The Problem of God: A Short Introduction - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0675088879 ISBN 13: 9780675088879

Synopsis

Stresses the problem of God as a logical and philosophical problem. This book offers a critically analytic perspective in the Naturalistic-Humanistic tradition. It features an issues or problems approach and is set in a historical context with quotations from Greek philosophy, the Church Fathers, the Medieval period, and from philosophers.

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About the Author

Peter A. Angeles received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, New York. He has taught philosophy at the University of Western Ontario, Canada; Albert Schweitzer College, Switzerland; the University of California at Santa Barbara; and in Arizona taught at Northern Arizona University, Yavapai College, Mesa College, Scottsdale College, and the University of Phoenix. He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Santa Barbara City College, where he taught and was Chairperson of the Department of Philosophy from 1970 to his early retirement in 1990. He is the author of an Introduction to Sentential Logic; the Possible Dream: Toward Understanding the Black Experience; The Problem of God and Critiques of God (ed.); Dictionary of Christian Theology; When Blind eyes Pierce the Darkness; and numerous articles in scholarly journals.

He is currently living in Santa Barbara, California and writing a Dictionary of World Religions and a Dictionary of Philosophic Concepts for College Students and another series of 52 half-hour weekly children's stories for his radio show The Children's Story Time; and is writing and producing more of his one-act plays.

Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0675088879
• ISBN 13: 9780675088879
• Binding: Paperback