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Atheism considered : a survey of the rational rejection of religious belief / C.M. Lorkowski.
Van Pelt Library BL2747.3 .L67 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lorkowski, C. M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Atheism.
- Religion--Philosophy.
- Religion.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 291 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction and Overview
- Introduction to the Topic
- Considered Nonbelief
- Synopsis of the Text
- Reading and Utilizing the Text
- References
- 2. Of the Philosophy of Religion and Its Methodology
- Views and Commitments
- Evidence Over Faith
- What Counts as Evidence
- Challenging Questions
- Further Reading
- Reference
- 3. Atheism and Atheists
- Limitations
- Contemporary Trends (Global)
- Contemporary Trends (U.S.)
- An Atheist in Profile
- Oppression and Suppression
- 4. The Burden of Proof
- What Is the Burden of Proof?
- Determining a Burden of Proof
- The Religious Burden
- 5. Theology and Reason
- Natural Versus Revealed Theology
- Applying Reason to Theological Subjects
- Reason as a Generator of Truth
- Common Trends in Natural Theology
- 6. Ontological Arguments
- Three Historical Families of Argument
- Shape of Analysis
- Ontological Arguments in Context
- The Inference to Existence
- Some Ontological Arguments
- Historical Objections to Ontological Arguments
- A New Criticism and a Final Verdict
- 7. Cosmological Arguments
- The Quest for an Ultimate
- Persuasive Cosmological Arguments
- The Revived Kalam Cosmological Argument
- Extrapolating the Results
- 8. Design Arguments
- Order and Purpose
- Local and Global Design
- Orderly Design
- A Finely Tuned Universe?
- 9. Conclusions Regarding Existential Natural Theology
- Where the Arguments Leave Us
- Cosmic Intuitions
- Added Value for the Believer?
- 10. The Concept(s) of God
- Natural Atheology
- An Alien Concept
- An Eternal Puzzle
- A Concept Too Full
- Appendix: A Plethora of Paradoxes (Just the Top Twenty)
- 11. The Problems of Evil
- -Logical, Evidential, and Moral
- The Problem Stated
- The Shape of a Solution
- Some Standard Theodicies
- The Danger of Success
- Escapes and Acceptance
- 12. The Character of Revelation
- The Turn to Revealed Theology
- The Stakes of Revelation
- The Problem of the Many
- The Arbitrariness of Religious Belief
- 13. Challenges to Sacred Texts
- From Particular to General
- The Human Controlling the Divine
- Broken Chains
- A Far Cry from Perfection
- The Big Two
- -Interpretation and Context
- Where Are We Left?
- 14. Challenges to Miracles
- The Naturalistic Alternative
- A Predictable World
- 15. Challenges to Religious Experience
- Experiencing Divinity
- The Fathomably Unfathomable Mind
- The Unassailability of the Non-Empirical
- The Asymmetry of Belief
- 16. Moral Critiques to Religion
- Rejection of Dogma
- The Transcendent Threats to Morality
- The Threat Is Real
- Some Pernicious Contributions
- 17. Personal Survival and the Afterlife
- Types of Survival
- Four Types of Deficient Evidence
- The Unjust Deserts
- Impracticalities
- Conclusion
- 18. The Case Against Christianity
- A Special Case
- Religious Hijacking
- Canon of Forced Fit
- The Coherence of the Trinity
- Odious Salvation
- 19. Naturalism in the Sciences
- Scientism Versus Scientific Naturalism
- Methodological Naturalism
- Part Future Success
- 20. A Soulless World
- Ghosts in Machines
- Mental Machines
- A World of Brains
- 21. The Naturalization of Religion
- The Religious "Majority"
- Imposing Agency
- The Religious Contagion
- From Possible to Plausible
- 22. The Loss of Thou Shalt
- Four Divine Roles
- The Ethics of Divine Whimsy
- A Damning Dilemma
- The Appeal of the Unworkable
- 23. Excising God from Value
- The Precedence and Pedigree of Naturalistic Ethics
- Natural Sources of Right
- The Personal Nature of Meaning
- Goodness First
- 24. Concluding Thoughts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9783030562076
- 3030562077
- OCLC:
- 1222782975
- Publisher Number:
- 99986729433
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