Alternative concepts of God : essays on the metaphysics of the divine / edited by Andrei A. Buckareff and Yujin Nagasawa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buckareff, Andrei A., 1971- editor.

Nagasawa, Yujin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

God.

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 299 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Essays on the metaphysics of the divine

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

According to traditional Judeo-Christian-Islamic theism, God is an omniscient, omnipotent, and morally perfect agent. This volume shows that philosophy of religion needs to take seriously alternative concepts of the divine, and demonstrates the considerable philosophical interest that they hold.

Contents:

Cover; Alternative Conceptsof God: Essays on the Metaphysics of the Divine; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Alternative Conceptions of Divinity and Contemporary Analytic Philosophy of Religion; 1. Extending the Conversation in Philosophy of Religion Beyond Classical Theism; 2. Alternative Conceptions of Divinity and Global Philosophy of Religion; 3. Why Have Alternatives to Traditional Theism Been Marginalized?; 4. The Essays; References; PART I: Pantheism; Chapter 1: The Personal Pantheist Conception of God; 1. Personal Pantheism

2. Properly Anthropocentric Metaphysics3. The Argument in Outline; 4. Awareness; 5. A Misleading Precedent: The Qualia; 6. Divine Proprioception; 7. Does the Unity of Consciousness Imply a Spiritual Self?; 8. Self as Agent?; 9. Speculation about Consciousness and Agency; 9.1 Awareness; 9.2 Agency; 10. The Case for the Personal Pantheistic Conception; 10.1 The Objection from Synchronic Disunity; 10.2 The Threat of Diachronic Disunity; 10.3 The Threat of Many Universes Polytheism; 10.4 The Advantage of Nature Worship; 11. Pantheism or Panentheism?

12. The Case against Bayes-Proof Atheism and Agnosticism12.1 HADD; 12.2 The Problem of Divine Imagination; 13. Final Methodological Reflection; References; Chapter 2: Pantheism as Panpsychism; 1. Messy Stuff; 2. Massy Stuff; 3. Brainy Stuff; Chapter 3: A Way of Picturing God; 1. The Mystery of Existence; 2. "Mustn't all truthmakers be existing things?"; 3. "Yet what could create a thing, without itself being one?"; 4. "But don't evils show that Plato is wrong?"; 5. A Pantheism of Infinitely Many Infinite Minds; 6. Where Would God Fit into All This?; Further Reading

Chapter 4: Naturalistic Pantheism1. Pantheism; 2. The Pantheist Identity; 3. The God-Role; 4. The Religious Element; 5. Pantheist Replies; 6. Worshiping the Universe?; 7. Pantheist-Friendly Worship?; 8. Denying the Worship Requirement; 9. Religious Attitudes without Worship; PART II:Panentheism; Chapter 5: Modal Panentheism; 1. Introduction; 2. The Anselmian Definition of God; 3. Great-Making Properties; 4. Modal Panentheism and Problems in the Philosophy of Religion; 5. The Problem of Evil for Modal Panentheism; 6. Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: Concepts of God and Problems of Evil

1. The Argument from Evil as Directed against the Existence of a Personal OmniGodA 'Logical' Argument from Evil, Normatively Relativized to Relationship Ethics; Motivating this Argument's Key Normative Judgement; 2. The Existential Problem of Evil, Salvation, and 'the God-Role'; 3. Varying Conceptions of God, Varying Problems of Evil; Separating Creator from Saviour?; Naturalism about the Divine; Rejecting the Personhood of the Divine; Pantheist Conceptions as Falling Short of Theism; Pantheist Problems of Evil; Johnston's Theology of 'Outpouring' Being

4. A 'Euteleological' Conception of Divinity

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

0-19-178909-7

0-19-103362-6

OCLC:

945740151