God & The Modern World (Marquette Studies in Philosophy)

God & the Modern World......Page 2
God & the Modern World by Julia Watkin......Page 4
© 2005 Marquette University Press......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Dedication tilegnet Søren Kierkegaard......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 9
God and the Modern World Introduction......Page 10
(a) The Grosbøll Affair......Page 12
(b) Clearing the Ground......Page 14
(c) Two Modern Misconceptions......Page 16
(d) God as a Metaphysical Concept......Page 22
(e) Descriptions and Pictures of God......Page 31
(a) Indicators of an Actual Divine Transcendence?......Page 36
(b) Some Conceptual Difficulties Concerning Descriptions of the Self......Page 40
(c) On Manifestations of an Actually Transcendent Divinity......Page 44
(d) Forms in which Divinity Manifests Itself......Page 47
(e) Something about Prayer......Page 51
(a) The Definition of a Miracle......Page 62
(b) Hume’s Essay “On Miracles”......Page 65
(c) Hume and the Violated Laws of Nature......Page 67
(d) Miracles and Modern Objections......Page 70
(e) Epilogue On the Status of the Divine Miracle-Worker......Page 75
(a) Creation Accounts in the Book of Genesis......Page 80
(b) Darwin’s Theory of Evolution......Page 85
(c) Modern Evolution Theory......Page 90
(d) Concepts of Evolution......Page 95
(e) An Unintended Red Herring......Page 100
Conclusion......Page 103
Notes......Page 108
Bibliography......Page 114
Index......Page 126