Reason in the Service of Faith: Collected Essays of Paul Helm

ISBN-13: 9780754662198 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 500 str.

Paul Helm; Edited By Oliver D. Crisp

Opis

Paul Helm is a distinguished philosopher, with particular interests in the philosophy of religion. His work covers some of the most important aspects of the field as it has developed in the last thirty years with particular contributions to metaphysics, religious epistemology and philosophical theology. This volume brings together a range of his essays, reflecting these central concerns of his thought. Helm's selected essays are gathered into sub-sections prefaced with a short editorial introduction. The volume ends with a bibliography of Helm's published works. There will also be an introductory essay setting out the main themes in Helm's work to date.

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Preface  Editor's Introduction  Part 1. Metaphilosophical Issues  1. On Pancritical Irrationalism  2. Understanding Scholarly Presuppositions  3. The Perfect and the Particular  4. A Plea for Objectivity  5. Anthropomorphism Protestant Style: Two Current Approaches  Part 2. Action, Change and Personal Identity  6. Pretending and Intending  7. Pike on Prior on Action  8. Are 'Cambridge Changes' Non-events?  9. Detecting Change  10. A Theory of Disembodied Survival and Re-embodied Existence  11. Locke's Theory of Personal Identity  Part 3. Epistemology  12. Revealed Propositions and Timeless Truths  13. Locke on Faith and Knowledge  14. Does the Authority of a Tradition Exclude the Possibility of Change?  15. Two Ideas of Revelation  16. Speaking and Revealing  17. The Indispensability of Belief to Religion  18. Wittgensteinian Religion and 'Reformed' Epistemology  19. Why was Thomas Reid not a 'Reformed' Epistemologist?  20. Faith, Evidence and the Scriptures  Part 4. God  21. God and Whatever Comes to Pass  22. Grace and Causation  23. God and Spacelessness  24. The Impossibility of Divine Impassibility  25. Omniscience and Eternity  26. Divine Timeless Eternity  27. The Augustinian-Calvinist View  28. Eternal Creation  29. The Problem of Dialogue  30. Divine Causation and Analogy  Part 5. Creation, Providence and Prayer  31. Universalism and the Threat of Hell  32. Asking God  33. Prayer and Providence  34. Preserving Perseverance  35. Providence and Compatibilism  36. The Plan of God  37. Starting to Be and Ceasing to Be  38. Can God Love the World?  39. All Things Considered: Providence and Divine Purpose  40. Of God's Eternal Decree  Bibliography: Publications of Paul Helm  Index