God

By (Editor) Timothy A. Robinson

Book Overview

Contents: Anselm and Gaunilo, 'The Ontological Argument' from Monologian and Proslogian; Aquinas, 'The Five Ways' from Summa Theologica; C.S. Lewis, 'The Argumant from Mortality' from Mere Christianity; Russell, 'Critique of the Traditional Argumants' from Why I am not a Christian; Hume, 'Anthropomorphism' from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion; Smart, 'The Existence of God'; Craig, 'Philosophical and Scientific Pointers to Creatio ex Nihilo'; Russell, 'The 'Scientific' Argument' from The Scientific Outlook; Augustine, 'God and Evil' from Confessions; C.S. Lewis, 'Devine Omnipotence' from The Problem of Pain; Hume, 'Evil and a Finite God' from Dialogues Concerning natural religion; Flew, Hare, Mitchell, 'Theology and Falsification' from New Essays in Philosophical Theology; Plantinga, 'Is Belief in God Properly Basic?' from Nous; Pascal, 'The Wager' from Pensees; James, 'The Reality of the Unseen' from The Varieties of Religious Experience and 'The Will to Believe' from Pragmatism and Other Essays; Otto, 'The Idea of the Holy' from The Idea of the Holy; Eliade, 'The Phenomenology of Religion' from The Myth of the Eternal Return; Nietzsche, 'Religion and Power' from The Genealogy of Morals, The Gay Science, and Beyond Good and Evil; Freud, 'The Psychological Origins of Religion' fromTotem and Taboo, The Future of an Illusion, and, Civilisation and its Discontents; Satre, 'Atheistic Existentialism' from Existentialism and Human Emotions; Camus, 'Absurd' from The Myth of Sisyphus; Berger, 'Signals of Transcendence' from A Rumour of Angels; Buber, 'I and Thou' from I and Thou.Suggested Further Readings

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872202224
• ISBN13: 9780872202221
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Worthwhile

Robinson's selection is a worthwhile look through some extremely diverse views on the existence and character of God, as well as selections of thoughts from various thinkers throughout the ages. Authors as diverse as Aquinas and Nietszche make the grade, as well as the less well known but equally thought provoking. If you're into philosophy, theology, or just want to have your thinking challenged, this is a worthwhile read.

Excellent

This is a useful anthology of writings on God. In 225 pages you get 23 contributors, so all the selections are of a reasonable length. The best part of the book is the nature of the contributors. Rather than just having philosophers, the editor selected writers not normally found in philosophy of religion anthologies such as Otto, Eliade, Freud, Camus and Buber.