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Informationen zum Autor Charles Taliaferro is professor of philosophy at St. Olaf College and the author or editor of eleven books, including Evidence and Faith: Philosophy and Religion since the Seventeenth Century (2005). He is on the editorial board of American Philosophical Quarterly , Philosophy Compass , Sophia , and Religious Studies , and has been a visiting scholar at NYU and Oxford, Princeton, and Columbia Universities. Paul Draper is professor of philosophy at Purdue University and a former president of the Society for Philosophy of Religion. He is the author of the article "Pain and Pleasure: An Evidential Problem for Theists" in Nous (1989) and the editor of God or Blind Nature? Philosophers Debate the Evidence (2007). He is editor of Philo: A Journal of Philosophy and serves on the editorial boards of International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Faith and Philosophy . Philip L. Quinn (1940-2004) was John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He was author of Divine Commands and Moral Requirements (1978) and of numerous articles in philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, theoretical physics, religious ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, value theory, political philosophy, and philosophy and literature. Klappentext In 85 new and updated essays, this comprehensive volume provides an authoritative guide to the philosophy of religion.* Includes contributions from established philosophers and rising stars* 22 new entries have now been added, and all material from the previous edition has been updated and reorganized* Broad coverage spans the areas of world religions, theism, atheism, , the problem of evil, science and religion, and ethics Zusammenfassung In 85 new and updated essays written by an outstanding cast of leading scholars and rising stars in the field, this comprehensive volume provides an authoritative guide to the philosophy of religion. This extensively revised second edition contains 22 new entries combined with updated and reorganized, material from the previous edition. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors xiii Acknowledgements xviii Introduction to the Second Edition 1 Paul Draper and Charles Taliaferro Part I: Philosophical Issues in the Religions of the World 3 1 Hinduism 5 Jonardon Ganeri 2 Buddhism 13 Paul J. Griffiths 3 Chinese Confucianism and Daoism 23 Chad Hansen 4 African Religions from a Philosophical Point of View 34 Kwasi Wiredu 5 Judaism 44 Lenn E. Goodman 6 Christianity 59 William J. Wainwright 7 Philosophy in the Islamic Context 67 Aziz A. Esmail and Azim A. Nanji Part II: Philosophical Theology and Philosophy of Religion in Western History 81 8 Ancient Philosophical Theology 83 Kevin L. Flannery 9 The Christian Contribution to Medieval Philosophical Theology 91 Scott MacDonald 10 The Islamic Contribution to Medieval Philosophical Theology 99 David Burrell 11 The Jewish Contribution to Medieval Philosophical Theology 106 Tamar Rudavsky 12 Early Modern Philosophical Theology on the Continent 114 Derk Pereboom 13 Early Modern Philosophical Theology in Great Britain 124 Geoffrey Gorham 14 The Emergence of Modern Philosophy of Religion 133 Merold Westphal Part III: Philosophy of Religion and Religious Philosophy in the Twentieth Century 141 15 American Pragmatism 143 Nancy Frankenberry 16 Personalism 151 Patricia A. Sayre 17 Process Theology 159 David Ray Griffin 18 Phenomenology and Existent...
