An Introduction to the Philosophy of ReligionAn Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion is the standard account of the subject for students, philosophers, and general readers. This new, completely revised and updated edition places particular emphasis on matters which have recently become philosophically controversial. Brian Davies also provides a critical examination of the fundamental questions of religion and the ways in which these questions have been treated by such thinkers as Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes, Leibnitz, Hume, Kant, Karl Barth, and Wittgenstein. Must a belief in God be based on argument or evidence in order to be a rational belief? Can one invoke the Free-Will Defence if one believes in God as maker and sustainer of the universe? Is it correct to think of God as a moral agent subject to duties and obligations? What is the significance of Darwin for the Argument from Design? How can one recognize God as an object of one's experience? The author debates all these problems and more, sometimes proposing provocative answers of his own, more often leaving readers to decide for themselves. |
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... occurred must always be held to outweigh any claim to the effect that they have occurred , Hume makes four points designed , as he puts it , to show that ' there never was a miraculous event established'.31 The first is that no reported ...
... occurred . But past events sometimes leave physical traces which survive into the present.39 It may thus be urged against Hume that it is conceivable that some reported ' miraculous ' events can be reasonably believed to have occurred ...
... occur and are monitored by strict scientific methods . If we now say that they can be explained in terms of some law of ... occurred . Let us suppose that we can be sure that some past events are reasonably and properly taken to be ...