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    How to prove the existence of God: an argument for conjoined panentheism.Elizabeth D. Burns - 2019 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion (1):5-21.
    This article offers an argument for a form of panentheism in which the divine is conceived as both ‘God the World’ and ‘God the Good’. ‘God the World’ captures the notion that the totality of everything which exists is ‘in’ God, while acknowledging that, given evil and suffering, not everything is ‘of’ God. ‘God the Good’ encompasses the idea that God is also the universal concept of Goodness, akin to Plato’s Form of the Good as developed by Iris Murdoch, which (...)
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    Anne Conway's philosophy of religion.Elizabeth Burns - 2021 - Think 20 (59):143-155.
    Anne Conway produced only one short treatise – The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy – but addressed key problems in the philosophy of religion which are still much discussed today. The most significant of these are the problem of religious diversity and the problem of evil. Although the sources of her ideas may be found in the Kabbalah of Isaac Luria and the work of the Cambridge Platonists and the Quaker George Keith, among others, she offers her (...)
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  3. Classical and revisionary theism on the divine as personal: a rapprochement?Elizabeth Burns - 2015 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 78 (2):151-165.
    To claim that the divine is a person or personal is, according to Swinburne, ‘the most elementary claim of theism’. I argue that, whether the classical theist’s concept of the divine as a person or personal is construed as an analogy or a metaphor, or a combination of the two, analysis necessitates qualification of that concept such that any differences between the classical theist’s concept of the divine as a person or personal and revisionary interpretations of that concept are merely (...)
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  4. The ontological argument : patching Plantinga's ontological argument by making the Murdoch move.Elizabeth D. Burns - 2018 - In Jerry L. Walls Trent Dougherty (ed.), Two Dozen (or so) Arguments for God: The Plantinga Project. New York, New York: Oxford University Press.
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  5. ‘Ontological’ arguments from experience: Daniel A. Dombrowski, Iris Murdoch, and the nature of divine reality.Elizabeth D. Burns - 2013 - Religious Studies 49 (4):459-480.
    Dombrowski and Murdoch offer versions of the ontological argument which aim to avoid two types of objection – those concerned with the nature of the divine, and those concerned with the move from an abstract concept to a mind-independent reality. For both, the nature of the concept of God/Good entails its instantiation, and both supply a supporting argument from experience. It is only Murdoch who successfully negotiates the transition from an abstract concept to the instantiation of that concept, however, and (...)
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  6. Iris Murdoch and the nature of good.Elizabeth Burns - 1997 - Religious Studies 33 (3):303-313.
    Iris Murdoch's concept of Good is a central feature of her moral theory; in Murdoch's thought, attention to the Good is the primary means of improving our moral conduct. Her view has been criticised on the grounds that the Good is irrelevant to life in this world (Don Cupitt), that the notion of a transcendent, single object of attention is incoherent (Stewart Sutherland), and that we can only understand what goodness is if we see it as an attribute of a (...)
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  7. Where the conflict really lies: Plantinga, the challenge of evil, and religious naturalism.Elizabeth D. Burns - 2014 - Philosophia Reformata 79 (1):66-82.
    In this paper I argue that, although Alvin Plantinga’s Felix Culpa theodicy appears on only two pages of his recent book Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion and Naturalism (2011) (i.e. 58-59), it is of pivotal importance for the book as a whole. Plantinga argues that there is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and monotheism, and that there is superficial concord but deep conflict between science and naturalism. I contend that the weakness of the Felix Culpa theodicy (...)
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  8. Images of Reality: Iris Murdoch's Five Ways From Art to Religion.Elizabeth Burns - 2015 - Religions 6 (3):875-890.
    Art plays a significant role in Iris Murdoch’s moral philosophy, a major part of which may be interpreted as a proposal for the revision of religious belief. In this paper, I identify within Murdoch’s philosophical writings five distinct but related ways in which great art can assist moral/religious belief and practice: art can reveal to us “the world as we were never able so clearly to see it before”; this revelatory capacity provides us with evidence for the existence of the (...)
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  9. Essay writing and exam preparation.Elizabeth Burns & Michael Lacewing - 2004 - In Elizabeth Burns & Stephen Law (eds.), Philosophy for AS and A2. New York: Routledge.
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    Is There a Distinctively Feminist Philosophy of Religion?Elizabeth D. Burns - 2012 - Philosophy Compass 7 (6):422-435.
    Feminist philosophers of religion such as Grace Jantzen and Pamela Sue Anderson have endeavoured, firstly, to identify masculine bias in the concepts of God found in the scriptures of the world’s religions and in the philosophical writings in which religious beliefs are assessed and proposed and, secondly, to transform the philosophy of religion, and thereby the lives of women, by recommending new or expanded epistemologies and using these to revision a concept of the divine which will inspire both women and (...)
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    Michael Martin on divine omniscience (2).Elizabeth Burns - 2005 - Think 4 (10):75-78.
    A response to the preceding article by Tom Wanchick.
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    Continental Philosophy of Religion.Elizabeth Burns - 2018 - Cambridge University Press.
    This Element presents key features from the writings on religion of twelve philosophers working in or influenced by the continental tradition. It argues for a hybrid methodology which enables transformational religious responses to the problems associated with human existence to be supported both by reasoned argument and by revelation, narrative philosophy, and experiential verification.
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  13. Must theists believe in a personal God?Elizabeth Burns - 2009 - Think 8 (23):77-86.
    The claim that God is a person or personal is, perhaps, one of the most fundamental claims which religious believers make about God. In Hinduism, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva are represented in person-like form. In the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament God walks in the Garden of Eden , experiences emotions , and converses with human beings . In the New Testament, God communicates with his people, usually by means of angels or visions , and retains the ability to speak audibly, as (...)
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  14. Philosophy for AS and A2.Elizabeth Burns & Stephen Law (eds.) - 2004 - New York: Routledge.
    Philosophy for AS and A2 is the definitive textbook for students of Advanced Subsidiary or Advanced Level philosophy courses, structured directly around the specification of the AQA. Following a lively foreword by Nigel Warburton, author of Philosophy: The Basics, a team of experienced teachers devote a chapter each to the six themes covered by the syllabus: Each of the chapters include helpful student-friendly features. a list of key concepts, to introduce students to the topic bite-size sections corresponding to the syllabus (...)
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  15. Philosophy of religion (unit 2).Elizabeth Burns - 2004 - In Elizabeth Burns & Stephen Law (eds.), Philosophy for AS and A2. New York: Routledge.
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    Cosmological Arguments.Elizabeth Burns - 2019 - The Philosophers' Magazine 86:87-92.
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  17. Julian Baggini: Philosophy: Key Themes and Philosophy: Key Texts. [REVIEW]Elizabeth Burns - 2004 - Think 2 (6):103-106.
  18. Daniel Garber: What Happens After Pascal's Wager: Living Faith and Rational Belief. [REVIEW]Elizabeth Burns - 2011 - Philosophical Quarterly 61 (242):218-220.
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    Pamela Sue Anderson: Re-visioning gender in philosophy of religion: reason, love and epistemic locatedness: Ashgate, Farnham, UK, 2012, xiv + 249, $39.95. [REVIEW]Elizabeth D. Burns - 2015 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 77 (2):187-189.
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    Anne Rowe (ed): Iris Murdoch: A re-assessment. [REVIEW]Elizabeth Burns - 2007 - Heythrop Journal 48 (5):847–849.
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    (1 other version)Mark Johnston: Saving God: Religion After Idolatry. [REVIEW]Elizabeth Burns - 2009 - The Philosophers' Magazine 47 (47):110-111.
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    Brian Davies: The Reality of God and the Problem of Evil. [REVIEW]Elizabeth Burns - 2008 - Religious Studies 44 (1):118-123.
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    Daniel A. Dombrowski: Rethinking the Ontological Argument: A Neoclassical Theistic Response. [REVIEW]Elizabeth Burns - 2009 - Heythrop Journal 50 (4):719-721.
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    Heather Widdows: The Moral Vision of Iris Murdoch. [REVIEW]Elizabeth Burns - 2007 - Heythrop Journal 48 (5):846–847.
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    T. W. Bartel (ed): Comparative theology: Essays for Keith ward. [REVIEW]Elizabeth Burns - 2004 - Religious Studies 40 (4):511-515.
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    (1 other version)Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr. [REVIEW]Elizabeth Burns - 2008 - Isis 99:609-610.
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