The Divine Nature (eBook, ePUB)

Personal and A-Personal Perspectives
Redaktion: Kittle, Simon; Gasser, Georg

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000527650
• Artikelnr.: 63128467

Autorenporträt

Simon Kittle is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. His primary interests are 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.

Inhaltsangabe

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