The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion William J. Wainwright (Editor), Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University ...

12. Miracles 304 13. Faith and Revelation 323 14. Morality and Religion 344 15. Death and the Afterlife 366 16. Religious Divers ...

revelation to us but can also be known through reason. And Aquinas proceeds to show how reason can establish them. What we would ...

lievers and nonbelievers alike were persuaded that Hume and Kant had clearly exposed their fatal weaknesses. Another was the dem ...

Three features of the revival are especially noteworthy. The first was a renewed interest in the scholastics and in seventeenth- ...

Blaise Pascal argued that although the evidence for the truth of the Christian religion is ambiguous, it is sufficient to convin ...

History of Religion and Kant's reflections on religion and morality are examples. The “hermeneutics of suspicion” practiced by M ...

rational credentials of claims about it. Continental philosophy of religion has tended to focus on religion and the human subjec ...

analytic, say, or feminist). In being critical, the chapters carefully assess the views presented on their topics or the strengt ...

end p. PART I PROBLEMS end p. end p. 1 DIVINE POWER, GOODNESS, AND KNOWLEDGE William L. Rowe In the major religions of the West— ...

nonpersonal power of being (Tillich 1957). Nevertheless, if one considers the long history of theological thought in the West, i ...

the same time. The first of these is a necessary state of affairs; it cannot fail to be actual. The second is a contingent state ...

goes, it does not go far enough. For not only does God now lack the power to bring about a state of affairs (e.g., George W. Bus ...

whereas (b) is not impossible by virtue of what God is said to cause (someone's suffering intensely for no good reason) being im ...

cannot lift it. So, God is not omnipotent. Various solutions to this paradox have been offered. The solution favored here is per ...

but it is also a part of his perfect goodness to enjoy supreme happiness. God's supreme happiness, as well as his moral perfecti ...

West, chiefly through the writings of Augustine and Pseudo-Dionysius. Two related ideas make up metaphysical goodness. The first ...

always what is best and wisest on the whole” (1738/1978, IV, 574). In short, given his absolute perfections, God is not free to ...

better world than W2, it is clear that a gracious God would not love the persons in W more than the persons in W2. Or, at the ve ...

others, who will develop his or her tastes for music, good literature, and so on. And in like manner, God will graciously love a ...