Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Diller, Jeanine. (Editor), Kasher, Asa. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Philosophy (General).; Philosophy.; Humanities.; Religion (General).; Philosophy of Religion.; Religious Studies.; Humanities, general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5219-1

Dedicated to exploring the enormous variety of ultimate realities at the center of the worlds great religions and philosophical traditions, this volume is a richly varied collection of essays on how we conceive this central notion, whether expressed as God, or as an ultimate reality of another kind...

Table of Contents:

• Forewords
• Introduction
• A. Conceptual Foundations
• 1. What is a model of ultimate reality?
• 2. Meta-theoretical questions about models of ultimate reality
• B. Specific Models of Ultimate Reality
• Overview of specific models; Ted Peters, James E. Taylor
• 1. Classical and neo-classical theism
• 2. Pantheism
• 3. Process theology
• 4. Open theism
• 5. Panentheism
• 6. Deism
• 7. Ground of being theology
• 8. Religious naturalism/naturalistic theism
• 9. Dualism
• 10. Polytheism
• 11. Communotheism
• 12. Via Negativa/apophatic tradition (against all models)
• 13. Skeptical or non-theistic views
• C. Diversity of Models of Ultimate Reality
• D. Practical Impacts of Models of Ultimate Reality
• References
• Index.