Philosophy of Religion

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Gäb

doi:10.5771/9783748918783

Summary

What is religion? Is it sensible to live according to a certain faith? Do science and religion contradict each other? Is there a god? Are we immortal? Questions like these are part of the philosophy of religion, to whose main problems and theories this book provides a comprehensive introduction. It introduces core issues of contemporary philosophy of religion in 14 didactically edited chapters, and describes and discusses classical and modern approaches. The book is intended for students of philosophy, theology and religious studies, but will also appeal to other readers interested in philosophy and religion. It can also be used as a textbook in an introductory course on the philosophy of religion.

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Copyright year: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-3-7560-1349-4
ISBN-Online: 978-3-7489-1878-3
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: NomosTextbook
Language: English
Pages: 238
Product type: Educational Book

1. Introduction No access
1. 1.1 Different Concepts of Religion No access
2. 1. (a) Essentialist theories No access
  2. (b) Functionalism No access
  3. (c) Religion without Definition No access
3. 1.3 Philosophy of Religion No access
1. 1. (a) Marx No access
  2. (b) Freud No access
  3. (c) Evolutionary Explanations No access
2. 2.2 Religion is Irrational No access
3. 1. (a) Verification No access
  2. (b) Falsification No access
4. 2.4 Religion is Harmful No access
1. 3.1 Rationalism No access
2. 3.2 Reformed Epistemology No access
3. 1. (a) Pascal’s wager No access
  2. (b) William James and the Will to Believe No access
4. 3.4 Fideism No access
1. 4.1 What is Religious Experience? No access
2. 4.2 The Principle of Credulity No access
3. 1. (a) Verification and the Problem of Reliability No access
  2. (b) Is there a Natural Explanation? No access
  3. (c) Contradiction, Contingency and the Common Core No access
1. 5.1 Is there Really a Problem? Relativism No access
2. 1. (a) Exclusivism No access
  2. (b) Inclusivism No access
  3. (c) Pluralism No access
3. 1. (a) Am I Wrong? No access
  2. (b) What Follows from Disagreements? No access
4. 5.4 Tolerance and Freedom: The Ethical Problem No access
1. 1. (a) It Means what it Means: Realism No access
  2. (b) Noncognitivism and Expressivism No access
  3. (c) Playing Games: Wittgenstein and Wittgensteinianism No access
  4. (d) Telling Stories: Fictionalism No access
2. 1. (a) Analogy No access
  2. (b) Metaphor No access
  3. (c) Apophaticism No access
3. 6.3 Reference No access
1. 7.1 Divine Command Ethics and the Euthyphro Dilemma No access
2. 7.2 Religious Beliefs as Motives No access
3. 7.3 Newman: The Voice of Conscience No access
4. 7.4 Kant’s Moral Argument No access
1. 1. (a) Conflict No access
  2. (b) Independence No access
  3. (c) Dialogue No access
2. 1. (a) What is a Miracle? No access
  2. (b) Are there Miracles? No access
  3. (c) What Follows from Miracles? No access
1. 1. (a) The Perfect Being No access
  2. (b) Eternity No access
  3. (c) Omnipotence No access
  4. (d) Omniscience No access
  5. (e) Person No access
2. 1. (a) Process Theology and Open Theism No access
  2. (b) Deism No access
  3. (c) Pantheism No access
1. 10.1 The Second Way: Thomas Aquinas No access
2. 10.2 Explaining the World: Leibniz No access
3. 10.3 Back to the Start: Kalam Arguments No access
1. 11.1 Cleanthes: The Well-Designed Universe No access
2. 11.2 The Fine Tuning of the Universe No access
1. 12.1 Anselm’s Ontological Argument No access
2. 1. (a) Two Weak Objections No access
  2. (b) Gaunilo’s Perfect Island No access
  3. (c) Kant: Existence is not a Real Predicate No access
  4. (d) What are Existential Statements About? No access
1. 13.1 Manichaeism: It wasn’t God No access
2. 13.2 Augustine: There are no Evils No access
3. 13.3 The Book of Job: God’s Ways are Inscrutable No access
4. 1. (a) Freedom of Will No access
  2. (b) The Value of Suffering No access
5. 13.5 The Evil of Theodicy No access
1. 14.1 Death and Immortality: Conceptual Clarifications No access
2. 1. (a) The Immortal Soul No access
  2. (b) Reincarnation No access
3. 14.3 Monist Models: Resurrection of the Dead No access
4. 14.4 Who Wants to Live Forever? No access
1. Introductions No access
2. Handbooks and Companions No access
3. References No access
Index of Subjects No access Pages 237 - 237
Index of Names No access Pages 238 - 238