Beyond Faith and Rationality: Essays on Logic, Religion and Philosophy: 34 (Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, 34)

This volume deals with the relation between faith and reason, and brings the latest developments of modern logic into the scene. Faith and rationality are two perennial key concepts in the history of ideas. Philosophers and theologians have struggled to bring into harmony these otherwise conflicting concepts. Despite the diversity of approaches about what rationality effectively means, logic remains the cannon of objective and rational thought. The chapters in this volume analyze several issues pertaining to the philosophy of religion and philosophical theology from the perspective of their relation to logic and the benefit they can derive from the use of modern logic tools. The book is divided into five parts: (I) Introduction, (II) Analytic Philosophy of Religion, (III) Logical Philosophy of Religion, (IV) Computational Philosophy and Religion and (V) Logic, Language and Religion. This text appeals to students and researchers in the field.           Review “This book represents an exciting reference for logical contemplation on religious beliefs, yet with a strong focus on Judeo- Christian traditions.” (Huỳnh Cao Nhựt Quang, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 47 (4), December, 2021) From the Back Cover This volume deals with the relation between faith and reason, and brings the latest developments of modern logic into the scene. Faith and rationality are two perennial key concepts in the history of ideas. Philosophers and theologians have struggled to bring into harmony these otherwise conflicting concepts. Despite the diversity of approaches about what rationality effectively means, logic remains the cannon of objective and rational thought. The chapters in this volume analyze several issues pertaining to the philosophy of religion and philosophical theology from the perspective of their relation to logic and the benefit they can derive from the use of modern logic tools. The book is divided into five parts: (I) Introduction, (II) Analytic Philosophy of Religion, (III) Logical Philosophy of Religion, (IV) Computational Philosophy and Religion and (V) Logic, Language and Religion. This text appeals to students and researchers in the field. About the Author Ricardo Sousa Silvestre holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Montreal. He has been Visiting Scholar at the Universities of Oxford (UK), Notre Dame (USA) and Québec (Canada). He is the author of several papers on Logic and Philosophy of Religion and guest-editor of a couple of special issues on the field of Logic and Religion, namely  the special issues on the Concept of God (2019) and Formal Approaches to the Ontological Argument (2018) of the Journal of Applied Logics (College Publications), the special issue on Logic and Philosophy of Religion (2017) of Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions (Springer) and the special issue on Logic and Religion (2017) of Logica Universalis (Springer). He is one of the creators and main organizers of the World Congress on Logic and Religion series. He is presently Associate Professor at Federal University of Campina Grande (Brazil). Benedikt Paul Göcke is a Research Fellow at the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion and a Member of the Faculty of Theology at University of Oxford.  He is also a Member of Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. Göcke is author of:   A Theory of the Absolute  (Macmillan, 2014),   Alles in Gott? (Friedrich Pustet, 2012) and editor of  After Physicalism (Notre Dame, 2012). He has published articles in journals such as  The International Journal for Philosophy of Religion,  Zygon,  Sophia,  The European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, and Theologie und Philosophie, among others. Jean-Yves Beziau has a Ph.D. in Mathematics (University of Paris 7) and a Ph.D. in Philosophy (University of São Paulo, Brazil). He has done research in France, Brazil, Poland, California (UCLA, Stanford, UCSD) and Switzerlan