1st Edition

God, Freedom and Immortality

By Jonathan Harrison Copyright 1999
    758 Pages
    by Routledge

    758 Pages
    by Routledge

    Published in 1999, this text offers a comprehensive treatment of the Philosophy of Religion. Its overall conclusions are that, though there is no reason to suppose there is a God, doing something that is not quite believing in god, who, as some mystics think - neither exists nor does not exist, may be valuable for some people.

    Part 1: Preliminary Epistemological Questions  1. Meaning and the Word ‘God’  2. The Impossibility of Rational Theology  3. Objections to Empiricism Part 2: Arguments for the Existence of God  4. The Ontological Argument  5. Possible Worlds and the Ontological Argument  6. The Cosmological Argument  7. The Argument of Design  8. God and Mortality: Ethical Arguments for the Existence of God  9. Theology without Propositions  10. Deistic Phenomenalism: A Reductionist Account of the Existence of God  11. Religion without Belief  12. Minor Arguments for the Existence of God  13. The ‘Argument’ from Religious Experience  Part 3: God’s Attributes  14. God’s Omnipotence  15. Trouble with the Trinity  16. God’s Omniscience  17. Providence, Foreknowledge, Will and Fate  18. God’s Eternity  19. God’s Infinity, Simplicity, Unity, Impassibility and Holiness  20. God’s Embodiment  21. The Body of Christ  22. God’s Omnipercipience  23. Survival of Death  24. The Problem of Evil  25. Miracles  26. The Efficacy of Prayer  Part 4: Faith and Morality  27. Belief  28. Faith  29. Unchristian Ethics  30. Conclusion.

    Biography

    Jonathan Harrison