The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion

in prison is an evil—if you don't think so, I invite you to spend a day in prison. Let's suppose that the only good that results ...

felonious assault—and this despite the fact that ten years in prison, considered as a precise span of days, is an arbitrary puni ...

countless horrors left in the world—his plan requires the actual existence of countless horrors—and the victim or victims of any ...

earned income and all profits would be the same as not having a money economy at all). And where we draw the line is an arbitrar ...

horrors. But one must make an end somewhere. The trouble with real philosophical debates is that they almost never come to a nea ...

For another important but very different discussion of the problem of evil, see Eleonore Stump's Stob Lectures, Faith and the Pr ...

Eleonore Stump and Michael Murray, eds., The Big Questions: Philosophy of Religion (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999); in Joel Feinberg a ...

All of these present interesting topics for study. But philosophers have been narrowly selective in their approach to the field. ...

thought of as personal in the way God is in “theistic” religions like Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. But I cannot aspire here ...

verificationists want to treat as verifiable and exclude those they do not. Here is a simple example of the latter. We can take ...

a naturalistic Trinity. He even includes the unity of the three persons in one God under the guise of the essential unity of all ...

the epistemic status of beliefs that presuppose that existence? And if Christianity is based, at least partly, on certain belief ...

understand “grace” or “love” (“agape”) or “spiritual” or “glory” as they are used in Christian discourse one must be sufficientl ...

The foregoing had the function of clearing the ground for the discussion of reference to God and the status of predicates (conce ...

end p.228 runs as follows. First there is an initial “baptism.” There the practice of using that name to refer to that entity is ...

of this training in the practice, those descriptions do not constitute our only means of picking out God. We also think of God a ...

What important difference, if any, does it make whether a referring practice is primarily direct or descriptive? Here are two. ( ...

claims. Hence, we take for granted that what look like statements about God do have a truth value and go on from there to raise ...

are true of God. It is, no doubt, psychologically possible for someone to apply terms to God in exactly the sense in which they ...

chapter I consider several kinds of difference in the order of their radicality, what can be said for and against them, and thei ...