Hobbes's philosophy of religion / Thomas Holden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holden, Thomas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Hobbes's Philosophy of Religion presents a new scholarly interpretation of Hobbes's treatment of religious speech and practice by arguing that the key to Hobbes's treatment of religion is his theory of religious language.

Contents:

Intro

Halftitle page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

1. Introduction

2. The Language of Natural Religion

2.1 Talk about the Divine Attributes and Actions: The Expressivist Interpretation

2.2 Rival Interpretations

2.3 Is Hobbes's Expressivism Descriptive or Revisionary?

2.4 Why Should We Show God Honor?

2.5 Is Hobbes's Position Genuinely Religious?

2.6 Labeling Hobbes's Religious Position

3. Cosmological and Teleological Reasoning

3.1 For and Against the Cosmological Argument?

3.2 The Affirmative and Skeptical Interpretations

3.3 The Expressivist Interpretation

3.4 God and World

3.5 The Teleological Argument

3.6 Worshipping the 'First' Cause

4. Talking and Thinking about an Inconceivable God

4.1 The Charge of Semantic Atheism

4.2 Naming, Conceiving, and Imagining

4.3 Relational Thoughts and Indefinite Names

4.4 God's Corporeal Existence

5. Love and Fear of an Inconceivable God

5.1 Love and Fear of God

5.2 The Argument from Inconceivability

5.3 The Argument from Propriety

5.4 The Argument from Ignorance

5.5 The Anatomy of Honor

5.6 Redefining 'Love' and 'Fear' of God

5.7 Unsentimental Natural Religion

6. Sin, Necessity, and God's Moral Attributes

6.1 Determinism and the Threat to God's Moral Perfection

6.2 Causing Sin and Authorizing Sin

6.3 Authorizing Sin and Committing Sin

6.4 Causing Human Actions and Causing Sin

6.5 The Appearance of Voluntarism

7. Conventional Religion and Revealed Religion

7.1 Hobbes's Engagement with Scripture

7.2 Against the Sincere Belief Interpretation

7.3 Against the Irreligious Interpretation

7.4 Outward Conformity and the Authority of Scripture

7.5 Outward Conformity and Natural Piety

7.6 Further Interpretive Problems Solved.

7.7 The Language of Revealed Religion

7.8 Coda: The Religion of Thucydides

8. Definitions of Religion

8.1 The Definition of Religion in Leviathan

8.2 "Feare of power invisible"

8.3 The Definition of Religion in De Homine

9. Inward and Outward Atheism

9.1 Inward Atheism

9.2 Three Arguments for the Protected Status of Inward Atheism

9.3 The Argument from Ignorance of the Lawgiver

9.4 Outward Atheism

9.5 Inward Atheism without Outward, Outward without Inward

9.6 How Common Is Inward Atheism?

10. Consequences and Reception

10.1 The Partition of Theology and Philosophy

10.2 Religion as Performance and the Deliteralization of Religious Language

10.3 Indifferentism about Forms of Worship

10.4 The Reception of Hobbes's Philosophy of Religion

10.5 Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Holden, Thomas Hobbes's Philosophy of Religion

ISBN:

0-19-196763-7

0-19-269915-6

0-19-269914-8