Research Catalog

Title

Does God's existence need proof? / Richard Messer.

Author

Messer, Richard.

Publication

Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

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Details

Description

160 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• Phillips, D. Z
• Swinburne, Richard
• Gott, ..
• God > Proof
• Gottesbeweis
• Philosophie
• Godsbewijzen
• God > Proof > History of doctrines
• existence de Dieu > preuve de l'existence de Dieu

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-155) and index.

Contents

God and religious language -- The meaning of religious language -- The nature of God -- The proper role of philosophy -- The power of reason -- The limits of reason -- The inappropriateness of the proofs -- The depth of disagreement -- Phillips as revisionist -- Phillips as atheist -- Phillips as obstructionist -- Phillips as relativist -- Relativity and criteria -- Types of relativism -- The relativity of philosophical criteria -- The authority of criteria -- Trust and disagreement -- Divergent discourse -- Personal absolutes and absolutes per se -- The concept of fundamental trust -- The appropriateness of the proofs -- Philosophical response to relativity -- Fundamental trust and relativity in Swinburne and Phillips -- The relativity of the proofs.

ISBN

• 0198267479
• 9780198267478
• 0198269714
• 9780198269717

LCCN

92045110

OCLC

• ocm27224167
• 27224167
• SCSB-1999807

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library