1st Edition

The Lost Sheep in Philosophy of Religion New Perspectives on Disability, Gender, Race, and Animals

Edited By Blake Hereth, Kevin Timpe Copyright 2020
416 Pages
by Routledge

414 Pages
by Routledge

414 Pages
by Routledge

Contemporary research in philosophy of religion is dominated by traditional problems such as the nature of evil, arguments against theism, issues of foreknowledge and freedom, the divine attributes, and religious pluralism. This volume instead focuses on unrepresented and underrepresented issues in the discipline. The essays address how issues like race, sexual orientation, gender identity,... Read more

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Nicholas Wolterstorff



Introduction



Kevin Timpe and Blake Hereth



1. Philosophy of Religion from the Margins: A Theoretical Analysis and Focus Group Study



Helen De Cruz



2. That We May Be Whole: Doing Philosophy of Religion with the Whole Self



Michelle Panchuk



3. Epistemic Injustice and Religious Experience



Kirk Lougheed



4. Smelling God: Olfaction as Religious Experience



Joshua Cockayne



5. ‘Not My People’: Jewish-Christian Ethics and Divine Reversals in Response to Injustice



Joshua Blanchard



6. Eschatology for Creeping Things (and Other Animals)



Dustin Crummett



7. Exploring Theological Zoology: Might Nonhuman Animals be Spiritual (but not Religious)?



Faith Glavey Pawl



8. Animal Gods



Blake Hereth



9. The Resurrection of the Minority Body: Physical Disability in the Life of Heaven



David Efird



10. Disabled Beatitude



Kevin Timpe



11. When Personhood Goes Wrong in Ethics and Philosophical Theology: Disability, Ableism, and (Modern) Personhood



Scott M. Williams



12. Marriage, Reproduction, and the Incarnation: What Could Jesus Do?



Eric T. Yang and Stephen T. Davis



13. A Transfeminist Critique of Mormon Theologies of Gender



Kelli D. Potter



14. Heavenly (Gendered) Bodies? Gender Persistence in the Resurrection and Its Implications



Hilary Yancey



15. Limbo, Hiddenness, and the Beatific Vision (And Procreation, For Some, in the Life to Come)



David Worsley



16. Religious Racial Formation Theory and its Metaphysics: A Research Program in the Philosophy of Religion



Sameer Yadav

Biography

Blake Hereth is a PhD Candidate in philosophy at the University of Washington. Ze has defended animal immortality in Heaven and Philosophy (2018), animal universalism in Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays on Heaven (2017), and afterlife justice for transgender persons in Hinder Them Not: Centering Marginalized Voices in Analytic Theology (forthcoming).



Kevin Timpe holds the William H. Jellema Chair in Christian Philosophy at Calvin College. His books include Disability and Inclusive Communities (2018), the Routledge Companion to Free Will (2017), and Free Will and Theism (2016). In addition to philosophy of religion, Timpe’s scholarly work focuses on philosophy of disability, metaphysics, and virtue ethics.