Petitionary Prayer: A Philosophical Investigation

Content: Cover
 Petitionary Prayer: A Philosophical Investigation
 Copyright
 Preface
 Contents
 Introduction
 1: Challenges and Defenses
 1.1 The Question Clarified
 1.2 Answered Prayer
 1.3 Divine Providence
 1.4 Challenges
 1.5 Defenses of Petitionary Prayer
 2: Petitionary Prayer Characterized
 2.1 Types, Tokens, and Parts
 2.2 Answered Prayer
 2.3 Changing the Circumstances
 2.4 Pruss and Divine Omnirationality
 2.5 The Contrastive Reasons Account
 3: Divine Freedom Challenges
 3.1 Determinism
 3.2 Freedom
 3.3 Two Views of Divine Freedom
 3.4 A Strong Libertarian Challenge 3.5 Divine Action and Contrastive Explanation3.6 Another Challenge
 4: Epistemological Challenges
 4.1 Knowledge and Relevant Alternatives
 4.2 Skepticism, Sensitivity, and Safety
 4.3 God\'s Reasons
 5: Epistemological Defenses
 5.1 Defenses Based on Empirical Studies
 5.2 Defenses Based on Religious Teachings
 5.3 Specific Examples from Scriptural Traditions
 5.4 Divine Illumination
 5.5 Contextualism to the Rescue?
 6: Divine Goodness and Praying for Others
 6.1 Petitionary Prayer and the Problem of Evil
 6.2 Requests and Reasons 6.3 Basinger and Stump on Other-Person-Directed Petitionary Prayer6.4 Murray and Meyers on Other-Person-Directed Petitionary Prayer
 6.5 Taliaferro, Smith, and Yip on Other-Person-Directed Petitionary Prayer
 7: Responsibility-Based Defenses
 7.1 Responsibility in General
 7.2 Swinburne and the Howard-Snyders
 7.3 Choi on Love
 7.4 Responsibility and Luck
 8: Self-Directed Petitionary Prayer and New Defenses
 8.1 Giving in Response to Requests
 8.2 Idolatry and Depersonalization
 8.3 Stump\'s Defense
 8.4 A New Twist on Stump\'s Defense
 8.5 Luck Again and Case-By-Case Approaches 9: Practical Questions and the Nature of Faith9.1 Practical Defenses
 9.2 For What Should We Pray?
 9.3 Faith and Evidence
 9.4 Prayers of Thanksgiving
 10: Conclusion
 Bibliography
 Index