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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Van Inwagen, Peter. Possibility of resurrection and other essays in Christian apologetics. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1998 (OCoLC)605336444 Online version: Van Inwagen, Peter. Possibility of resurrection and other essays in Christian apologetics. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1998 (OCoLC)605910109 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Van Inwagen |
| ISBN: | 0813327318 9780813327310 |
| OCLC Number: | 36994277 |
| Notes: | Collection of essays, some of which were previously published. |
| Description: | x, 118 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Quam Dilecta -- "It Is Wrong, Everywhere, Always, and for Anyone, to Believe Anything upon Insufficient Evidence" -- The possibility of resurrection -- Dualism and materialism: Athens and Jerusalem? -- Probability and evil -- Of "Of Miracles" -- A review of Without Proof or Evidence: essays of O.K. Bouwsma / edited by J.L. Craft and Ronald E. Hustwit -- A review of Universes / John Leslie. |
| Responsibility: | Peter van Inwagen. |
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Abstract:
Peter van Inwagen is a philosopher who became a Christian at the age of forty. His conversion was not a return to the religion of his childhood, but, on the contrary, consisted of the adoption of beliefs that had been held in explicit contempt by the Unitarian Sunday school teachers of his youth, the philosophers responsible for his professional training, and his colleagues in the philosophy department where he had been teaching for ten years at the time of his conversion.
This collection of classic writings represents van Inwagen's attempts to answer the philosophical objections to Christianity that he encountered in these intellectually hostile environments. They include reflections on the charge that religious belief is belief that is unsupported by evidence, on arguments that purport to show that the doctrine of resurrection is metaphysically impossible, on the problem of evil, and on Hume's famous argument against belief in miracles.
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