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Book SynopsisIn this book, an international team of scholars from leading American, British and Continental European universities, led by Richard Swinburne, Eleonore Stump, William Wainwright and Linda Zagzebski, presents original ideas about three currently discussed topics in the philosophy of religion: religious epistemology, the philosophy of God’s action in the world, including the problem of evil and Divine Providence, and the philosophical challenge of religious diversity. The book contains echoes of all four main strands of the late 20th century philosophy of religion: Richard Swinburne’s philosophical theology, Alvin Plantinga’s reformed epistemology, John Hick’s theory of religious pluralism, and the philosophy of religion inspired by the work of the later Wittgenstein. One of the distinguishing features of this volume is that it mirrors a new trend towards philosophical cooperation across the so-called continental/analytic divide.
Table of ContentsContents: Richard Swinburne: Why Hume and Kant Were Mistaken in Rejecting Natural Theology – Linda Zagzebski: First Person and Third Person Epistemic Reasons. Navigating the Problems of Religious Epistemology – William J. Wainwright: The Spiritual Senses in Western Spirituality and the Analytic Philosophy of Religion – Roger Pouivet: Theological Fictionalism. A Postmodern Heresy – Sebastian T. Kołodziejczyk: From Thinking about God to Experiencing the World. The Theory of Transcendentals and Its Relevance to the Debate about the Nature of Experience – Marco Damonte: Towards a New Natural Theology: Between Reformed Epistemology and Wittgensteinian Thomism – Louis Caruana: Science, Religion and Common Sense – Daniel von Wachter: Do the Results of Divine Actions Have Preceding Causes? – Eleonore Stump: Atonement and the Cry of Dereliction from the Cross – Denis Moreau: Salvation as Divine Action. A Philosophical Approach to the Power of Faith in Christ’s Resurrection – Paul Clavier: Creation as a Metaphysical Concept – Nehama Verbin: Providence Interiorized. Maimonides, Kierkegaard and Weil on Divine Providence – Janusz Salamon: Theodicy of Justice as Fairness and Sceptical Pluralism. A View from Behind the Veil of Ignorance – Bernd Irlenborn: Religious Inclusivism. A Philosophical Defense – Anita Renusch: Exclusive Inclusivism – Vladimir Shokhin: Methodological Pluralism and the Subject Matter of the Philosophy of Religion.
