Existential Reasons for Belief in God

Existential Reasons for Belief in God
Author: Clifford Williams
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2020-03-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725264692

Lived faith involves doctrines, evidences and rational coherence—but it includes much more. Philosopher Clifford Williams puts forth an argument as to why certain needs, desires and emotions have a legitimate place in drawing people into faith in God. Addressing the strongest objections to these types of grounds for faith, he shows how the personal and experiential aspects of belief play an important part in coming to faith and in remaining a believing person.

Existential Reasons for Belief in God

Existential Reasons for Belief in God
Author: Clifford Williams
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2011-02-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830838996

In this book philosopher Clifford Williams argues that needs, desires and emotions have a legitimate place in drawing people into faith. Addressing the strongest objections to these types of reasons, he shows how the personal and experiential aspects of belief play an important part in coming to faith and remaining a believing person.

Existential Reasons for Belief in God

Existential Reasons for Belief in God
Author: Clifford Williams
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2020-03-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725264714

Lived faith involves doctrines, evidences and rational coherence—but it includes much more. Philosopher Clifford Williams puts forth an argument as to why certain needs, desires and emotions have a legitimate place in drawing people into faith in God. Addressing the strongest objections to these types of grounds for faith, he shows how the personal and experiential aspects of belief play an important part in coming to faith and in remaining a believing person.

Religion and the Meaning of Life

Religion and the Meaning of Life
Author: Clifford Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2020-04-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1108421563

Explores life's meaning through the lens of belief in God and lived realities including boredom, denial of death, and suicide.

Faith and Rationality

Faith and Rationality
Author: Alvin Plantinga
Publisher:
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1983
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

A collection of essays by contemporary Calvinist philosophers of religion that examine the epistemology of religious belief between Reformed and Roman Catholic philosophers.

Making Sense of God

Making Sense of God
Author: Timothy Keller
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2016-09-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0525954155

We live in an age of skepticism. Our society places such faith in empirical reason, historical progress, and heartfelt emotion that it’s easy to wonder: Why should anyone believe in Christianity? What role can faith and religion play in our modern lives? In this thoughtful and inspiring new book, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller invites skeptics to consider that Christianity is more relevant now than ever. As human beings, we cannot live without meaning, satisfaction, freedom, identity, justice, and hope. Christianity provides us with unsurpassed resources to meet these needs. Written for both the ardent believer and the skeptic, Making Sense of God shines a light on the profound value and importance of Christianity in our lives.

The Courage to Be

The Courage to Be
Author: Paul Tillich
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2023-11-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

The Courage to Be introduced issues of theology and culture to a general readership. The book examines ontic, moral, and spiritual anxieties across history and in modernity. The author defines courage as the self-affirmation of one's being in spite of a threat of nonbeing. He relates courage to anxiety, anxiety being the threat of non-being and the courage to be what we use to combat that threat. Tillich outlines three types of anxiety and thus three ways to display the courage to be. Tillich writes that the ultimate source of the courage to be is the "God above God," which transcends the theistic idea of God and is the content of absolute faith (defined as "the accepting of the acceptance without somebody or something that accepts").

God in the Age of Science?

God in the Age of Science?
Author: Herman Philipse
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2012-02-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199697531

Herman Philipse puts forward a powerful new critique of belief in God. He examines the strategies that have been used for the philosophical defence of religious belief, and by careful reasoning casts doubt on the legitimacy of relying on faith instead of evidence, and on probabilistic arguments for the existence of God.

Meaning and Mortality in Kierkegaard and Heidegger

Meaning and Mortality in Kierkegaard and Heidegger
Author: Adam Buben
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0810132524

Death is one of those few topics that attract the attention of just about every significant thinker in the history of Western philosophy, and this attention has resulted in diverse and complex views on death and what comes after. In Meaning and Mortality, Adam Buben offers a remarkably useful new framework for understanding the ways in which philosophy has discussed death by focusing first on two traditional strains in the discussion, the Platonic and the Epicurean. After providing a thorough account of this ancient dichotomy, he describes the development of an alternative means of handling death in Søren Kierkegaard and Martin Heidegger, whose work on death tends to overshadow Kierkegaard's despite the undeniable influence exerted on him by the nineteenth-century Dane. Buben argues that Kierkegaard and Heidegger prescribe a peculiar way of living with death that offers a kind of compromise between the Platonic and the Epicurean strains.