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The Virtue of Faith and Other Essays in Philosophical Theology This page intentionally left blank The Virtue of Faith and Other Essays in Philosophical Theology Robert Merrihew Adams New York Oxford OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1987 Oxford University Press Oxford New York Toronto Delhi Bombay Calcutta Madras Karachi Petaling Jaya Singapore Hong Kong Tokyo Nairobi Dar es Salaam Cape Town Melbourne Auckland and associated companies in Beirut Berlin Ibadan Nicosia Copyright © 1987 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc., 200 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Adams, Robert Merrihew. The virtue of faith and other essays in philosophical theology. 1. Religion—Philosophy. 2. Ethics. I. Title. BL51.A42 1987 200'. 1 86-8776 ISBN 0-19-504145-3 ISBN 0-19-504146-1 (pbk.) Since this page cannot accommodate all the copyright notices, the page that follows constitutes an extension of the copyright pages. 2 4 68 10 9 7 5 31 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper "The Virtue of Faith." From Faith and Philosophy, vol. 1, no. 1 (January 1984). Reprinted by permission of Faith and Philosophy. "Kierkegaard's Arguments Against Objective Reasoning in Religion." The Mo- nist, 60 (1976). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. "Must God Create the Best?" Philosophical Review, 81 (1972). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. "Existence, Self-interest, and the Problem of Evil." Nous, 13 (1979). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. "Middle Knowledge and the Problem of Evil." American Philosophical Quar- terly, 14 (1977). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. "A Modified Divine Command Theory of Ethical Wrongness." From Religion and Morality: A Collection of Essays, edited by Gene Outka and John P. Reeder, Jr. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday & Company, Inc. "Autonomy and Theological Ethics." Religious Studies, 15 (1979). Published by Cambridge University Press. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. "Divine Command Metaethics Modified Again." The Journal of Religious Eth- ics, vol. 7, no. 1 (Spring 1979), 66-79. Reprinted by permission of the pub- lisher. "Moral Arguments for Theistic Belief." Reprinted with permission from C. F. Delaney, ed., Rationality and Religious Belief. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979, pp. 116-40. "Saints." The Journal of Philosophy, 81 (1984). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. "Pure Love." The Journal of Religious Ethics, vol. 8, no. 1 (Spring 1980), 83- 99. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. "Has It Been Proved That All Real Existence Is Contingent?" American Philo- sophical Quarterly, 8 (1971). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. "Divine Necessity." The Journal of Philosophy, 80 (1983). Reprinted by per- mission of the publisher. "The Logical Structure of Anselm's Arguments." The Philosophical Review, 80 (1971). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. This page intentionally left blank For Marilyn This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments My teachers in the philosophy of religion, John Marsh and John Hick, and my Doktorvater, Nelson Pike, will recognize in some of the papers ideas on which I was working under their tutelage. I am grateful to them for their guidance and encouragement, and to Professor Hick in particular for the suggestion that led me to assemble this collection. It is also a pleasure to acknowledge the generous opportunities for re- search provided to me as a faculty member by the University of Michi- gan, Ann Arbor, and the University of California, Los Angeles. Fellow- ships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey, provided much-appre- ciated support during periods of leave, when some of the papers were written or reworked. Detailed acknowledgments are also contained in notes to the individual papers. I am grateful to Cynthia Read and Henry Krawitz of Oxford University Press for their editorial work on this volume, and to my research assistant, Marleen Rozemond, for much help in the final stages of its preparation.
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