Philosophy and religion : some contemporary perspectives /
edited by Jerry H. Gill.
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Burgess, (c)1968.
- vii, 372 pages ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Reason and quest for revelation / On the ontological mystery / The problem of non-objectifying thinking and speaking / The problem of natural theology / Metaphysical rebellion / Psychoanalysis and religion / Why I am not a Christian / The quest for being / The sacred and the profane : a dialectical understanding of Christianity / Three strata of meaning in religious discourse / The theological task / Theology and objectivity / Can faith validate God-talk? / The logic of God / Mapping the logic of models in science and theology / On understanding mystery / Teilhard de Chardin : a philosophy of precession / The nature of apologetics / Metaphysics as horizon / Deciding whether to believe / P. Tillich -- G. Marcel -- M. Heidegger -- J. Macquarrie -- A. Camus -- E. Fromm -- B. Russell -- S. Hook -- T.J.J. Altizer -- C. Hartshorne -- J.B. Cobb -- S.A. Ogden -- K. Nielsen -- J. Wisdom -- F. Ferre -- I.T. Ramsey -- E.R. Baltazar -- H. Bouillard -- B. Lonergan -- M. Novak.
Generally there are three ways of approaching the philosophical consideration of religion. There is, to begin with, the historical approach which seeks to trace the development of religious questions and theories through their long ancestry. Secondly, there is the topical approach which organizes the main themes of religious philosophy according to logically ordered topics and considers them one by one. Thirdly, there is the "school of thought" of perspectives approach which groups various contributions in the field according to a similarity of method and/or contrast/