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The proposition that the existence of God is demonstrable by rational argument is doubted by nearly all philosophical opinion today and is thought by most Christian theologians to be incompatible with Christian faith. This book argues that, on the contrary, there are reasons of faith why in principle the existence of God should be thought rationally demonstrable and that it is worthwhile revisiting the theology of Thomas Aquinas to see why this is so. The book further suggests that philosophical objections to proofs of God's existence rely upon an attenuated and impoverished conception of reason which theologians of all monotheistic traditions might wish to reject. Denys Turner proposes that on a broader and deeper conception of it, human rationality is open to the 'sacramental shape' of creation as such and in its exercise of rational proof of God it in some way participates in that sacramentality of all things.

God --- Dieu --- Proof, Ontological. --- Existence --- Preuve ontologique --- Ontological argument --- Ontology --- Proof, Ontological --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion --- God - Proof, Ontological.

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Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, published in Latin in 1641, is one of the most widely studied philosophical texts of all time, and inaugurates many of the key themes that have remained central to philosophy ever since. In his original Latin text Descartes expresses himself with great lucidity and elegance, and there is enormous interest, even for those who are not fluent in Latin, in seeing how the famous concepts and arguments of his great masterpiece unfold in the original language. John Cottingham's acclaimed English translation of the work is presented here in a facing-page edition alongside the original Latin text. Students of classical philosophy have long had the benefit of dual-language editions, and the availability of such a resource for the canonical works of the early-modern period is long overdue. This volume now makes available, in an invaluable dual-language format, one of the most seminal texts of Western philosophy.

First philosophy. --- God --- Methodology. --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Research --- Ontological argument --- Ontology --- Metaphysics --- Proof, Ontological. --- Methodology --- Arts and Humanities --- Humanities Methodology

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In Descartes's Meditations, the thinker rejects all his former beliefs in the quest for new certainties. He develops new conceptions of body and mind to create a new science of nature. This new translation includes a wide-ranging, accessible introduction, notes and full selections from the Objections and Replies. - ;'It is some years now since I realized how many false opinions I had accepted as true from childhood onwards...I saw that at some stage in my life the whole structure would have to be utterly demolished'. In Descartes's Meditations, one of the key texts of Western philosophy, the t

First philosophy. --- God --- Methodology. --- Knowledge, Theory of. --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Research --- Ontological argument --- Ontology --- Metaphysics --- Proof, Ontological. --- Methodology --- Humanities Methodology

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In recent years, the ontological argument and theistic metaphysics have been criticised by philosophers working in both the analytic and continental traditions. Responses to these criticisms have primarily come from philosophers who make use of the traditional, and problematic, concept of God. In this 2006 volume, Daniel A. Dombrowski defends the ontological argument against its contemporary critics, but he does so by using a neoclassical or process concept of God, thereby strengthening the case for a contemporary theistic metaphysics. Relying on the thought of Charles Hartshorne, he builds on Hartshorne's crucial distinction between divine existence and divine actuality, which enables neoclassical defenders of the ontological argument to avoid the familiar criticism that the argument moves illegitimately from an abstract concept to concrete reality. His argument, thus, avoids the problems inherent in the traditional concept of God as static.

God --- Process theology --- Theism --- Philosophy --- Religion --- Atheism --- Misotheism --- Panentheism --- Theology, Process --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Ontological argument --- Ontology --- Proof, Ontological --- Theism. --- Process theology. --- Proof, Ontological. --- Arts and Humanities

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Brian Leftow offers a theist theory of necessity and possibility, and a new sort of argument for God's existence. He argues that necessities of logic and mathematics are determined by God's nature, but that it is events in God's mind - his imagination and choice - that account for necessary truths about concrete creatures.

God --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Possibility. --- Dieu --- Nécessité (Philosophie) --- Possibilité --- Proof, Ontological. --- Existence --- Preuve ontologique --- Nécessité (Philosophie) --- Possibilité --- Possibility --- Theism --- Philosophy --- Religion --- Atheism --- Misotheism --- Panentheism --- Logic --- Causation --- Chance --- Fate and fatalism --- Ontology --- Teleology --- Truth --- Ontological argument --- Proof, Ontological --- Theism.