The Divine Nature

NOTE EDITORE

This book is the first systematic treatment of the strengths and limitations of personal and a-personal conceptions of the divine. It features contributions from Jewish, Islamic, Chinese, Indian and naturalistic backgrounds in addition to those working within a decidedly Christian framework. This book discusses whether the concept of God in classical theism is coherent at all and whether the traditional understanding of some of the divine attributes need to be modified. The contributors explore what the proposed spiritual and practical merits and demerits of personal and a-personal conceptions of God might be. Additionally, their diverse perspectives reflect a broader trend within the analytic philosophy of religion to incorporate various non-Western religious traditions. Tackling these issues carefully is needed to do justice to the strengths and limitations of personal and a-personal accounts to the divine. The Divine Nature: Personaland A-Personal Perspectives will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of religion and philosophical theology.

SOMMARIO

1. Introduction: Thinking about Personal and A-Personal Aspects of the Divine Simon Kittle and Georg Gasser Section I: A-Personal Aspects of the Divine: Theoretical Virtues and Limits 2. Personal Theism vs. A-Personal Axiarchism Yujin Nagasawa 3. Life and Finite Individuality: Revisiting a debate in British Idealism N. N. Trakakis 4. Hope for Ultimate Goodness within Theism and Euteleology Georg Gasser 5. Is God a Person? Maimonidean and Neo-Maimonidean Perspectives Samuel Lebens 6. On Timelessness and Mystery Natalja Deng 7. Classical Islamic Conceptions of God and Revelation: God Is Not a Person but Can Speak Mohammad Saleh Zarepour Section II: Personal Aspects of the Divine: Theoretical Virtues and Limits 8. Metatheology and the Ontology of Divinity Jonathan L. Kvanvig 9. What we cannot know about God Richard Swinburne 10. Against Synchronic Free Will: Or, why a personal God must be temporal Simon Kittle 11. An Apophatic Approach to God’s ‘Personal’ Nature Christopher C. Knight 12. Impassibility, Omnisubjectivity and Divine Eternality R. T. Mullins Section III: Practical Implications of Personal and A-Personal Aspects of the Divine 13. Spiritual Practice and Divine Personhood Mark Wynn 14. A-Personal conceptions of God and the Christian promise of eternal life John Bishop and Ken Perszyk 15. Can only a suffering God help? Anastasia Philippa Scrutton 16. Could we worship a non-human-centred impersonal cosmic purpose? Tim Mulgan 17. A God for the Atheists and Nones? Exploring Chinese and Indian Nonpersonal Conceptions of Ultimate Reality Mark Berkson

AUTORE

Simon Kittle is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. His primary interestsare the topics of human agency and free will, and questions connected with that topic. Georg Gasser is Professor for Philosophy at Augsburg University, Germany, and the main editor of the European Journal for Philosophy of Religion. Georg received his Ph.D. from Innsbruck University and his habilitation from the Munich School of Philosophy. Georg’s scholarly work addresses topics in personal identity, the ontology of the human person, philosophical theology and the metaphysics of resurrection.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780367619268
• Collana: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Religion
• Dimensioni: 9 x 6 in Ø 1.80 lb
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 1 table
• Pagine Arabe: 348
• Pagine Romane: viii