Philosophy of Religion: A Guide to the Subject (Not In A Series)

the Phrase 'philosophy Of Religion' Is A Relatively Recent One. The Process It Describes Goes Back Thousands Of Years, To When The Greek Philosophers Used The Tools Of Philosophy To Examine The Validity Of Religious Ideas And Values. Since Then, In Each Age, Philosophers Have Sought To Apply The Principles Of Their Trade To The Key Concepts Of Religious Faith. Does God Exist? Can God's Existence Be Proved? If So, What Might God Be Like? Is There Life After Death? Is Faith In An Unseen God Rationally Tenable At All, In A Post-enlightenment, Postmodern, Scientific Age When, In Most Societies, Different Faith Traditions Co-exist And Make Claims To The Ownership Of Eternal Truths? This Authoritative And Accessible Book Is An Up-to-date, Concise And Comprehensive Single-volume Introduction To The Philosophy Of Religion. It Explains How Philosophers Of The Past Have Thought About These Basic Questions, And It Suggests How We Might Think About Them Today. booknews introduces The Discipline By Exploring How Western Philosophers From Ancient Greece To The Present Have Applied The Tools Of Their Trade To Religious Questions Such As The Existence And Nature Of God And Life After Death. Rather Than Chronological Treatments, The Contributors, From Britain, The Us, And Australia, Each Take A Topic Such As Language, Faith And Revelation, Evil, And Morality. Annotation C. Book News, Inc., Portland, Or (booknew.com) Br> Philosophy of Religion : A Guide to the Subject by Davies, Brian (Editor) Terms of use This concise, introduction asks the fundamental questions about life from a variety of religious viewpoints: Does God exist? Is there life after death? Can philosophy shed light on the diversity of religious beliefs? What does science tell us about religious matters? The authors then suggest how we can think about these issues today. Descriptive content provided by Syndetics"! a Bowker service