CCEA A2 8 Themes in the Philosophy of Religion overview quiz quiz

A posteriori, reasoning from experience of the world

A priori, reasoning from the concept of God alone

An argument from religious experience

An argument from the order of nature

As the unmoved mover

As the ground of being

As that than which nothing greater can be conceived

As a transgression of a law of nature

That existence is not a predicate

That the same reasoning would prove the most perfect island exists

That miracles cancel each other out

That the soul cannot survive the body

That existence is not a predicate that adds to a concept

That God is the most perfect island

That the laws of nature are unalterable

That the soul is the form of the body

That a statement is meaningful only if analytic or empirically verifiable

That all religious statements are simply false

That miracles violate the laws of nature

That the soul is immortal

Paul Tillich

Antony Flew

Thomas Aquinas

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Univocally, in exactly the same sense as to creatures

Equivocally, in a totally unrelated sense

Analogically, by a real proportion or relation

Symbolically, by participating in being-itself

Paul Tillich

A. J. Ayer

David Hume

Anselm

As an event outside the natural order done by God

As a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity

As a symbol of being-itself

As a near-death experience

That miracles are symbolic rather than literal

That the soul cannot survive death

That existence is not a predicate

That uniform experience of natural law always outweighs the testimony for a miracle

Richard Swinburne

Antony Flew

A. J. Ayer

Garrett Hardin

That the soul is the form of the body and cannot exist without it

That the person is a purely physical unity

That the soul is distinct from the body and can exist without it

That there is no soul at all

The reincarnation of the soul into new lives

The resurrection of the whole person by God

The pre-existence of the soul in the world of Forms

The denial of any life after death

The interaction of an immaterial soul with the body

Whether the re-created person is the same person

Whether existence is a predicate

Whether the laws of nature can be broken

empirically verifiable by science

a transgression of natural law

an analytic truth

a language game within a form of life