Religious Studies articles from March 2001

Religious Studies archives from March 2001

Faith with Reason.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Paul Helm Faith with Reason. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000). Pp. xvi + 185. [pound]25.00. ISBN 0 19 823845 2. Paul Helm's latest book is yet another welcome contribution to one of the liveliest debates in contemporary philosophy...

God and Goodness: A Natural Theological Perspective.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Mark Wynn God and Goodness: A Natural Theological Perspective. (Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Religion). (London/New York: Routledge, 1999). Pp. xi + 228 [pound]50.00 (Hbk). ISBN 0 415 19915 8. This excellent small book provides...

The Question of Christian Philosophy Today.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Francis J. Ambrosio (ed.) The Question of Christian Philosophy Today. (New York, Fordham University Press, 1999). Pp. xxvi + 366. [pound]27.95 (Hbk), [pound]13.95 (Pbk). ISBN 0 8232 1982 8. This collection of essays comes from a...

Religious Experience, Justification, and History.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Matthew C. Bagger Religious Experience, Justification, and History. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). Pp. ix + 238. [pound]37.50 (Hbk). ISBN 0 521 62255 7. This is a difficult book to review. Applying the principle of...

'Balancing out' infant torture and death: a reply to Chignell.(Andrew Chignell)
March 1, 2001... Abstract: In a recent article published in this journal, Andrew Chignell proposes some candidates for greater or 'balancing out' goods that could explain why God allows some infants to be tortured to death. I argue that each of Chignell's...

Topic neutrality and the parity thesis: a surrejoinder to Williams.
March 1, 2001... Abstract: In an important paper, Clifford Williams advanced a Lockean-style argument to justify the parity thesis, viz., that there is no intellectual advantage to Christian physicalism or Christian dualism. In an article in Religious Studies...

Leibniz de Deo Trino: philosophical aspects of Leibniz's conception of the Trinity.
March 1, 2001... Abstract: This paper discusses Leibniz's Trinitarian doctrine in the light of his philosophy, as revealed by a set of virtually unstudied texts. The first part of the paper examines Leibniz's defence of the Trinity against the charge of...

God is great, God is good: medieval conceptions of divine goodness and the problem of hell.
March 1, 2001... Abstract: Medieval views of both divine goodness and the doctrine of hell are examined and shown to be incompatible with our best understandings of goodness. The only manner in which God could be good to those in hell -- by permitting their...

Miracles and laws of nature.
March 1, 2001... Abstract: In this paper, I argue that miracles should not be defined as involving violations of natural laws. They should be defined as signs of particular volitions of the deity or of other supernatural agents. I suggest that one may,...

Alston's epistemology of religious belief and the problem of religious diversity.
March 1, 2001... Abstract: In this paper I examine William Alston's work on the epistemology of religious belief, focusing on the threat to the epistemic status of Christian belief presented by awareness of religious diversity. I argue that Alston appears to...

The indispensability of belief to religion.
March 1, 2001... Abstract: The article examines a central methodological tenet of Grace Jantzen's Becoming Divine. In this book she turns her back on what she calls Anglo-American philosophy of religion in favour of what she calls a continental approach. I...

What price neutrality? a reply to Paul Helm.
March 1, 2001... Abstract: Paul Helm's discussion of my book is a clear Illustration of some of my central claims about Anglo-American philosophy of religion: he instantiates its undue preoccupation with beliefs, and its erasure of gender. In my reply I show...