The virtue of faith and other essays in philosophical theology / Robert Merrihew Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, Robert Merrihew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The author has been a leader in renewing philosophical respect for the idea that moral obligation may be founded on the command of God. This is a collection of his essays, two of them previously unpublished.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1 The Virtue of Faith; 2 Kierkegaard's Arguments Against Objective Reasoning in Religion; 3 The Leap of Faith; 4 Must God Create the Best?; 5 Existence, Self-interest, and the Problem of Evil; 6 Middle Knowledge and the Problem of Evil; 7 A Modified Divine Command Theory of Ethical Wrongness; 8 Autonomy and Theological Ethics; 9 Divine Command Metaethics Modified Again; 10 Moral Arguments for Theistic Belief; 11 Saints; 12 Pure Love; 13 Has It Been Proved That All Real Existence Is Contingent?; 14 Divine Necessity; 15 The Logical Structure of Anselm's Arguments; 16 Flavors, Colors, and God; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-43956-4

0-19-536478-3

1-4237-5842-0

OCLC:

476015450