God, Knowledge, and the Good: Collected Papers in the Philosophy of Religion

by Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski

Overview

This volume collects the published articles in philosophy of religion by the pre-eminent philosopher Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski. The volume focuses on the major themes of her career, which is reflected in the sections of the volume: 1) Foreknowledge and Fatalism, 2) The Problem of Evil, 3) Death, Hell, and Resurrection, 4) God and Morality, 5) Omnisubjectivity, 6) The Rationality of Religious Belief, 7) Rational Religious Belief, Self-Trust, and Authority, and 8) God, Trinity, and the Metaphysics of Modality.

A companion volume to Epistemic Values, her collected articles in epistemology, this volume will be an important resource for scholars in the philosophy of religion, religious epistemology, and religious ethics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780197612385
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/03/2022
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 6.30(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski has contributed more than thirty-five years of books and papers in epistemology, philosophy of religion, virtue epistemology, and virtue ethics. Her most recent book, The Two Greatest Ideas, is an original narrative of the history of ideas. She taught for twenty years at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, and then for 21 years at the University of Oklahoma. She has had many endowed lectureships, including the Gifford Lectures, the Wilde Lectures, the Soochow Lectures. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and has had fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Templeton Foundation. She is Honorary Professor in the School of Divinity, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and Honorary Doctor in the Department of Theology, University of Uppsala, Sweden.

Table of Contents

Introduction

I. Foreknowledge and Fatalism
1. Divine Foreknowledge and Human Free will (1985)
2. Eternity and Fatalism (2011)
3. Divine Foreknowledge and the Metaphysics of Time (2014)

II. The Problem of Evil
4. An Agent-based Approach to the Problem of Evil (1996)
5. Weighing Evils: the C.S. Lewis Approach (co-author Joshua Seachris, 2007)
6. Good Persons, Good Aims, and the Problem of Evil (2017)

III. Death, Hell, and Resurrection
7. Religious Luck (1994)
8. Sleeping Beauty and the Afterlife (2005)

IV. God and Morality
9. The Virtues of God and the Foundations of Ethics (1998)
10. The Incarnation and Virtue Ethics (2002)

V. Omnisubjectivity
11. The Attribute of Omnisubjectivity (2013, 2016)

VI. The Rationality of Religious Belief
12. The Epistemology of Religion: The Need for Engagement (2004)
13. First person and Third Person Reasons and Religious Epistemology (2011)
14. Religious Diversity and Social Responsibility (2001)

VII. Rational Religious Belief, Self-Trust, and Authority
15. Epistemic Self-Trust and the Consensus Gentium Argument (2011)
16. A Modern Defense of Religious Authority (2016)

VIII. God, Trinity, and the Metaphysics of Modality
17. What if the Impossible Had Been Actual? (1990)
18. Christian Monotheism (1989)

Editorial Reviews

"Despite the fact that some of the essays in this volume date back as early as 1985, the philosophy still feels fresh. With her characteristic clarity and precision, Zagzebski guides her reader through familiar territory into entirely new insights in the philosophy of religion... [The] value of this volume comes from the contribution it makes to revealing unnoticed connections in Zagzebski's philosophy of religion. It provides good evidence that she is a deeply systematic philosopher." — Derek Christian Haderlie, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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