Philosophy : Religious

Uncovering the historical roots of naturalistic, secular contemporary ethics, Gill shows how the British moralists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries completed a Copernican revolution in moral philosophy, effecting a shift from thinking of morality as independent of human nature to thinking of it as part of human nature itself. more...

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Bestselling author and renowned Zen teacher Steve Hagen returns with a practical, engaging guide to the most essential elements of spiritual inquiry: attention, intention, honesty with oneself, compassion, and the desire to awaken in every aspect of daily living. "If it's Truth we're after, we'll find that we cannot start with any assumptions or concepts whatsoever. more...

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Karl Rahner (1904 1984) was one of the most significant theological voices of the twentieth century. This Cambridge Companion provides an accessible introduction to the main themes of Rahner's work and will be of interest to both students and scholars alike. more...

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Can God Be Free? is a penetrating study of a central problem in philosophy of religion: can it be right to regard God as free, and as praiseworthy for being perfectly good? Allowing that he has perfect knowledge and perfect goodness, if there is a best world for God to create he would have no choice other than to create it. But if God could not do otherwise than create the best world, he created the world of necessity, not freely, and we have no reason to be thankful to God. for creating us, since he couldn't do otherwise. William Rowe proposes the need for some substantial revision in contemporary thinking about the nature of God. - ;In the three major religions of the West, God is understood to be a being whose goodness, knowledge, and power is such that it is impossible for any being, including God himself, to have a greater degree of goodness, knowledge, and power. This book focuses on God's freedom and praiseworthiness in relation to his perfect goodness. Given his necessary perfections, if there is a best world for God to create he would have no choice other than to create it. For, as Leibniz tells us, 'to. do less good than one could is to be lacking in wisdom or in goodness.' But if God could not do otherwise than create the best world, he created the world of necessity, not freely. And, if that is so, it may be argued that we have no reason to be thankful to God for creating us, since, as parts of. the best possible world, God was simply unable to do anything other than create us - he created us of necessity, not freely. Moreover, we are confronted with the difficulty of having to believe that this world, with its Holocaust, and innumerable other evils, is the best that an infinitely powerful, infinitely good being could do in creating a world. Neither of these conclusions, taken by itself, seems at all plausible. Yet each conclusion appears to follow from the conception of God now. dominant in the great religions of the West. William Rowe p more...

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Acting as an introduction to medical ethics, this is an exploration of the problem posed by pain in the field of medicine and religion. The author, Margaret Spufford, suffers from an incurable disease, but in spite of this, as a devout Christian she can write objectively of the problem of pain. more...

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