Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Religion
About the Book Series
The aim of this series is to publish high quality research monographs in the philosophy of religion. It seeks to make available to an international audience new work in the subject which is at the cutting edge of current debates in the philosophy of religion. The series is not restricted by allegiance to religious confession or philosophical school but welcomes authors and topics from the broadest range in analytical philosophy of religion.
Value Beyond Monotheism: The Axiology of the Divine
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By Kirk Lougheed
August 26, 2024
This book expands the current axiology of theism literature by assessing the axiological status of alternative conceptions of God and the divine. To date, most of the literature on the axiology of theism focuses almost exclusively on the axiological status of theism and atheism. Specifically, it ...
A Philosophy of Faith: Belief, Truth and Varieties of Commitment
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By Finlay Malcolm, Michael Scott
May 27, 2024
Faith occupies an important place in human lives. It can be directed towards God, friends, political systems and sports teams, and is said to help people through crises and to motivate people to achieve life goals. But what is faith? Philosophers and theologians have, for centuries, been concerned ...
Ubuntu and Western Monotheism: An Axiological Investigation
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By Kirk Lougheed
May 27, 2024
This book offers a unique comparative study of ubuntu, a dominant ethical theory in African philosophy, and western monotheism. It is the first book to bring ubuntu to bear on the axiology of theism debate in contemporary analytic philosophy of religion. A large motivating force behind this ...
Aquinas on Faith, Reason, and Charity
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By Roberto Di Ceglie
January 29, 2024
This book offers a new reading of Aquinas’s views on faith. The author argues that the theological nature of faith is crucial to Aquinas’s thought, and that it gives rise to a particular and otherwise incomprehensible relationship with reason. The first part of the book examines various modern and ...
Philosophical Essays on Divine Causation
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By Gregory Ganssle
January 29, 2024
This book discusses various aspects of God’s causal activity. Traditional theology has long held that God acts in the world and interrupts the normal course of events by performing special acts. Although the tradition is unified in affirming that God does create, conserve, and act, there is much ...
The Divine Nature: Personal and A-Personal Perspectives
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By Simon Kittle, Georg Gasser
January 29, 2024
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 ...
The Lost Sheep in Philosophy of Religion: New Perspectives on Disability, Gender, Race, and Animals
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By Blake Hereth, Kevin Timpe
September 30, 2021
Contemporary research in philosophy of religion is dominated by traditional problems such as the nature of evil, arguments against theism, issues of foreknowledge and freedom, the divine attributes, and religious pluralism. This volume instead focuses on unrepresented and underrepresented issues in...
Cosmological Fine-Tuning Arguments: What (if Anything) Should We Infer from the Fine-Tuning of Our Universe for Life?
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By Jason Waller
June 30, 2021
If the physical constants, initial conditions, or laws of nature in our universe had been even slightly different, then the evolution of life would have been impossible. This observation has led many philosophers and scientists to ask the natural next question: why is our universe so "fine-tuned" ...
Philosophical Essays Against Open Theism
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By Benjamin H. Arbour
June 30, 2021
This new collection of philosophically rigorous essays critiques the interpretation of divine omniscience known as open theism, focusing primarily on philosophically motivated open theism and positing arguments that reject divine knowledge of future contingents in the face of the dilemma of freedom...
Christian Ethics and Commonsense Morality: An Intuitionist Account
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By Kevin Jung
March 31, 2021
Christian Ethics and Commonsense Morality goes against the grain of various postmodern approaches to morality in contemporary religious ethics. In this book, Jung seeks to provide a new framework in which the nature of common Christian moral beliefs and practices can be given a new meaning. He ...
Religious Ethics and Constructivism: A Metaethical Inquiry
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By Kevin Jung
December 18, 2020
In metaethics, there is a divide between those who believe that there exist moral facts independently of human interests and attitudes (i.e., moral realists) and those who don’t (i.e., antirealists). In the last half century, the field of religious ethics has been inundated with various antirealist...
Does God Matter?: Essays on the Axiological Consequences of Theism
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By Klaas Kraay
September 30, 2020
Does God Matter? features eleven original essays written by prominent philosophers of religion that address this very important, yet surprisingly neglected, question. One natural way to approach this question is to seek to understand what difference God’s existence would—or does—make to the value ...