PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: A contemporary introduction

202 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS Suppose that God exists, and is omnipotent and omniscient. Then God will lack no power, ...

ARGUMENTS FOR MONOTHEISM 203 Argument for 2 It is not logically impossible that X have logically contingent existence and yet it ...

204 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS The truth of 10e1 requires the conclusion of stage three of the Cosmological Argument, i ...

ARGUMENTS FOR MONOTHEISM 205 4 If artifacts are operationally functional things, natural objects are operationally functional th ...

206 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS That is, if we take our experience with artifacts as the clue to operational functionali ...

ARGUMENTS FOR MONOTHEISM 207 the inference of a creative Lord which claims to be in agreement with observation is refuted by rea ...

208 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS The argument from design is, in effect, an argument to the best explanation – an argumen ...

ARGUMENTS FOR MONOTHEISM 209 S might do than A, and S’s doing A is right (note that being right does not entail being obligatory ...

210 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS 7 There can be no further explanation of God’s creating the world. But: 8 It is not poss ...

ARGUMENTS FOR MONOTHEISM 211 Annotated reading Burrell, Donald (ed.) (1967) Cosmological Arguments, Garden City, NY: Anchor Book ...

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CHAPTER 11 Monotheism and religious experience Phenomenologically thick experiences Experience as direct evidence A principle of ...

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11 Monotheism and religious experience Phenomenologically thick experiences A phenomenological description of an experience is a ...

216 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS they are that way or not. Using phenomenological descriptions, an atheist and a theist c ...

MONOTHEISM AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE 217 experience is reliable, involves being aware of something or someone that is not depende ...

218 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS experience as potential evidence for claims to the effect that things are as the experie ...

MONOTHEISM AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE 219 not have the proper phenomenological features to be direct evidence for at least seeming ...

220 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS If Mary knows that her experience of at least seeming to see a tiger is counterbalanced, ...

MONOTHEISM AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE 221 (P4) If a person S has an experience E which, if reliable, is a matter of being aware of ...