03706nam a2200421 i 4500 ebr10757544 CaPaEBR m o d cr cn||||||||| 090629t20092009ilu ob 001 0 eng|d 9780830838769 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780830879335 (e-book) CaPaEBR eng rda pn CaPaEBR (OCoLC)861529571 BL51 .E86 2009eb 210 22 Evans, C. Stephen. Philosophy of religion : thinking about faith / C. Stephen Evans & R. Zachary Manis. Second edition. Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, [2009] �2009 1 online resource (233 pages). text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Contours of Christian philosophy Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-229) and index. General preface -- Preface to the second edition -- What is philosophy of religion? Philosophy of religion and other disciplines ; Philosophy of religion and philosophy ; Can thinking about religion be neutral? ; Fideism ; Neutralism ; Critical dialogue -- The theistic God : the project of natural theology. Concepts of God ; The theistic concept of God ; A case study : divine foreknowledge and human freedom ; The problem of religious language ; Natural theology ; Proofs of God's existence -- Classical arguments for God's existence. Ontological arguments ; Cosmological arguments ; Teleological arguments ; Moral arguments ; Conclusions: the value of theistic argument -- Religious experience. Types of religious experience ; Two models for understanding experience ; Experience of God as direct and mediated ; Are religious experiences veridical? ; Checking experiential claims -- Special acts of God : revelation and miracles. Special acts ; Theories of revelation ; Is the traditional view defensible? ; What is a miracle? ; Is it reasonable to believe in miracles? ; Can a revelation have special authority? -- Religion, modernity, and science. Modernity and religious belief ; Naturalism ; Do the natural sciences undermine religious belief? ; Objections from the social sciences ; Religious uses of modern atheism? -- The problem of evil. Types of evil, versions of the problem and types of responses ; The logical form of the problem ; The evidential form of the problem ; Horrendous evils and the problem of hell ; Divine hiddenness -- Faith(s) and reason. Faith : subjectivity in religious arguments ; The evidentialist challenge to religious belief ; Reformed epistemology ; The place of subjectivity in forming beliefs ; Interpretive judgments and the nature of a "cumulative case" ; Can faith be certain? ; Faith and doubt : can religious faith be tested? ; What is faith? ; Could one religion be true? Description based on print version record. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Religion Philosophy. Philosophical theology. Electronic books. Manis, R. Zachary. Print version: Evans, C. Stephen. Philosophy of religion : thinking about faith. Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, [2009] 234 pages ; 21 cm. Contours of Christian philosophy 9780830838769 (OCoLC)ocn421949557 (DLC) 2009026591 ebrary. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10757544 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 118974 118974