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Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49107-5 — Taking God Seriously Brian Davies , Michael Ruse Index More Information Index agnosticism, 196 on good human being, 147 Alston, William, 76, 78 on Incarnation, 183 Perceiving God: The Epistemology of on knowledge of God, 201 Religious Experience, 75 on nature of the Word, 184 Ananias of Damascus, 4 Neoplatonism of, 56, 199 Anaxagoras, 64 on notion of a”word in the mind,” Anscombe, Elizabeth 175 on causality, 91 on reason leading to God, 24, 26 on law conception of ethics, 146 reflections on Jesus’s life, 166, 210 notion of believing, 16–17, 25 on religious virtue of faith, 24 reasons/causes dichotomy, 100 on source of all change, 48 “What Is It to Believe Someone?”, 16 on spatiotemporality of God, 56, 111 Anselm of Canterbury, Saint Summa theologiae, 26, 110 Christian theology of, 27, 31 teleological argument of, 64–65 on creative source of the universe, 48 on Trinity, 170 explanation of God’s existence, 23 argument from design, 65–67, 73, 84, 95 on faith, 201 Aristotle on God’s nature, 47, 59 account of morality, 139 ontological argument of, 31 belief in eternal universe, 30 on reason, 24 on cardinal virtues, 149, 153 on suffering of Jesus, 166 on causality, 86–87 anthropic principle, 70–71 evidence of design, 65 apophatic theology, 155, 188–89 on God’s existence, 42 Apostle’s Creed, 1 on good human being, 147 Aquinas, Thomas, Saint on nature, 70 Aristotle’sinfluence of, 31 notion of infinite regress, 15 on article of faith, 49 articles of faith, 24–26, 49 on cardinal virtues, 149, 153 atheism, 196 on causality, 62, 85–87, 89–90 Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Saint Christian theology of, 27, 31 Christian theology of, 27, 31 cosmological argument of, 62 Confessions, 31 on divine revelation, 201 on divine nature, 190 evidence of design, 65 just war theory, 125 explanation of God’s existence, 23, 35, 74, 84, on original sin, 165 112–13 on Trinity, 163 Fifth Way, 85, 87–88 view of the Bible, 12 on God the Holy Spirit, 177 Ayer, A. J., 43–44, 139 on God’s nature, 35, 47, 56–57, 190 on God’s omnipotence, 110–11 Bacon, Francis, 65 on God’s teaching, 25 Baillie, John, Our Knowledge of God, 75 219 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49107-5 — Taking God Seriously Brian Davies , Michael Ruse Index More Information 220 INDEX Barr, James, 52 Darwin, Charles Biblical Faith and Natural Theology, 50 on conscience, 133 Barth, Karl, 34, 45, 47–48, 50–51, 187 Descent of Man, 128, 130 belief explanation of nature of the organic world, badness of, 18 68 based on evidence, 19 on God’s existence, 69 based on sensory experience, 20 on morality, 103 in God, 13, 18, 24 on natural selection, 68–69 reason and, 15, 18 On the Origin of Species, 9, 68, 199 without evidence, 20, 22 on struggles for existence, 68 believing the person, 16–18 theory of evolution of, 84, 128, 133, 192 Bible, 50, 52, 124, 131, 198 view of Christianity, 128 Big Bang theory, 39 Darwinian ethics, 129–31, 137 body–mind problem, 188 Darwinian metaethics, 132–34 Booth, William, 137 Darwinism, 68 Boyle, Robert, 65 vs. Christianity, 136 Braine, David, 42 critics of, 206 idea of progress in, 96, 98 Calvin, John, 49 original sin and, 102 Calvinist beliefs, 100 treatment of human beings, 101, 168, 201 cardinal virtues, 149, 153 David Copperfield (character), 7–9 Catechism of the Catholic Church, 169 Davies, Brian, 63, 187, 193 causality, 86, 89 The Wit and Wisdom of Thomas Aquinas, causality/explanation, 86 29 Chalcedon, Council of, 25, 170, 181–84 Dawkins, Richard Christian pacifism, 125 critique of theistic personalism, 54 Christian Platonism, 126 on Darwinism, 69, 126 Christianity dismissal of the ontological argument, 192 absence of Messiah in, 162 favor of progress, 98 belief in the afterlife, 147 The God Delusion, 1, 6 contradictions of, 190 on Lamarckism, 104 as a cultural phenomenon, 197 on question of God, 9 vs. Darwinism, 136 on religion, 10 ethics, 124, 127, 137 theism of, 200 faith and, 1, 31, 51, 199 view of original sin, 167 future of, 199 Degollado, Marcial Maciel, 161 on human action, 152 deism, 198 in the Middle Ages, 198 Dennett, Daniel, 1, 6, 10, 54, 101 natural theology as part of, 31–32 Descartes, René origin of, 30 definition of God, 60 problem of pluralism, 203 Meditations on First Philosophy, 17, 60, 73 reason and, 31–32, 199 natural theology of, 27, 42 Reformation and, 32 on power of God, 104 treatment of human beings, 168 proof of God’s existence, 17, 73 classical theism, 54, 113 scientific investigation of living organisms, 84 vs. theistic personalism, 105 view of knowledge, 17 Clifford, W. K., 19 design, in teleology and in science, 65 Constantinople, First Council of, 170 design argument, 65, 69 cosmological arguments for God, 62 comments on, 81 comments on, 90–95 examples of, 80 famous examples of, 88–90 for inorganic world, 65, 70–72 Kalām argument, 88–91 for organic world, 65, 70 two kinds of, 88 Dickens, Charles Coyne, Jerry, 2, 12, 101 Bleak House, 136 Faith vs. Fact, 9 David Copperfield, 7–8, 203 Craig, William Lane, 42, 89–90 Disraeli, Benjamin, 137 credulity, principle of, 75, 77 divine nature, 185 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49107-5 — Taking God Seriously Brian Davies , Michael Ruse Index More Information INDEX 221 docetism, 162, 164, 205 embracement of, 4–5 Docetism–Ebionitism debate, 164–65 as experience, 7–8, 202–3 Donne, John, 130 fading, 6 Dorothea (character), 8–9 forms of, 201 doubts, 15 genuine, 202 Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sherlock Holmes stories, 21 glorification of, 2 Duns Scotus, John (Eriugena), 27, 42, 155 happiness and, 197 duty, 145, 147 in divine revelation, 201–2 knowledge vs., 13 Ebionitism, 162–63, 206 legitimacy of, 30 efficient causality, 62, 85 love vs., 9 electromagnetism, 71 as matter of belief, 19 Eliot, George, 128 naturalistic explanations of, 11–12 Elizabethan Compromise, 32 nature of, 8–9, 188 Elizabethan Settlement, 187 nonbeliever’s perception of, 6–7, 11 emotivism, 132 reason and, 2–3, 24, 30, 33–35, 187, 201 empirical claims, vs. religious claims, 188 religious virtue of, 24, 26, 188 eschatological unity, 157 science vs., 9, 11–12 ethics. See also substantive ethics studies of, 1 emotive theory of, 139 Feser, Edward, 42, 85 evolutionary, 132 first cause law conception of, 146 problem of, 62 science and, 40 First Vatican Council, 23, 51 Euthyphro problem, 126 flesh, 41 evangelical literalism, 198 Franklin, Benjamin, 198 evidence free will, 99–101 belief and, 19 definition of, 21 Gaunilo of Marmoutiers, 61 demand for, 22 Geach, Peter, 84 evaluation of, 21–22 God reason and, 19, 26 ability to change, 170–74 in Sherlock Holmes stories, 21–22 Anselm on, 47, 59 sufficient and insufficient, 19–20 anthropomorphic approach to, 46, 200 evil. See also problem of evil Aquinas’s view of, 47, 56–57 Christian view of, 99 assertions about, 44 creation of, 122 attributes of, 168–69 existence of, 114 beatific vision of, 78 God and, 115, 194 as being, 109 good vs., 114–16, 122 biblical depiction of, 54–55, 57, 111–12, 119, moral, 99, 102 178–79 naturally occurring, 122 Buddhist, 156 problem of, 99, 105 Cartesian view of, 60 evolution, progressive nature of, 132 causal arguments for, 79–95 existence Christian view of, 48, 110, 156, 159, 190 cause and, 90–91, 94 of classical theism, 55, 57, 113 vs. essence, 94 coming forth in, 174–75 explanations, 107 concept of himself, 175 external world, proof of, 14–15 as creator of the universe, 107, 121–22, 168, 181 creatures and, 174, 179–80 faith definitions of, 54, 107 arguments in favor of, 187 divine nature and, 185 attractions of, 11 doctrine of the Trinity and, 171, 176 boundary of, 19 essence of, 62–63 Christian, 1, 188, 201–3 evil and, 194 comparison to falling in love, 187–203 experience of, 76, 78–79, 191–92 criticism of, 12 as explanation, 107–8 danger of, 2 God’s nature vs., 109, 173 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49107-5 — Taking God Seriously Brian Davies , Michael Ruse Index More Information 222 INDEX God (cont.) ontological proof of, 73–74 goodness of, 118–21, 123, 153 philosophical arguments for, 23, 42, 45, 95 human ignorance of, 46 problem of, 1–2 image of, 44 self-evident, 73–75 as immaterial cause, 108 theist view of, 44 incomprehensibility of, 46–47, 123, 200 Gödel, Kurt, 26 vs. individual, 46–47 good infinite nature of, 34, 157 meaning of, 117, 148 Jesus and, 164 notion of the highest, 142 Jewish, 156 good human being, 148–49 Kantian view of, 61 Good Samaritan parable, 124 knowledge of, 50, 52, 111–12, 177 goodness love of, 121, 177–78 of creatures, 120 meaningfulness of, 43–44 criteria for, 149 as moral agent, 116–18, 193–94 forms of, 120 of natural theology, 55 meaning of, 117 necessity of, 63 gravity, 71 nontemporal nature of, 111, 123 Greek philosophy, 30 omnipotency of, 110–11, 116, 123, 126 Grisez, Germain, 42 pagan, 156 Gunton, Colin, 45–46, 48 as person, 111–12, 189 power of, 104, 177 Haldane, J. B. S., 196 radical otherness of, 47 Hamilton, Lewis, 105 reason and, 34, 50 Harris, Sam, 54 righteousness of, 166 The End of Faith, 1 as spatiotemporal individual, 56, 191 Hauerwas, Stanley, 125 teaching of, 25–26 Heidegger, Martin, 39 theistic idea of, 55, 77–78 Hick, John, 6, 8, 204 timeliness of, 90 definition of God, 157 true statements about, 169 embracement of faith, 4–5 unknowable, 34, 155 on eschatological unity, 157–58 violence and, 125 The Myth of God Incarnate, 182 what God is not, 108–11 on nature of God, 34 will of, 111–12,