The White Robed Monks of St. Benedict

Index: Philosophy of Religion

In the course of life in general, the ministry in particular, we have the opportunity to encounter people with diverse belief systems — especially about religion and God. We offer the inquirer the following information as only that — information. The word god many today consider semantically empty because the graphic symbols g-o-d (sign/symbol configuration) combined represents something so radically different to each person who adds his or own nuances and connotations to the denotative definition of God. Our intention is only to provide information for the reader's own edification, reflection, and to engender more compassion for one's self and for other's as we each in our own way come to know and to know about that (possible) reality we humans have labeled: God.

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1.00000    Philosophy of God
1.00010   Contradictory Opinions
1.10000   Arguments about the Existence of God
1.11000   Existence of God as Self Evident
1.12000   Empirical Argument
1.12100   Religious Experience
1.12200   Spiritual Experience
1.13000   Pragmatic Argument
1.13100   Utilitarianism
1.13200   Objections to Atheism
1.14000   Cosmological Argument
1.14100   Causal Argument
1.14110   Objections to Cosmological Argument
1.15000   Teleological Argument
1.15010   Teleological Argument Explained
1.15020   Objections to Teleological Argument
1.16000   Ontological Argument
1.16010   Kant Refutation of Anselm
1.16020   Descartes's Argument
1.16100   Objections to Ontological Argument
1.17000   Moral Argument
1.17010   Kant's Argument
1.17020   Sorley's Argument
1.17030   Distinctions between Kant and Sorley
1.17100   Objections to Kant
1.18000   Concluding Remarks

1.20000   Relation of God to the World
1.20010   Overview
1.21000   Deism
1.21010   God outside the World
1.21020   God as First Cause
1.21100   Objections to Deism
1.21200   Concluding Remarks

1.22000   Pantheism
1.22010   Overview
1.22010   God is Nature
1.22020   God is Immanent
1.22030   God has Personality
1.22040   Pantheism in Gita
1.22100   Objections to Pantheism

1.23000   Panentheism
1.23001   Overview
1.23010   Hegel's Theory
1.23100   Objections to Panentheism

1.24000   Theism
1.24100   History of Theism
1.24110   Objections to Theism
1.24120   Concluding Remarks

1.24200   Theism in Vedanta
1.24210   Iswara
1.24211   Iswara is a Utilitarian Concept
1.24212   Iswara and Brahman
1.24213   Creator of Universe
1.24214   Iswara is Perfect
1.24215   Iswara is to be Adored
1.24220   Effect of Actions and their Results
1.24230   Relation of Jiva and Iswara
1.24240   Brahman is Iswara According to Ramanuja
1.24241   Nature of Brahman or Iswara
1.24242   Five Forms of Iswara
1.24243   Objections to Ramanuja

2.00000   Philosophical Presuppositions of Religion
2.00001   Introduction
2.10000   Hegelian Approach (Principal Caird)
2.10100   Essence of Religion
2.10200   Criticism of Caird's Rationalism
2.10300   Significance of Intuition

2.20000   Pragmatic Approach (William James)
2.20100   Utilitarianism
2.20200   Catholicity
2.21000   Limitations of Pragmatism

2.30000   Naturalistic Approach (J.H. Leuba)
2.30100   Utilitarianism
2.30110   Criticism of Leuba's Approach
2.30120   Limitations of Leuba's Approach

2.40000   Psycho-Analytic APproach (S. Freud)
2.40100   Analysis of Primitive APproach
2.40200   Father-Son Relationship
2.40300   Religion as Illusion
2.41000   Criticism of Freudian Approach

2.50000   Materialism
2.50010   What is Materialism?
2.50100   Greek Materialism
2.50200   Materialism in Europe
2.51000   Characteristics of Materialism
2.52000   Arguments in Support of Materialism
2.53000   Criticism of Materialism

2.60000   Naturalism
2.60010   Distinction from Materialism
2.60100   What is Naturalism?
2.60200   Positivism
2.60300   Physicalism
2.60400   Mechanism
2.61000   Criticism of Naturalism
2.62000   Conclusion

2.70000   Mechanism
2.71010   Descartes's View
2.71020   View of Spinoza
2.71030   View of Herbert Spencer
2.71040   Theory of Charles Darwin
2.72000   Criticism of Mechanism
2.72300   Conclusion

2.80000   Teleology
2.80010   Conflict between Mechanism and Teleology
2.80100   Consistency - Law of Nature w/ Teleology
2.81000   Contradictions in Mechanism and Teleology
2.81100   Conclusion
2.82000   Is There a Purpose in Creation?
2.82100   Conclusion
2.83000   Theology in History of Philosophy
2.84000   Conclusion

General Reference:
Thomistic Philosophy: God
Hegel: Philosophy and History as Theology
Skeptics' Dictionary: God

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