| Description |
1 online resource (270 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Faith: Virtue of faith -- Kierkegaard's arguments against objective reasoning in religion -- Leap of faith -- pt. 2. Problem of evil: Must God create the best? -- Existence, self-interest, and the problem of evil -- Middle knowledge and the problem of evil -- pt. 3. God and ethics: A modified divine command theory of ethical wrongness -- Autonomy and theological ethics -- Divine command metaethics modified again -- Moral arguments for theistic belief -- Saints -- Pure love -- pt. 2. Metaphysics of theism: Has it been proved that all real existence is contingent? -- Divine necessity -- Logical structure of Anselm's arguments -- Flavors, colors, and God. |
| Summary |
A collection of essays - two of them previously unpublished - by Professor Adams, who has been a leader in renewing philosophical respect for the idea that moral obligation may be founded on the command of God. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Religion -- Philosophy.
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Religion -- Philosophy. |
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Ethics.
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Ethics. |
| Indexed Term |
Religion - Philosophical perspectives |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Adams, Robert Merrihew. Virtue of faith and other essays in philosophical theology. New York : Oxford University Press, 1987 (DLC) 86008776 |
| ISBN |
9780195364781 (electronic book) |
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0195364783 (electronic book) |
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1280439564 |
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9781280439568 |
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9780195041453 (alkaline paper) |
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0195041453 (alkaline paper) |
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0195041461 (Paper) |
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9780195041460 |
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0195041453 (alkaline paper) |
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