Research Catalog

Title

Readings in religious philosophy / Geddes MacGregor, J. Wesley Robb ; under the editorship of Lucius Garvin.

Author

MacGregor, Geddes.

Publication

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, ©1962.

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Additional Authors

Robb, J. Wesley (John Wesley)

Description

vii, 424 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Religion > Philosophy
• Religión > Filosofía

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Definition of religion / Alfred North Whitehead. -- Philosophy, theology, and the philosophy of religion / George Galloway. -- An affirmative faith in the nonexistence of god / Max Otto. -- War thoughts in winter / W. Fraser Mitchell. -- An interpretation of the nature of religion / Miguel de Unamuno. -- The hound of heaven / Francis Thompson. -- On nature / Lucretius. -- Faith and Reason ; the use of allegory ; evil also serves / Origen. -- Creation and evil / Augustine. -- The larger self / Josiah Royce. -- A positivistic view of religion / Auguste Comte. -- The prime mover / Aristotle. -- The ontological argument / Anselm. -- The existence of god: the five ways / Thomas Aquinas. -- The ontological argument / René Descartes.
• Monadology / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. -- On Pascal / François Mauriac. -- On Kierkegaard / Howard Albert Johnson. -- On miracles / David Hume. -- Evil in man / Immanuel Kant. -- The Jesuit method of meditation / Ignatius Loyola. -- The illative sense / John Henry Newman. -- Against the rationalist obsession / Henri Bremond. -- He was called Jesus ; Jesus of Nazareth / Paul Jury. -- The numinous / Rudolf Otto. -- The centrality of agape in the Christian religion / Anders Nygren. -- The freedom of the will / Austin Farrer. -- The immortality of the soul / Plato. -- A view of the future life / F.C.S. Schiller. -- The meaning of heaven and hell / Friedrich von Hügel. -- On living and dying / W.E. Hocking. -- Death / Donald MacKinnon.
• Love and friendship / Aristotle. -- Theism and moral values / W.R. Sorley. -- A pragmatic approach to the moral life / William James. -- Reverence for life / Albert Schweitzer. -- The response of man to man / Martin Buber. -- Job. -- Chance and providence / Boethius. -- Nature neither good nor evil / David Hume. -- Finitude and evil / William Temple. -- The problem of evil and some attempted solutions / C.J. Ducasse. -- "All glorious within" / Bruce Marshall. -- God is meaningless / A.J. Ayer. -- Errors of logical positivism / A.D. Ritchie. -- Meaninglessness / A.C. Ewing. -- Logical positivism: discussion between professor Ayer and father Copleston / A.J. Ayer and F.C. Copleston.
• Can the verification principle be applied to Christian doctrine? / David Cox and Thomas McPherson. -- The power of metaphor / Ernst Cassirer. -- Demythologizing and the problem of validity / Ronald W. Hepburn. -- The function of metaphor / F.W. Dillistone. -- The language of religion / W. Fraser Mitchell. -- Expression of the experience of god / H.D. Lewis.

LCCN

62004425

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library