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.
Ubuntu and Western Monotheism: An Axiological Investigation
1st Edition
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 ...
Christian Ethics and Commonsense Morality: An Intuitionist Account
1st Edition
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 ...
Philosophical Approaches to the Devil
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By Benjamin W. McCraw, Robert Arp
January 23, 2019
This collection brings together new papers addressing the philosophical challenges that the concept of a Devil presents, bringing philosophical rigor to treatments of the Devil. Contributors approach the idea of the Devil from a variety of philosophical traditions, methodologies, and styles, ...
Galileo and the Conflict between Religion and Science
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By Gregory Dawes
January 17, 2019
For more than 30 years, historians have rejected what they call the ‘warfare thesis’ – the idea that there is an inevitable conflict between religion and science – insisting that scientists and believers can live in harmony. This book disagrees. Taking as its starting point the most famous of all ...
God and the Multiverse: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives
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By Klaas Kraay
June 16, 2017
In recent decades, scientific theories have postulated the existence of many universes beyond our own. The details and implications of these theories are hotly contested. Some philosophers argue that these scientific models count against the existence of God. Others, however, argue that if God ...
Is Faith in God Reasonable?: Debates in Philosophy, Science, and Rhetoric
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By Corey Miller, Paul Gould
July 27, 2016
The question of whether faith in God is reasonable is of renewed interest in today’s academy. In light of this interest, as well as the rise of militant religion and terrorism and the emergent reaction by neo-atheism, this volume considers this important question from the views of contemporary...
Metaphysics and God: Essays in Honor of Eleonore Stump
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By Kevin Timpe
April 23, 2015
This volume focuses on contemporary issues in the philosophy of religion through an engagement with Eleonore Stump’s seminal work in the field. Topics covered include: the metaphysics of the divine nature (e.g., divine simplicity and eternity); the nature of love and God’s relation to human ...
Theism and Explanation
1st Edition
By Gregory W. Dawes
April 23, 2015
In this timely study, Dawes defends the methodological naturalism of the sciences. Though religions offer what appear to be explanations of various facts about the world, the scientist, as scientist, will not take such proposed explanations seriously. Even if no natural explanation were available, ...
The Metaphysics of Perfect Beings
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By Michael J. Almeida
June 09, 2014
The Metaphysics of Perfect Beings addresses the problems an Anselmian perfect being faces in contexts involving unlimited options. Recent advances in the theory of vagueness, the metaphysics of multiverses and hyperspace, the theory of dynamic or sequential choice, the logic of moral and rational ...