Taking Religious Claims Seriously: A Philosophy of ReligionRodopi, 1998 - 259 من الصفحات Taking Religious Claims Seriously is a systematic, critical, and comprehensive study of the fundamental questions of the philosophy of religion: religious experience, the existence and nature of God, religious knowledge and truth, good and evil, immortality of the soul, religious diversity, religious claims about the person, faith, and the religious way of life. In this study the author seeks to capture the reality and meaning of the religious as such: What is the foundation of religion? Under what conditions is an authentic religious way of life possible? His method of inquiry is phenomenological. The author begins his discussion with a general characterization of the basic features of all the literate and illiterate religions of the world. He then identifies the ideas, beliefs, and concerns which are common to these religions: What are the central claims of these religions? How did the various religions understand these claims? The author makes a serious attempt to clarify these claims and explore the possibility for a reconcilation between them. For him, the foundation of religion is the religious experience, and the essence of this experience consists in a serious, cognitive, and meaningful encounter with the Ultimate Being. This being is the ground of the world and human life. This book is a comparative, pluralistic study of the philosophy of religion. |
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God and Arguments | 77 |
The Argument from Beauty and Design in | 83 |
The Argument from the Knowability of the World of Nature | 97 |
Abstract Arguments | 101 |
Grounds for Denying the Existence of God | 102 |
Opponents of Theism from Within Religion | 108 |
SIX Value Evil and Suffering | 111 |
Empirical Findings | 112 |
Further Observations on Prayer | 149 |
More Problems Regarding Prayer | 151 |
Objections to Prayer | 153 |
EIGHT Claims about How a Person Should Live | 155 |
Ethical Demands | 162 |
NINE Religious Claims about the Person | 171 |
The Ontological Status of the Individual | 173 |
Does the Individual Have a Free Will? | 179 |
A Critical Look at the Empirical Findings | 115 |
Attempts at Solutions | 119 |
Answers That Explain Evil as Essentially Unreal | 125 |
Answers That Reinterpret Evil as Disguised or Unknown Good | 127 |
Pragmatic or Poetic Solutions | 130 |
The Solution That Concludes No God Exists at All | 131 |
Reconsidering the Nature and Idea of God | 132 |
Concluding Comments | 135 |
SEVEN The Religious Experience of Worship and Prayer | 137 |
Varieties of Religious Experience | 138 |
Worship | 139 |
Positive and Negative Results of Worship | 144 |
Prayer | 147 |
The Axiological Nature of the Finite Individual | 182 |
Immortality | 185 |
Grounds for Denying the Existence of Survival in Any Form | 188 |
Grounds for Supporting Some View of Immortality | 190 |
Impersonal or Objective Immortality | 194 |
ELEVEN The Cognitive Question | 201 |
TWELVE Further Problems | 221 |
Notes | 231 |
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About the Editor | 245 |
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