Mystery, God, and constructivism / Gordon Kaufman -- Science and religion : the immersion solution / Peter Lipton -- Religion and ontology / Simon Blackburn -- Scientific and theological realism / Alexander Bird -- Prescriptive realism / John Hare -- Religious language games / Graham Oppy and Nick Trakakis -- Theological anti-realism / Merold Westphal -- God's aseity / John Webster
Summary
This book draws together a distinguished group of philosophers and theologians to present new thinking on realism and religion. The religious realism/antirealism debate concerns the questions of God's independence from human beings, the nature of religious truth and our access to religious truths. Although both philosophers and theologians have written on these subjects, there has been little sustained investigation into these issues akin to that found in comparable areas of research such as ethics or the philosophy of science. The contributors present a variety of contrasting positions on key
