Design Discourse in Abrahamic Traditions - History, Metaphysics, and Science

Design Discourse in Abrahamic Traditions reconnects discussion of design arguments to its Jewish, Christian, and Muslim history.

List of contents

Introduction
E. V. R. Kojonen & Shoaib A. Malik
1. The Epistemological Impact of the Argument from Design in Philo of Alexandria
Ludovica De Luca
2. Early Christian Design Discourse: Perceiving the Creator through the Creation
E. V. R. Kojonen
3. Preaching Design: Theology and Rhetoric of Divine Order in Augustine's Sermons
Timo Nisula
4 Wise Design and the Metaphysics of Natural Evil: Al-M¿tur¿d¿'s Divinely Existentiated and Causally Coherent World
Ramon Harvey and David Solomon Jalajel
5 Ibn Taymiyya & Design-Discourse - Perceiving Design through the Natural World & Scripture Jamie B. Turner
6. Neo-Thomism on Evolution
Ignacio Silva
7. A Teleological Argument from Natural Selection
Seth Hart
8. Design and the Laws of Nature
Jeffrey Koperski
9. Design-Argument-Inspired, Midrashic Epistemology of Religion
Samuel Lebens
10. Cosmic Fine-Tuning and Biological Design Arguments: Friends, Enemies, or What?
Hans W. Vodder
11. An Islamic Engagement with Stephen Meyer's Return of the God Hypothesis
Shoaib A. Malik, Mohammed Imran Khan, and Yasmeen Mukadam
12. From Design to God - What Fine-Tuning Design Arguments Tell Us about the Designer Robin Collins

About the author

Erkki Vesa Rope Kojonen is University Lecturer in Systematic Theology at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Shoaib Ahmed Malik is Lecturer in Science and Religion at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Summary

Design Discourse in Abrahamic Traditions reconnects discussion of design arguments to its Jewish, Christian, and Muslim history.

Product details

• Assisted by: E.V.R. Kojonen (Editor), Shoaib A. Malik (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032719900
• ISBN: 978-1-032-71990-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Routledge Science and Religion Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Islam, RELIGION / Judaism / General, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Islam / General, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, RELIGION / Christianity / History, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, RELIGION / Judaism / History, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Islam / Theology, RELIGION / Islam / History, RELIGION / Religion & Science, RELIGION / Judaism / Theology, Philosophy of Science, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, History of Religion, Judaism, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Islamic Theology, Philosophy of religion, Religion and science, Religion & science, Judaism: theology