previously published selections concerned with rational action are listed under three main categories: individual decision theory; game theory and group decision-making; reasons, desires and intentionality.
For centuries, theologians and philosophers, among others, have
examined the nature of religious experience. Students and scholars
unfamiliar with the vast literature face a daunting task in
grasping the main issues surrounding the topic of religious
experience. The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience offers
an original introduction to its topic. Going beyond an
introduction, it is a state-of-the-art overview of the topic, with
critical analyses of and creative insights into its subject.
Religious experience is discussed from various interdisciplinary
perspectives, from religious perspectives inside and outside
traditional monotheistic religions, and from various topical
perspectives. Written by leading scholars in clear and accessible
prose, this book is an ideal resource for undergraduate and
graduate students, teachers, and scholars across many disciplines.
This book explores the role of divine severity in the character and
wisdom of God, and the flux and difficulties of human life in
relation to divine salvation. Much has been written on problems of
evil, but the matter of divine severity has received relatively
little attention. Paul K. Moser discusses the function of
philosophy, evidence and miracles in approaching God. He argues
that if God's aim is to extend without coercion His lasting life to
humans, then commitment to that goal could manifest itself in
making human life severe, for the sake of encouraging humans to
enter into that cooperative good life. In this scenario, divine
agape is conferred as free gift, but the human reception of it
includes stress and struggle in the face of conflicting powers and
priorities. Moser's work will be of great interest to students of
the philosophy of religion, and theology.
If God exists, where can we find adequate evidence for God's
existence? In this book, Paul Moser offers a perspective on the
evidence for God that centers on a morally robust version of theism
that is cognitively resilient. The resulting evidence for God is
not speculative, abstract, or casual. Rather, it is morally and
existentially challenging to humans, as they themselves
responsively and willingly become evidence of God's reality in
receiving and reflecting God's moral character for others. Moser
calls this 'personifying evidence of God,' because it requires the
evidence to be personified in an intentional agent - such as a
human - and thereby to be inherent evidence of an intentional
agent. Contrasting this approach with skepticism, scientific
naturalism, fideism, and natural theology, Moser also grapples with
the potential problems of divine hiddenness, religious diversity,
and vast evil.
Three questions motivate this book s account of evidence for the
existence of God. First, if God s existence is hidden, why suppose
He exists at all? Second, if God exists, why is He hidden,
particularly if God seeks to communicate with people? Third, what
are the implications of divine hiddenness for philosophy, theology,
and religion s supposed knowledge of God? This book answers these
questions on the basis of a new account of evidence and knowledge
of divine reality that challenges skepticism about God s existence.
The central thesis is that we should expect evidence of divine
reality to be purposively available to humans, that is, available
only in a manner suitable to divine purposes in self-revelation.
This lesson generates a seismic shift in our understanding of
evidence and knowledge of divine reality. The result is a needed
reorienting of religious epistemology to accommodate the character
and purposes of an authoritative, perfectly loving God.
What, if anything, does Jesus of Nazareth have to do with
philosophy? This question motivates this collection of new essays
from leading theologians, philosophers, and biblical scholars. Part
I portrays Jesus in his first-century intellectual and historical
context, attending to intellectual influences and contributions and
contemporaneous similar patterns of thought. Part II examines how
Jesus influenced two of the most prominent medieval philosophers.
It considers the seeming conceptual shift from Hebraic categories
of thought to distinctively Greco-Roman ones in later Christian
philosophers. Part III considers the significance of Jesus for some
prominent contemporary philosophical topics, including epistemology
and the meaning of life. The focus is not so much on how
Christianity figures in such topics as on how Jesus makes
distinctive contributions to such topics.
Three questions motivate this book's account of evidence for the
existence of God. First, if God's existence is hidden, why suppose
He exists at all? Second, if God exists, why is He hidden,
particularly if God seeks to communicate with people? Third, what
are the implications of divine hiddenness for philosophy, theology,
and religion's supposed knowledge of God? This book answers these
questions on the basis of a new account of evidence and knowledge
of divine reality that challenges skepticism about God's existence.
The central thesis is that we should expect evidence of divine
reality to be purposively available to humans, that is, available
only in a manner suitable to divine purposes in self-revelation.
This lesson generates a seismic shift in our understanding of
evidence and knowledge of divine reality. The result is a needed
reorienting of religious epistemology to accommodate the character
and purposes of an authoritative, perfectly loving God.
Paul Moser's book defends what has been an unfashionable view in
recent epistemology: the foundationalist account of knowledge and
justification. Since the time of Plato philosophers have wondered
what exactly knowledge is. This book develops a new account of
perceptual knowledge which specifies the exact sense in which
knowledge has foundations. The author argues that experiential
foundations are indeed essential to perceptual knowledge, and he
explains what knowledge requires beyond justified true beliefs. In
challenging prominent sceptical claims that we have no justified
beliefs about the external world, the book outlines a theory of
rational belief.
In this book, Paul K. Moser offers a new approach to religious
experience and the kind of evidence it provides. Here, he explains
the nature of theistic and non-theistic experience in relation to
the meaning of human life and its underlying evidence, with special
attention given to the perspectives of Tolstoy, Buddha, Confucius,
Krishna, Moses, the apostle Paul, and Muhammad. Among the many
topics explored in this timely volume are: religious experience
characterized in a unifying conception; religious experience
naturalized relative to science; religious experience psychologized
in merely psychological phenomena; and religious experience
cognized relative to potential defeaters from evil, divine
hiddenness, and religious diversity. Understanding Religious
Experience will benefit those interested in the nature of religion
and can be used in relevant courses in religious studies,
philosophy, theology, Biblical studies, and the history of
religion.
For centuries, theologians and philosophers, among others, have
examined the nature of religious experience. Students and scholars
unfamiliar with the vast literature face a daunting task in
grasping the main issues surrounding the topic of religious
experience. The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience offers
an original introduction to its topic. Going beyond an
introduction, it is a state-of-the-art overview of the topic, with
critical analyses of and creative insights into its subject.
Religious experience is discussed from various interdisciplinary
perspectives, from religious perspectives inside and outside
traditional monotheistic religions, and from various topical
perspectives. Written by leading scholars in clear and accessible
prose, this book is an ideal resource for undergraduate and
graduate students, teachers, and scholars across many disciplines.
The theme of the testimony of the Spirit of God is found in various
Biblical writings, but it has received inadequate attention in
recent theology, Biblical studies, and the philosophy of religion.
This book corrects that inadequacy from an interdisciplinary
perspective, including theology, Biblical studies, philosophy of
religion, ethics, psychology, aesthetics, and apologetics. The book
includes previously unpublished work on the topic of the testimony
of the Spirit in connection with: its role in Biblical literature,
an ontology of the Spirit, conscience and the voice of God, moral
knowledge, religious diversity and spiritual testimony, psychology
and neuroscience, community and language, art and beauty, desire
and gender, apologetics, and the church and discernment. The book
includes a General Introduction that identifies some key
theological and philosophical topics that bear on the topic of the
testimony of the Spirit, and it concludes with a bibliography on
the testimony of the Spirit. The book pursues its topics in a
manner accessible to a wide range of readers from various
disciplines, including college students, educated non-academics,
and researchers.
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The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology contains 19 previously
unpublished chapters by today's leading figures in the field. These
chapters function not only as a survey of key areas, but as
original scholarship on a range of vital topics. Written accessibly
for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professional
philosophers, the Handbook explains the main ideas and problems of
contemporary epistemology while avoiding overly technical detail.
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