Petitionary prayer : a philosophical investigation / Scott A. Davison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davison, Scott A. (Scott Alan), 1965- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prayer--Philosophy.

Prayer.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

vi, 189 pages : illustration ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"This volume explores the philosophical issues involved in the idea of petitionary prayer, where this is conceived as an activity designed to influence the action of the all-knowing, all-powerful, perfectly good God of traditional theism. Theists have always recognized various logical and moral limits to divine action in the world, but do these limits leave any space among God's reasons for petitionary prayer to make a difference? Petitionary Prayer: A Philosophical Investigation develops a new account of the conditions required for a petitionary prayer to be answered by employing the notion of contrastive explanation. With careful attention to recent developments in metaphysics, epistemology, and value theory, Scott A. Davison surveys the contemporary literature on this question." Dust jacket.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-184) and index.

ISBN:

9780198757740

0198757743

OCLC:

957546028

Publisher Number:

99971772929