ALTERNATIVE CONCEPTIONS OF GOD C

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-872225-0
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 631 g

The concept of God according to traditional Judeo-Christian-Islamic theism minimally includes the following theses: (i) There is one God; (ii) God is an omniscient, omnipotent, and morally perfect agent; (iii) God is the creator ex nihilo of the universe and the sustainer of all that exists; and (iv) God is an immaterial substance that is ontologically distinct from the universe. Proponents of alternative concepts of God, such as pantheism, panentheism, religious anti-realism, developmental theism, and religious naturalism, exclude at least one of these claims. A number of prominent philosophers and scientists have expressed sympathy with alternative concepts of the divine. However, voices raised in defense of these concepts tend not to be taken seriously in contemporary analytic philosophy of religion. This volume aims to shed light on alternative concepts of God and to thoroughly consider their merits and demerits. The contributors are leading analytic philosophers of religion, including critics of these views as well as sympathizers. This is the first contemporary edited collection featuring the work of analytic philosophers of religion covering such a wide range of alternative concepts of God.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buckareff, Nagasawa

Buckareff, Andrei

Nagasawa, Yujin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Theologie, Doktrine
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Natur und Existenz Gottes
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: Alternative Conceptions of Divinity and Contemporary Analytic Philosophy of Religion

- Part I: Pantheism

- 1: Peter Forrest: The Personal Pantheist Conception of God

- 2: Karl Pfeifer: Pantheism as Panpsychism

- 3: John Leslie: A Way of Picturing God

- 4: Brian Leftow: Naturalistic Pantheism

- Part II: Panentheism

- 5: Yujin Nagasawa: Modal Panentheism

- 6: John Bishop and Ken Perszyk: Concepts of God and Problems of Evil

- 7: Marilyn McCord Adams: Horrors: To What End?

- Part III: Further Alternatives

- 8: Charles Taliaferro: Taking the Mind of God Seriously: Why and How to Become a Theistic Idealist

- 9: J. L. Schellenberg: God for All Time: From Theism to Ultimism

- 10: Robin Le Poidevin: Playing the God Game: the Perils of Religious Fictionalism

- Part IV: Causal vs. Non-Causal Accounts

- 11: Willem B. Drees: The Divine as Ground of Existence and of Transcendental Values: An Exploration

- 12: Andrei A. Buckareff: Theological Realism, Divine Action, and Divine Location

- 13: Hugh J. McCann: Free Will and the Mythology of Causation

- Part V: Naturalism and Alternative Concepts

- 14: Emily Thomas: Samuel Alexander's Spacetime God: A Naturalist Rival to Current Emergentist Theologies

- 15: Eric Steinhart: On Religious Naturalism

Über Autor(innen)

Andrei A. Buckareff is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Cognitive Science Program at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. His research focuses on metaphysical and epistemological issues in philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion. His work has been published in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, Philosophia, Philosophical Studies, Religious Studies, Theoria, and elsewhere.

Yujin Nagasawa is Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of God and Phenomenal Consciousness and The Existence of God. He has published numerous articles in such journals as Mind, the Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese, the American Philosophical Quarterly, Religious Studies and Faith and Philosophy. He won the Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize in 2007, the Templeton Award for Theological Promise in 2008, and the Excellence in Philosophy of Religion Prize in 2011.