Religious Studies articles from December 2001

Religious Studies archives from December 2001

Good-bye to the problem of evil, hello to the problem of veracity.
December 1, 2001... ********** Good-bye to the problem of evil Mill and Mansel In what follows it will not matter very much how the problem of evil is stated. That is to say, it will be of no importance whether the argument is intended to show that...

Atonement without satisfaction.
December 1, 2001... ********** Finding a theory to explain how Christ's life, death, and resurrection can bring about human redemption has long been one of the more intractable tasks faced by the theologian. Perhaps the most interesting and convincing modem...

Freedom, damnation, and the power to sin with impunity.
December 1, 2001... ********** According to traditional Christian theism, we are free to sin, perhaps even to sin with a degree of impunity for awhile, but we are not free to sin with impunity forever. That, indeed, is part of the rationale behind the...

Blocking Rowe's new evidential argument from evil.
December 1, 2001... ********** The evidential argument from evil seeks to show that the variety and profusion of pain and suffering found in the world makes it likely that God does not exist. (1) The evidential argument first appeared on the philosophical...

The fine-tuning argument.
December 1, 2001... ********** The common form of the argument stated The common version of the fine-tuning argument turns on the point that a number of necessary conditions for life are exceedingly improbable. Critics have objected that all the other...

The ens realissimum and necessary being in The Critique of Pure Reason.
December 1, 2001... ********** Introduction In The Critique of Pure Reason, Kant claims that the 'cosmological proof really owes any cogency which it may have to the ontological proof from mere concepts', (1) and a few paragraphs later, he states that...

Infant suffering revisited.
December 1, 2001... ********** Background In two recent articles in this journal, David Basinger and Nathan Nobis raise objections to my characterization of infant suffering and the problem that it presents to theism. (1) In this response I briefly...

Insufficient reason in the 'new cosmological argument'.
December 1, 2001... ********** Cosmological arguments for God's existence typically proceed from the Principle of Sufficient Reason, one version of which states PSR For all propositions p, (p and not Necessarily(p)) entails E(p) where E(p) is true...

Douglas Hedley Coleridge, Philosophy and Religion: Aids to Reflection and the Mirror of the Spirit. (Book reviews).
December 1, 2001... Douglas Hedley Coleridge, Philosophy and Religion: Aids to Reflection and the Mirror of the Spirit. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). [pounds sterling]40.00/$64.95 (Hbk). ISBN 0 521 77035 1. The main thesis of this book is...

Religious Ambiguity and Religious Diversity. (Book reviews).
December 1, 2001... Robert McKim Religious Ambiguity and Religious Diversity. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001). Pp. xi + 280. [pounds]45.00 (Hbk). ISBN 0 19 512835 4. This book is in two parts. The first is entitled 'The hiddenness of God', the...

Garth L. Hallett A Middle Way to God. (Book reviews).
December 1, 2001... Garth L. Hallett A Middle Way to God. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). Pp. xi+162. [pounds sterling]28.50 (Hbk). ISBN 0 19 513268 8. In recent discussion, various writers have tried to forge a 'middle way' between 'fideism' and...

Liam B. Murphy Moral Demands in a Nonideal Theory. (Book notes).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Liam B. Murphy Moral Demands in a Nonideal Theory. (Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2000). Pp. viil+168. o30.00 (Hbk). ISBN 0 19 507976 0. Despite repeated attempts to discredit its rationale, utilitarianism and its many...

Manfred Kuehn Kant: A Biography. (Book notes).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Manfred Kuehn Kant: A Biography. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001). Pp. xxii+544. [pound sterling]30.00 (Hbk). ISBN 0 521 49704 3. This delightful and engaging book is the first full-length biography on Kant for more than...

Amelie Oksenberg Rorty (ed.) The Many Faces of Evil: Historical Perspectives. (Book notes).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Ame1ie Oksenberg Rorty (ed.) The Many Faces of Evil: Historical Perspectives. (London: Routledge, 2001). Pp. xiii + 346. [pound sterling]15.00 (Pbk). ISBN 0 415 24206. This innovative anthology presents a series of historical reflections...