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Extract 1: John Hick on soul-making
Hick on soul-making In this extract from Philosophy of Religion (1963) pages 44–46 John Hick adopts a negative theodicy by arguing…
Read MoreExtract 2: John Hare – The Moral Argument
The Moral Gap by John E. Hare (pages 91-2) According to Kant, Spinoza will constantly experience the lack of fit between what…
Read MoreExtract 1: JL Mackie’s objections to Kant’s Moral Argument
JL Mackie – The Miracle of Theism (pages 110-115) But in whichever of these ways we interpret his conclusion, Kant’s argument…
Read MoreExtract : Marc Fonda’s notes on James
Mark Fonda has provided this note-form version of William James’ Varieties of Religious Experience. You can scan down and find the…
Read MoreExtract 2: Richard Swinburne on Miracles
For the Possibility of Miracles Richard Swinburne I shall take the question in two parts. I shall enquire first whether…
Read MoreExtract 1: David Hume Miracles
Though experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact; it must be acknowledged, that this guide is…
Read MoreExtract 4: Hick Parable of the Celestial City
John Hick’s Parable of the Celestial City The parable points to the possibility of eschatological verification, whereby in the next life…
Read MoreExtract 3: Hare and Mitchell – paranoid lunatic and the stranger parables
source RM Hare – The Parable of the Paranoid Lunatic A certain lunatic is convinced that all dons want to murder…
Read MoreExtract 1: Flew and Parable of the Garden
source Parable of the Garden First told by John Wisdom and then adapted by Anthony Flew. Let us begin with a…
Read MoreExtract 6:Church of England reports on genetic engineering
Click on the link below for a full survey of current and past reports, with further links to documents: http://www.churchofengland.org/our-views/medical-ethics-health-social-care-policy/hfea.aspx
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