The work on my book is starting to take off. I hope to be finished with a rough draft by the end of the year. In the meantime, below is an outline of the chapters. The book is tentatively called, Faith and Philosophy, which is intended to be an introductory text on the arguments of natural theology. With that said, it will be a concise work (5-6 pages per chapter).
Section
One: Theistic Arguments
Chapter One: Relationship between Faith and Reason
Chapter Two: Aristotelian Cosmological Argument
Chapter Three: Kalam Cosmological Argument
Chapter Four: Leibnizian Cosmological Argument
Chapter Five: Aristotelian Teleological Argument
Chapter Six: Argument from Reason
Chapter Seven: Argument from Desire
Chapter Eight: Conceptualist Argument
Chapter Nine: Modal Ontological Argument
Chapter Ten: Modal Cosmological Argument
Chapter Eleven: Moral Argument
Chapter Twelve: Argument from Consciousness
Chapter Thirteen: Religious Experience
Chapter Fourteen: Resurrection of Jesus
Section Two: Atheistic Arguments
Chapter Fifteen: Argument from Divine Hiddenness
Chapter Sixteen: Argument from Suffering
Section Three: Conclusion
Chapter Seventeen: A Cumulative Case for God's Existence
Chapter One: Relationship between Faith and Reason
Chapter Two: Aristotelian Cosmological Argument
Chapter Three: Kalam Cosmological Argument
Chapter Four: Leibnizian Cosmological Argument
Chapter Five: Aristotelian Teleological Argument
Chapter Six: Argument from Reason
Chapter Seven: Argument from Desire
Chapter Eight: Conceptualist Argument
Chapter Nine: Modal Ontological Argument
Chapter Ten: Modal Cosmological Argument
Chapter Eleven: Moral Argument
Chapter Twelve: Argument from Consciousness
Chapter Thirteen: Religious Experience
Chapter Fourteen: Resurrection of Jesus
Section Two: Atheistic Arguments
Chapter Fifteen: Argument from Divine Hiddenness
Chapter Sixteen: Argument from Suffering
Section Three: Conclusion
Chapter Seventeen: A Cumulative Case for God's Existence
How on Earth will you restrict the treatment of Christ's resurrection and the argument from evil/pain/suffering to a mere 5 pages?
ReplyDeleteI'm willing to take on the challenge! Haha
ReplyDeleteAs for the argument from suffering, I'll mostly be talking about the logical version of the argument, as opposed to the evidential version. I think the former can be refuted in just a few pages.
I'm also somewhat surprised that none of the headings bear Aquinas' name. I'm extremely fond of the First and Third ways, myself, and since you're a Thomist I was curious as to the lack of reference to that particular saint.
ReplyDeleteI can understand why it might appear that that's the case. Thomas's second way I refer to as the Aristotelian cosmological argument (ACA) and his fifth way I refer to as the Aristotelian teleological argument (ATA). Since Thomas did not invent these arguments, but based them on the previous work of philosophers, such as Aristotle, I figured it would be more fitting to refer to these arguments with respect to their Aristotelian sources. Thomas also defends a version of the argument from desire. I'll be sure to cite Thomas in each of these chapters.
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