000709101 000__ 03594cam\a2200421\i\4500 000709101 001__ 709101 000709101 005__ 20210515100428.0 000709101 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000709101 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000709101 008__ 090629t20092009ilu\\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000709101 020__ $$z9780830838769$$qpaperback 000709101 020__ $$a9780830879335$$qelectronic book 000709101 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10757544 000709101 035__ $$a(OCoLC)861529571 000709101 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$beng$$erda$$epn$$cCaPaEBR 000709101 05014 $$aBL51$$b.E86 2009eb 000709101 08204 $$a210$$222 000709101 1001_ $$aEvans, C. Stephen. 000709101 24510 $$aPhilosophy of religion$$h[electronic resource] :$$bthinking about faith /$$cC. Stephen Evans & R. Zachary Manis. 000709101 250__ $$aSecond edition. 000709101 264_1 $$aDowners Grove, Illinois :$$bIVP Academic,$$c[2009] 000709101 264_4 $$c©2009 000709101 300__ $$a1 online resource (233 pages). 000709101 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000709101 337__ $$acomputer$$2rdamedia 000709101 338__ $$aonline resource$$2rdacarrier 000709101 440_0 $$aContours of Christian philosophy 000709101 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [217]-229) and index. 000709101 5050_ $$aGeneral preface -- Preface to the second edition -- What is philosophy of religion? Philosophy of religion and other disciplines ; Philosophy of religion and philosophy ; Can thinking about religion be neutral? ; Fideism ; Neutralism ; Critical dialogue -- The theistic God : the project of natural theology. Concepts of God ; The theistic concept of God ; A case study : divine foreknowledge and human freedom ; The problem of religious language ; Natural theology ; Proofs of God's existence -- Classical arguments for God's existence. Ontological arguments ; Cosmological arguments ; Teleological arguments ; Moral arguments ; Conclusions: the value of theistic argument -- Religious experience. Types of religious experience ; Two models for understanding experience ; Experience of God as direct and mediated ; Are religious experiences veridical? ; Checking experiential claims -- Special acts of God : revelation and miracles. Special acts ; Theories of revelation ; Is the traditional view defensible? ; What is a miracle? ; Is it reasonable to believe in miracles? ; Can a revelation have special authority? -- Religion, modernity, and science. Modernity and religious belief ; Naturalism ; Do the natural sciences undermine religious belief? ; Objections from the social sciences ; Religious uses of modern atheism? -- The problem of evil. Types of evil, versions of the problem and types of responses ; The logical form of the problem ; The evidential form of the problem ; Horrendous evils and the problem of hell ; Divine hiddenness -- Faith(s) and reason. Faith : subjectivity in religious arguments ; The evidentialist challenge to religious belief ; Reformed epistemology ; The place of subjectivity in forming beliefs ; Interpretive judgments and the nature of a "cumulative case" ; Can faith be certain? ; Faith and doubt : can religious faith be tested? ; What is faith? ; Could one religion be true? 000709101 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000709101 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000709101 650_0 $$aReligion$$xPhilosophy. 000709101 650_0 $$aPhilosophical theology. 000709101 7001_ $$aManis, R. Zachary. 000709101 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aEvans, C. Stephen.$$tPhilosophy of religion : thinking about faith.$$dDowners Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, [2009]$$z9780830838769$$w(OCoLC)ocn421949557$$w(DLC) 2009026591 000709101 852__ $$bebk 000709101 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/usiricelib/Doc?id=10757544$$zOnline Access 000709101 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:709101$$pGLOBAL_SET 000709101 980__ $$aEBOOK 000709101 980__ $$aBIB 000709101 982__ $$aEbook 000709101 983__ $$aOnline