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Human and Divine
Peter van Inwagen, Dean Zimmerman
ISBN: 9780199277513
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Edition: illustrated edition
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The nature of persons is a perennial topic of debate in philosophy. This volume brings together metaphysical debates about the nature of human persons with related debates in philosophy of religion and theology. It explores idealist, dualist, and materialist views of persons, and discusses Christian conceptions of the value of embodiment.
The nature of persons is a perennial topic of debate in philosophy, currently enjoying something of a revival. In this volume for the first time metaphysical debates about the nature of human persons are brought together with related debates in philosophy of religion and theology. Fifteen specially written essays explore idealist, dualist, and materialist views of persons, discuss specifically Christian conceptions of the value of embodiment, and address four central topics in philosophical theology: incarnation, resurrection, original sin, and the trinity.
| ISBN | 0199277516 | | Pages | 392 | | ISBN13 | 9780199277513
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press | | Weight (grammes) | 573 | | Imprint | Clarendon Press | | Published in | Oxford | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Publication date | 25 Jan 2007 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | Library of Congress | BD | | Spine width (mm) | 23 | | DEWEY | 110 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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Three Introductory Questions; IDEALISM; 1. Idealism Vindicated; 2. The Self and Time; DUALISM; 3. Cartesian Dualism; 4. Materialism and Christian Belief; 5. From Mental/Physical Identity to Substance Dualism; 6. Ghosts Are Chilly; 7. 'Cartesian Psychophysics'; MATERIALISM; 8. A Materialist Ontology of the Human Person; 9. I Am Not An Animal!; EMBODIMENT AND THE VALUE OF PERSONS; 10. On the Intrinsic Value of Human Persons; 11. Persons and the Natural Order; PERSONHOOD IN CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE; 12. The Word Made Flesh: Dualism, Physicalism, and the Incarnation; 13. The Tree of Life: Agency and Immortality in a Metaphysics Inspired by Quantum Theory; 14. The Metaphysics of Original Sin; 15. Modes without Modalism
Pearsons: Human and Divine is well worth reading...Van Inwagen and Zimmerman have edited a timely book. Benedikt Paul Gocke The Philosophical Quarterly The metaphysical questions posed in this book promise to keep us occupied for some time... there's much here that deserves close study. A number of the contributions are strikingly adventurous. William R. Carter, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews This collection of essays...gives an excellent snapshot of contemporary analytic philosophy of religion...These papers are marked by considerable technical complexity. William Mander, Faith and Reason  Be the first to write a customer review
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