Links and Sources for Information on Theology

 

Mr. Baker's Links:

 

The existence of God can be proven:

  

William Paley: The Argument from Design

     Really short explanation

     Wikipedia - Teleological Argument

 

St. Thomas Aquinas: The Cosmological Argument

     Description

     Really short explanation

 

St. Anselm: The Ontological Argument 

     Argument broken down

     Wikipedia

     Really short explanation

 

The existence of God cannot be proven:

 

     YouTube Lecture Video - Outlines why the existence of God can not be proven. Long, but thorough.

  

David Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

     Sparknotes summary

     Intertet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

     Wikipedia

  

Sigmund Freud: The Future of an Illusion

     Wikipedia

     PBS - Excerpt of Freud

     Interpretive Essay

  

J. L. Mackie: The Problem of Evil

     Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

     Argument explained

 

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Student Links: 

 

Mitch O'Connor

 

Philosophy and the Proof of God's Existence

Contains an introduction, quick summaries of the three traditonal proofs, the opinions of different philosophers, and a quick blurb on twentieth century's ideas. Useful as a starting point and/or a summary of Theological arguments for the existence of God. From here, one should look into whatever stands out as interesting to them.

 

Proofs for and Against the Existence of God

A list of "5" arguments for the existence of God. However, while it may seem that there are 2 new proofs, it's actually just that one of the usual 3 proofs is divided, making 3 proofs out of itself. You'll see what I mean. As the title suggests, the page also contains a few paragraphs about proofs against the existence of God. Overall, this link has nothing new and is just another starting point, but a good one at that.

 

The Cosmological Argument (Stanford)

A Wikipedia-esque page on the Cosmological Argument. It provides tons of information, but most of it is definitely biased. There is far more information on the objections of the Cosmological Argument, and all the information they give for it is done in a very 'mocking' tone. This link is recommended for anyone who wants to read from this viewpoint. However, remember to read about the Cosmological Argument from other viewpoints as well.

 

William Paley

Contains information on the Argument from Design/Teleology, a biography of William Paley, quotes from books on these subjects, and, best of all, links and book recommendations on William Paley and Theology in general. The actual content on this site isn't very useful to be honest; it appears to be copied and pasted from other sources. What makes this link useful is all of the other links at the bottom of it.

 

Notes on the Problem of Evil

An excellent page for information on the J.L Mackie and the Problem of Evil. It accurately, without bias, outlines what it is, objections against it, etc. without having too small or too large a wall of text. One can walk away feeling like they have a good grasp on the subject, as they are actually able to read it all. Definitely recommended.

 

TheologyEssayComplete.rtf

My essay!

 

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Daniel vanSickle:

 

Articles Concerning Theology

Contains many small articles on the relevance of God, and his power over us as humans. These are great for small points concerning gods authenticity and the way we as humans use god to answer our unanswered questions.

 

Theology: The Basics

This is a preview of a Book. In its first few pages it contains the very basics of Theology to help you understand its concepts.

 

Is There a God?

This cite offers candid, straight-forward reasons to believe in the existence of God...

Gives six elaborate reasons to believe God is really there.

 

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Leah Hanna:

 

http://www.thatreligiousstudieswebsite.com/Articles/Philosophy_of_religion/God/cosmological_main.html

Basically covers what some philosophers thought on the cosmological argument, as well as some issues with the argument itself.

 

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Harley McColl:

 

Theology:

A basic run through of Teology, Including quotes background and history.

 

Panthesim: 

Everything is god, explinations and quotes.

 

Agnosticism:

Agnostic references and resources, brief biographies of famous agnostics, quotations.

 

Atheism: 

A site about Athesim and what their beliefs or disbeilfs are about. Also George W Bush lays out the chirps on Atheists

 

Problem of Evil: the problem of evil is the problem of reconciling the existence of evil or suffering in the world with the existence of a God

 

Designer and Creator: This argument infers from the intelligent order and created beauty of the universe that there is an intelligent designer and creator

 

Cosmological Argument: The cosmological argument is a philosophical argument for the existence of God which explains that everything has a cause

 

Ontological Argument: 

 

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Kristie Travell

 

http://www.answers.com/topic/theology- 

Consists of a bunch of different deffinitions of theology.  Offers definitions and arguments to do with theology.

 

http://www3.sympatico.ca/harrytm/pantheism.html 

Defintiton and explination of Pantheism. Includes names of great philosophers who were pantheists, also includes a breif discription of good and evil.

 

http://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/cosmological-argument.htm 

Includes discription of the cosmological argument, and to why everything msut have a cause and since everything has a casue there must be a god.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHiBJVevndo 

a ten minute video clip on science, religion and atheism. Consists of the arguments that atheism consits of.

 

http://www.victorianweb.org/religion/agnos.html 

Includes a description of agnosticism and talks about the beliefs and who created agnosticism.