Scientific Theism
Author : Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,64 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Theism
ISBN :
Author : Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,64 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Theism
ISBN :
Author : Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 23,11 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Philosophy
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Author : Alvin Plantinga
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 14,86 MB
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199812101
In this long-awaited book, pre-eminent analytical philosopher Alvin Plantinga argues that the conflict between science and theistic religion is actually superficial, and that at a deeper level they are in concord.
Author : Ian J. Thompson
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 24,76 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780984822805
In this well-argued book, physicist Thompson makes a case for a Oscientific theism.O He shows how a following of core postulates of theism leads to novel and useful predictions about the psychology of minds and the physics of materials which should appear in the universe.
Author : Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 18,68 MB
Release : 1885
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,42 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Religion and science
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Author : Arvid Reuterdahl
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 23,55 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Minnesota
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Author : Peter Forrest
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Religion and science
ISBN : 9780801432552
Peter Forrest expounds a program of best-explanation apologetics. He contends that since the existence of God would provide the best possible explanation of various facts, those facts support theism. Among the facts cited are the suitability of the universe for life, the regularity of the universe, the human capacity for intellectual progress, the experience of a moral order, and various forms of beauty. The beauty that interests Forrest as evidence for the existence of God includes sensuous beauty; the beauty of the natural order, as revealed by the sciences; and the beauty of necessity discovered by mathematicians. In addressing the need for an adequate motive for creation, Forrest conjectures that God created the universe for embodied persons not for their life on earth alone but also for an afterlife. Forrest acknowledges the speculative nature of such an account. He suggests that philosophical speculation is also required to defend theism against the charge that it is too extravagant a hypothesis to be warranted. Providing a speculative defense against the argument from evil, he explains how such speculations can be used to support best-explanation arguments without the conclusions themselves being rendered purely speculative.
Author : Stephen T. Asma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 34,91 MB
Release : 2018-05-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0190469692
How we feel is as vital to our survival as how we think. This claim, based on the premise that emotions are largely adaptive, serves as the organizing theme of Why We Need Religion. This book is a novel pathway in a well-trodden field of religious studies and philosophy of religion. Stephen Asma argues that, like art, religion has direct access to our emotional lives in ways that science does not. Yes, science can give us emotional feelings of wonder and the sublime--we can feel the sacred depths of nature--but there are many forms of human suffering and vulnerability that are beyond the reach of help from science. Different emotional stresses require different kinds of rescue. Unlike secular authors who praise religion's ethical and civilizing function, Asma argues that its core value lies in its emotionally therapeutic power. No theorist of religion has failed to notice the importance of emotions in spiritual and ritual life, but truly systematic research has only recently delivered concrete data on the neurology, psychology, and anthropology of the emotional systems. This very recent "affective turn" has begun to map out a powerful territory of embodied cognition. Why We Need Religion incorporates new data from these affective sciences into the philosophy of religion. It goes on to describe the way in which religion manages those systems--rage, play, lust, care, grief, and so on. Finally, it argues that religion is still the best cultural apparatus for doing this adaptive work. In short, the book is a Darwinian defense of religious emotions and the cultural systems that manage them.
Author : Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 38,27 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Theism
ISBN :