Religious Studies articles from June 1999

Religious Studies archives from June 1999

Betting on God: why considerations of simplicity won't help.
June 1, 1999... I INTRODUCTION Either God is or He is not. But to which view shall we be inclined? Reason cannot decide the question. Infinite chaos separates us. At the far end of this infinite distance a coin is being spun which will come down...

Religious pluralism.
June 1, 1999... I The path to religious pluralism starts with the now commonplace fact that our world contains a number of religious faiths having different ideas as to the nature of the divine reality - for example, whether the divine is personal or...

Kant and religion: conflict or compromise?(Immanuel Kant's philosophy of religion)
June 1, 1999... I INTRODUCTION Despite the fact that Immanuel Kant's philosophy of religion has received much attention in recent years, his position on theology continues to be understood in remarkably different ways. Interpreters emphasizing the...

Mere addition and the best of all possible worlds.
June 1, 1999... I INTRODUCTION In The Existence of God, Richard Swinburne neatly summarizes a simple argument against the coherence of the notion of a best among possible worlds: ... take any world W. Presumably the goodness of such a world......

Stump's theodicy of redemptive suffering and Molinism.(philosopher Eleonore Stump)
June 1, 1999... Eleonore Stump develops and defends a theodicy for serious undeserved involuntary suffering.(1) God's ultimate end for free creatures is union with him in heaven. God uses suffering for our redemption. In particular, God's permission of...

Can science explain mysticism?
June 1, 1999... I In two earlier articles which appeared in this journal, I took up a provocative claim, made by William Alston and others, that mystical experience has not been, and is very unlikely ever to be, scientifically explained.(1) That claim...

Anerkennung and Absolute Religion: Formierung der Gessellschaftstheorie und Genese der Spekulativen Religionphilosophie in Hegel's Fruhschriften.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Thomas M. Schmidt. (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzbook, 1997). Hegel did not 'carry on his studies in public'. Apart from the two essays On the Difference between Fichte's and Schelling's System of Philosophy (1801) and Faith and...

God and Inscrutable Evil: In Defense of Theism and Atheism.(Review)
June 1, 1999... David O'Connor. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998). Pp. xiii+273. [pounds]53 Hbk, [pounds]19.95 Pbk. In our world there is a great deal of apparently pointless evil. While this fact does not provide conclusive proof that there is...

Questions of Time and Tense.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Robin Le Poidevin (ed.). (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998). Pp. xii+293. [pounds]35.00 Hbk. Some of what we say, think or write has no significant tense. An example is 'two twos are four': this could never change its truth-value; to be...

Analytische Religionsphilosophie.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 1999... Christoph Jager (ed.). (Paderborn-Munich-Vienna-Zurich: Ferdinand Schoningh, 1998). Pp iv + 375. DM 18 Pbk. In this welcome volume Christoph Jagger makes accessible to German readers the fruits of recent anglophone philosophy of religion....

The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 1999... Peter Harrison. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). Pp. xi + 313. [pounds]35.00 Hbk. Peter Harrison's book examines the role played by Biblical interpretation in the emergence of natural science. The central argument of the...

Utilitarians and Religion.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 1999... James E. Crimmins (ed.). (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1998). Pp. iii+502, [pounds]29.95 Pbk. James Crimmins is already known to the world of utilitarian studies for his widely acclaimed study, Secular Utilitarianism: Social Science and the...

The Resurrection.(Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 1999... Stephen T. Davis, Daniel Kendall S.J., and Gerald O'Collins S.J. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997). Pp. xviii+ 368. [pounds]30.00 Hbk. This collection of papers had its origins in an international, ecumenical, and interdisciplinary...