The Kalām Cosmological Argument: A Reassessment

• Main Author: Erasmus, Jacobus (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, 25
• Subjects: Religion-Philosophy.; Theology.; Islam-Doctrines.; Philology.; Philosophy of Religion.; Christian Theology.; Islamic Theology.; Classical Studies.

This book offers a discussion of the kalām cosmological argument, and presents a defence of a version of that argument after critically evaluating three of the most important versions of the argument. It argues that, since the versions of the kalām cosmological argument defended by Philoponus (c....

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Philoponus' Creatio Ex Nihilo Argument
• Chapter 3. Al-Ghazālī's Kalam Cosmological Argument
• Chapter 4. The Rise of Set Theory and Modern Cosmology
• Chapter 5. Craig's Kalam Cosmological Argument
• Chapter 6. Problems with the Infinity Argument
• Chapter 7. Philosophical Arguments for a Beginning
• Chapter 8. Can Cosmology Justify Belief in an Eternal Universe?
• Chapter 9. God as the Explanation of the Universe
• Chapter 10. Conclusion.