God and Goodness: A Natural Theological Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780415199155 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 240 str.

Mark Wynn

Opis

Taking the experience of value as a starting point for natural theology, this text argues that theism offers our best understanding of the goodness of the world, especially its beauty and openness to the development of richer and more complex material forms. We also see that the world's goodness calls for a moral response: commitment to the goodness of the world represents a natural extension of the trust to which we aspire in our dealings with human beings. Wynn argues that the goodness of the world provides a glimpse into what we should mean by God. Here, he seeks to recover the mediaeval sense that the goodness of the world offers an image of the goodness of God, not simply in relation to the world, but in itself.

Recenzje

'...a most attractive as well as quite a persuasive book.' - Hugo Meynell, The Heythrop Journal Vol. 42, No. 2, April 2001

'God and Goodness is a splendid, significant text' - Faith and Philosophy, Charles Taliaferro, January 2001

it 'provides the best defence of the design argument that is presently available' - Religious Studies, Marcel Sarcot, March 2001

Spis treści

Introduction; Part 1 The goodness of the world as its reason for existence; Chapter 1 Providence and beauty; Chapter 2 The world as a source of value; Part 2 Disvalues and the goodness of the world; Chapter 3 Providence and evil; Chapter 4 Theodicy in an ecological mode; Part 3 Moral commitment to the goodness of the world; Chapter 5 A non-epistemic case for trusting in the goodness of the world; Part 4 The goodness of the world and the concept of God; Chapter 6 Worship and the concept of God; Chapter 7 Salvation and the concept of God; Chapter 8 Conclusion;

O autorze

Mark Wynn is a lecturer in the Philosophy of Religion at the Australian Catholic University.