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The Concept of Faith

A Philosophical Investigation

By: William Lad Sessions

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The Concept of Faith

A Philosophical Investigation

By: William Lad Sessions

Faith lies at the heart of human life, and not just in religious contexts. But just what is faith? In this book William Lad Sessions ventures a new approach to this age-old problem. Viewing it in global terms, he provides an effective and insightful set of analytical tools for deepening our understanding of the ideas of belief.

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Honor For Us

A Philosophical Analysis, Interpretation and Defense

By: William Lad Sessions

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The Concept of Faith

A Philosophical Investigation

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Reading Hume's Dialogues

A Veneration for True Religion

By: William Lad Sessions

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A Veneration for True Religion

By: William Lad Sessions

... establishes the literary and philosophical greatness of the Dialogues in ways that even its warmest admirers have been unable to do before." -- Terence Penelhum In this lively reading of David Hume's Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, William Lad Sessions reveals a complex internal hermeneutic that gives new form, structure, and meaning to the work. Linking situations, character, style, and action to the philosophical concepts presented, Sessions finds meaning contained in the work itself and calls attention to the internal connections between plot, character, rhetoric, and philosophy. The result avoids the main preoccupation of previous commentaries, namely, the attempt to establish which of the main characters speaks for Hume. Concentrating on previously unexplored questions of piety and theology, Sessions asks important questions in the philosophy of religion today -- what is the nature of true religion, what is the relationship between theology and piety, and how should we actively engage with God?

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Indiana University Press

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0253109361

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Honor For Us

A Philosophical Analysis, Interpretation and Defense

By: William Lad Sessions

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God, Time, and Knowledge

By: William Hasker

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God, Time, and Knowledge

By: William Hasker

In God, Time, and Knowledge, William Hasker explores the major issues concerning God's knowledge of the future in relation to time and human freedom: divine foreknowledge, middle knowledge, and divine timelessness. Although he focuses on discussions that have taken place within analytic philosophy in the last thirty years, Hasker also places the issues within the context of the history of philosophical and theological reflection on these matters. Proceeding from a libertarian standpoint, Hasker begins by providing a series of arguments against the possibility of middle knowledge. He next considers and rejects all of the major methods by which the compatibility of foreknowledge and freedom have been defended: the contention that facts about God's past beliefs are soft (or relational) facts about the past, the claim that we have counterfactual power over the past, and the belief that we have the power to bring about or even cause past events. Hasker then carefully examines the notion of God as timelessly eternal and finds it provisionally intelligible; nevertheless, he charges that the doctrine of divine timelessness is inadequately motivated apart from the Augustinian-Neoplatonic metaphysics that was its historical source. He concludes by arguing for a view according to which the future is open and divine providence involves risk-taking. Lucidly and engagingly written, God, Time, and Knowledge is a significant contribution to the contemporary debate over freedom and foreknowledge. It will generate discussion and controversy among philosophers of religion, metaphysicians, and theologians.

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0801485452

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Tulliallan: Four lads o' pairts

By: Rev. William Meiklejohn, M.A.

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Tulliallan: Four lads o' pairts

By: Rev. William Meiklejohn, M.A.

This book contains the stories of four exceptional people who were born in Kincardine-on-Forth, Scotland. Sir James Wylie (1768 - 1854) was surgeon to three Czars of Russia. Sir James Dewar (1842 - 1923) was President of the Chemical Society and Fullerian Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution (a post held previously by Michael Faraday); Robert Maule J.P. (1832 - 1901) and his son Sir Robert (1852 - 1931) were successful entrepreneurs who established and ran 'Maules', one of the most successful early department stores on Edinburgh's famous Princes Street. 100% of profits from this book go to Kincardine Local History Group a non-profit community-run organisation whose aim is to research, preserve, and promote the town's history for the benefit of future generations.

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1291831142

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Religion and Morality

By: William J. Wainwright

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Religion and Morality

By: William J. Wainwright

Religion and Morality addresses central issues arising from religion's relation to morality. Part I offers a sympathetic but critical appraisal of the claim that features of morality provide evidence for the truth of religious belief. Part II examines divine command theories, objections to them, and positive arguments in their support. Part III explores tensions between human morality, as ordinarily understood, and religious requirements by discussing such issues as the conflict between Buddhist and Christian pacifism and requirements of justice, whether 'virtue' without a love of God is really a vice, whether the God of the Abrahamic religions could require us to do something that seems clearly immoral, and the ambiguous relations between religious mysticism and moral behavior. Covering a broad range of topics, this book draws on both historical and contemporary literature, and explores afresh central issues of morality and religion offering new insights for students, academics and the general reader interested in philosophy and religion.

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Routledge

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1351905058

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Reading Hume's Dialogues

A Veneration for True Religion

By: William Lad Sessions

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A Veneration for True Religion

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