Believing in God: A Philosophical Essay

Clark (1988)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

This book examines what it means to believe in God. It does not discuss arguments for the existence of God but seeks to understand some of the ways the word ’God’ and related words function in the lives of believers. The approach is thus related to Wittgenstein’s. Constant themes are that ’God’ is not the name of a person and that the concept of ’absence’ is central in understanding language about God. Topics covered are: differences between language about God and language about persons; trusting, loving and fearing God; getting to heaven; prayer; miracles; the activity and creativity of God

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

ISBN(s)

0567094987   056708535X
View all bargains

Buy this book

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 91,435

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Abraham, the faithless moral superhero.Howard J. Curzer - 2007 - Philosophy and Literature 31 (2):344-361.
God Laughs: And Other Surprising Things You Never Knew About Him.Charles Billingsley - 2009 - Regal Books. Edited by Elmer L. Towns.
God Laughs: And Other Surprising Things You Never Knew About Him.Elmer L. Towns - 2009 - Regal Books. Edited by Charles Billingsley.
Who is God?Carolyn Nystrom - 1993 - Chicago: Moody Press. Edited by Eira Reeves.
What is God like?Marie-Agnès Gaudrat - 1992 - Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press. Edited by Ulises Wensell.
The God Whereof We Speak.John F. Owens - 2004 - American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 78 (1):83-97.
The fidelity of betrayal: towards a church beyond belief.Peter Rollins - 2008 - Brewster, Mass.: Paraclete Press.
Beyond theism: a grammar of God-language.Theodore W. Jennings - 1985 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Cosmic Companionship: The Place of God in the Moral Reasoning of Martin Luther King, Jr.Thomas J. S. Mikelson - 1990 - Journal of Religious Ethics 18 (2):1-14.
The rationality of belief in God.George I. Mavrodes - 1970 - Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,: Prentice-Hall.
Divine Hiddenness: Would More Miracles Solve the Problem?Jake H. O'Connell - 2013 - Heythrop Journal 54 (2):261-267.
Why Not God the Mother?Andrew J. Dell’Olio - 1998 - Faith and Philosophy 15 (2):193-209.
The Concept of God.Thomas V. Morris (ed.) - 1987 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Thoughts about God.Brian Davies - 2005 - Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 79:21-27.
On Which 'God' Should Be the Target of a 'Proof of God's Existence'.David Twetten - 2006 - The Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 8:75-80.

Analytics

Added to PP
2012-06-16

Downloads
16 (#892,354)

6 months
2 (#1,221,975)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references