Contemporary Philosophy and the Latter-Day Saint Tradition.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Taylor-Grey.

Contributor:

Paxman, Katharina

Series:

Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Religion Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2026.

Summary:

The Latter-day Saint theological tradition includes philosophically interesting commitments that are distinctive in relation to Classical Christian traditions. This is the first volume to offer an explicitly philosophical treatment of key ideas in the Latter-day Saint tradition.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Contributors

Introduction

Notes

Bibliography

Chapter 1: Bare Theism and Latter-day Saint Philosophical Theology

1.1 The Disputed Theism of Latter-day Saint Theology

1.2 A Proposed Explication of Bare Theism

1.3 LDS Theology and Exclusive Agential Ultimacy

1.3.1 King Follettism and the Rejection of Ultimate or Fundamental Explanation

1.3.2 David Paulsenʼs Non-Agential Explanations of Ultimate/Fundamental Order

1.3.3 King Follettism and Pluralistic Agential Ultimacy

1.3.4 Popular LDS Theological Pictures Are Plausibly Nontheistic

1.4 Interpreting LDS Theology Theistically

1.4.1 The Ultimacy of a Theistic LDS God

1.4.2 The Spatiotemporal Location of a Theistic LDS God

1.4.3 The Uniqueness of a Theistic LDS God

1.4.4 The Modal Status of Reality

1.4.5 LDS Theism

1.5 Who Cares?

1.6 Conclusions

Works Cited

Chapter 2: God an Alien, or an Alien God?

2.1 Classical Theism, Finite Theism

2.2 What Good Is Analogy?

Chapter 3: Is God Subordinate to Law?

3.1 Introduction

3.2 A Call for a More Careful Metaphysics

3.3 Three Historically Important Arguments for Subordination

3.3.1 The Book of Mormon and the "Cease to Be God" Argument

3.3.2 Pratt and the Physicalist Argument

3.3.3 Roberts and the Moral Argument

3.4 Conclusion

References

Chapter 4: What Kind of a Body Is God's?

4.1 Part One: Bodies and Matter

4.2 Part Two: Bodies and Existence

4.2.1 Thesis I: To Have a Body Is to Actualize a World

4.2.2 Thesis II: To Have a Body Is to Have a Specific Place in and Orientation to the World

4.2.3 Thesis III: For Us, to Have a Body Is to Be a Necessary Contingency

4.2.4 Thesis IV: To Have a Body Is to Be at Risk.

4.3 Conclusion

Chapter 5: Joseph Smith and the Specter of Classical Theism

5.1 Intelligences Are Metaphysically Simple

5.2 All Possible Intelligences Exist

5.2.1 Formalization of the Argument and a Demonstration of Its Validity

5.2.2 Defense of Premise (2)

5.3 Possibly, There Is a Greatest Possible Intelligence

5.4 On the Nature of the Greatest Possible Intelligence

5.5 Reactions

Chapter 6: A Social Contract Theodicy

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Part 1: Social Contract Theory

6.3 Part 2: The Premortal Choice

6.4 Part 3: Social Contract Theodicy

6.5 Conclusion

Chapter 7: Mormonism, Feminism, and Relational Moral Agency

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Moral Agency in Feminist Philosophy

7.3 Finding Feminist Philosophy in Mormonism

7.4 The Mormon Conception of God

7.5 Embodied, Relational Epistemology

7.6 Responding Ethically to Vulnerability

7.7 Conclusion

Chapter 8: Authority Without Dominion

8.1 A Puzzle about Authority

8.2 Letter from Liberty Jail

8.3 Matthew's Trilogy of Parables

8.4 Two Concepts of Authority

8.5 Conclusion

Chapter 9: The Sacred Nature of Shared Feeling: The Centrality of Empathy in the Latter-day Saint Tradition

9.1 Philosophy on Empathy

9.2 Empathic Experience in the LDS Tradition

9.3 Empathy in the Book of Mormon

9.4 Empathic Experience in the Pearl of Great Price

9.5 Empathy in LDS Theology

9.6 Conclusion: Future Questions about the Sacred Nature of Shared Feeling

Chapter 10: Why a Latter-day Saint Might Recite the Nicene Creed

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Creedal Antagonism

10.3 Verbal Agreement

10.4 Doctrine

10.4.1 Christology

10.4.1.1 Biblical Phrases

10.4.1.2 Metaphors.

10.4.1.2.1 Truth

10.4.1.2.2 Light

10.4.1.2.3 Begetting

10.4.1.3 Homoousios

10.4.2 Ecclesiology

10.5 Conclusion

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781003649397

9781040577905

9781040682739

OCLC:

1597388348