Virtue of Faith and Other Essays in Philosophical Theology

Name: Virtue of Faith and Other Essays in Philosophical Theology
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ISBN: 9780195041453

ISBN-10: 0195041453

ISBN-13: 9780195041453

Edition: 1987

Authors: Robert M. Adams

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Robert Merrihew Adams has been a leader in renewing philosophical respect for the idea that moral obligation may be founded on the commands of God. This collection of Adams's essays, two of which are previously unpublished, draws from his extensive writings on philosophical theology that discuss metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical issues surrounding the concept of God--whether or not God exists, what God is or would be like, and how we ought to relate ourselves to such a being. Adams studies the relation between religion and ethics, presenting a study of moral arguments for theistic belief. In several essays, contemporary studies in the metaphysics of individuality, possibility and…

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List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/30/1987
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.56" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Introduction	p. 3
Faith
The Virtue of Faith	p. 9
Kierkegaard's Arguments Against Objective Reasoning in Religion	p. 25
The Leap of Faith	p. 42
The Problem of Evil
Must God Create the Best?	p. 51
Existence, Self-interest, and the Problem of Evil	p. 65
Middle Knowledge and the Problem of Evil	p. 77
God and Ethics
A Modified Divine Command Theory of Ethical Wrongness	p. 97
Autonomy and Theological Ethics	p. 123
Divine Command Metaethics Modified Again	p. 128
Moral Arguments for Theistic Belief	p. 144
Saints	p. 164
Pure Love	p. 174
The Metaphysics of Theism
Has It Been Proved That All Real Existence Is Contingent?	p. 195
Divine Necessity	p. 209
The Logical Structure of Anselm's Arguments	p. 221
Flavors, Colors, and God	p. 243
Index	p. 263
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