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082	0	4	_a210 _222
100	1		_aEvans, C. Stephen.
245	1	0	_aPhilosophy of religion : _bthinking about faith / _cC. Stephen Evans & R. Zachary Manis.
250			_aSecond edition.
264		1	_aDowners Grove, Illinois : _bIVP Academic, _c[2009]
264		4	_c©2009
300			_a1 online resource (233 pages).
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
440		0	_aContours of Christian philosophy
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [217]-229) and index.
505	0		_aGeneral preface -- Preface to the second edition -- What is philosophy of religion? Philosophy of religion and other disciplines ; Philosophy of religion and philosophy ; Can thinking about religion be neutral? ; Fideism ; Neutralism ; Critical dialogue -- The theistic God : the project of natural theology. Concepts of God ; The theistic concept of God ; A case study : divine foreknowledge and human freedom ; The problem of religious language ; Natural theology ; Proofs of God's existence -- Classical arguments for God's existence. Ontological arguments ; Cosmological arguments ; Teleological arguments ; Moral arguments ; Conclusions: the value of theistic argument -- Religious experience. Types of religious experience ; Two models for understanding experience ; Experience of God as direct and mediated ; Are religious experiences veridical? ; Checking experiential claims -- Special acts of God : revelation and miracles. Special acts ; Theories of revelation ; Is the traditional view defensible? ; What is a miracle? ; Is it reasonable to believe in miracles? ; Can a revelation have special authority? -- Religion, modernity, and science. Modernity and religious belief ; Naturalism ; Do the natural sciences undermine religious belief? ; Objections from the social sciences ; Religious uses of modern atheism? -- The problem of evil. Types of evil, versions of the problem and types of responses ; The logical form of the problem ; The evidential form of the problem ; Horrendous evils and the problem of hell ; Divine hiddenness -- Faith(s) and reason. Faith : subjectivity in religious arguments ; The evidentialist challenge to religious belief ; Reformed epistemology ; The place of subjectivity in forming beliefs ; Interpretive judgments and the nature of a "cumulative case" ; Can faith be certain? ; Faith and doubt : can religious faith be tested? ; What is faith? ; Could one religion be true?
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aReligion _xPhilosophy.
650		0	_aPhilosophical theology.
655		0	_aElectronic books.
700	1		_aManis, R. Zachary.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aEvans, C. Stephen. _tPhilosophy of religion : thinking about faith. _dDowners Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, [2009] _h234 pages ; 21 cm. _kContours of Christian philosophy _z9780830838769 _w(OCoLC)ocn421949557 _w(DLC) 2009026591
797	2		_aebrary.
856	4	0	_uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10757544 _zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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