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Reason in the Service of Faith: Collected Essays of Paul Helm book cover

1st Edition

Reason in the Service of Faith Collected Essays of Paul Helm

By Paul Helm, Oliver Crisp, Daniel Hill Copyright 2023
468 Pages
by Routledge

468 Pages
by Routledge

468 Pages
by Routledge
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Paul Helm is a distinguished philosopher, with particular interests in the philosophy of religion. His work covers some of the most important aspects of the field as it has developed in the last thirty years with particular contributions to metaphysics, religious epistemology, and philosophical theology. In celebration of Helm’s life’s work, Reason in the Service of Faith brings together a... Read more

Preface  

Editor's Introduction 

Part 1. Metaphilosophical Issues 

1. On Pancritical Irrationalism 

2. Understanding Scholarly Presuppositions 

3. The Perfect and the Particular 

4. A Plea for Objectivity 

5. Anthropomorphism Protestant Style: Two Current Approaches 

Part 2. Action, Change and Personal Identity 

6. Pretending and Intending 

7. Pike on Prior on Action 

8. Are 'Cambridge Changes' Non-events? 

9. Detecting Change 

10. A Theory of Disembodied Survival and Re-embodied Existence 

11. Locke's Theory of Personal Identity  Part 3. Epistemology 

12. Revealed Propositions and Timeless Truths 

13. Locke on Faith and Knowledge 

14. Does the Authority of a Tradition Exclude the Possibility of Change? 

15. Two Ideas of Revelation 

16. Speaking and Revealing 

17. The Indispensability of Belief to Religion 

18. Wittgensteinian Religion and 'Reformed' Epistemology 

19. Why was Thomas Reid not a 'Reformed' Epistemologist? 

20. Faith, Evidence and the Scriptures 

Part 4. God 

21. God and Whatever Comes to Pass 

22. Grace and Causation 

23. God and Spacelessness 

24. The Impossibility of Divine Impassibility 

25. Omniscience and Eternity 

26. Divine Timeless Eternity 

27. The Augustinian-Calvinist View 

28. Eternal Creation 

29. The Problem of Dialogue 

30. Divine Causation and Analogy 

Part 5. Creation, Providence and Prayer 

31. Universalism and the Threat of Hell 

32. Asking God 

33. Prayer and Providence 

34. Preserving Perseverance 

35. Providence and Compatibilism 

36. The Plan of God 

37. Starting to Be and Ceasing to Be 

38. Can God Love the World? 

39. All Things Considered: Providence and Divine Purpose 

40. Of God's Eternal Decree 

Bibliography: Publications of Paul Helm 

Index

Biography

Paul Helm is Emeritus Professor of the History and Philosophy of Religion at King’s College, London, UK. He has also taught at Regent College, Vancouver; Highland Theological College, Scotland; and the University of Liverpool, UK.

Oliver D. Crisp is Principal of St Mary’s College and Head of the School of Divinity, University of St Andrews, UK.

Daniel J. Hill is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, UK, and is the Chair of the Tyndale Fellowship’s Study Group in Philosophy of Religion.

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