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Philosophy of Religion

Selected Readings
Fourth Edition
Edited by Michael Peterson, William Hasker, Bruce Reichenbach and David Basinger
ISBN13: 9780195393590ISBN10: 0195393597 Paperback, 656 pages
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Table of Contents

*=New to this edition
Each selection ends with Study Questions.
Each part ends with Suggested Readings.
Preface to the Fourth Edition
INTRODUCTION: Exploring the Philosophy of Religion
PART ONE: THE NATURE OF RELIGION
* An Evolutionary Account of Religion , Daniel C. Dennett
* Buddhist Nonrealism , The Buddha
A Defense of Religious Realism , Roger Trigg
The Meaning of Religious Beliefs Is in Their Use , D. Z. Phillips
PART TWO: RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
Religious Experiences , Saint Teresa of Jesus
Religious Experience as Feelings Forming the Root of Religion , William James
Religious Experience as Perception of God , William P. Alston
Religious Experiences as Interpretative Accounts , Wayne Proudfoot
Critique of Religious Experience , Michael Martin
A Phenomenological Account of Religious Experience , Merold Westphal
PART THREE: FAITH AND REASON
The Harmony of Reason and Revelation , Thomas Aquinas
The Wager , Blaise Pascal
The Ethics of Belief , William Clifford
The Will to Believe , William James
Truth Is Subjectivity , Søren Kierkegaard
Critical Dialog in Philosophy of Religion , C. Stephen Evans
PART FOUR: THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES
God's Necessary Existence , John Hick
Negative Theology , Moses Maimonides
God Is Omnipotent , Thomas Aquinas
Some Puzzles Concerning Omnipotence , George I. Mavrodes
Divine Omniscience and Voluntary Action , Nelson Pike
God Is Timeless , Boethius
God Is Everlasting , Nicholas Wolterstorff
Atman Is Brahman , The Upanishads
PART FIVE: ARGUMENTS ABOUT GOD'S EXISTENCE
The Classical Ontological Argument , Saint Anselm
Critique of Anselm's Argument , Gaunilo
A Contemporary Modal Version of the Ontological Argument , Alvin Plantinga
The Classical Cosmological Argument , Thomas Aquinas
The Cosmological Argument , Bruce R. Reichenbach
The Kalam Cosmological Argument , William Lane Craig
Critique of the Cosmological Argument , J. L. Mackie
The Analogical Teleological Argument , William Paley
* Critique of the Analogical Teleological Argument , David Hume
The Anthropic Teleological Argument , L. Stafford Betty with Bruce Cordell
Moral Arguments for God's Existence , Robert Merrihew Adams
PART SIX: KNOWING GOD WITHOUT ARGUMENTS
The Reformed Objection to Natural Theology , Alvin Plantinga
Experience, Proper Basicality, and Belief in God , Robert Pargetter
The Case of the Intellectually Sophisticated Theist , William Hasker
PART SEVEN: THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
Evil Makes a Strong Case against God's Existence , David Hume
* Best of All Possible Worlds Theodicy , Gottfried Leibniz
Evil and Omnipotence , J. L. Mackie
The Free Will Defense , Alvin Plantinga
Soul-Making Theodicy , John Hick
The Evidential Argument from Evil , William Rowe
Horrendous Evil and God , Marilyn McCord Adams
PART EIGHT: DIVINE ACTION
Providence--Risky or Risk-Free? , Paul Helm
Middle Knowledge and Classical Christian Thought , David Basinger
An Objection to Middle Knowledge , Robert Merrihew Adams
The Vulnerability of God , J. R. Lucas
God Is Creative-Responsive Love , John B. Cobb and David Ray Griffin
PART NINE: RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE
The Doctrine of Analogy , Thomas Aquinas
The Falsification Debate , Antony Flew and Basil Mitchell
Religious Language as Symbolic , Paul Tillich
Sexism and God-Talk , Rosemary Radford Ruether
Speaking Literally of God , William P. Alston
PART TEN: MIRACLES
* Is It Possible to Know That Jesus Was Raised from the Dead? , Stephen T. Davis
The Evidence for Miracles Is Weak , David Hume
Miracles and Testimony , J. L. Mackie
Miracles and Historical Evidence , Richard Swinburne
PART ELEVEN: LIFE AFTER DEATH
The Soul Survives and Functions after Death , H. H. Price
The Soul Needs a Brain to Continue to Function , Richard Swinburne
Problems with Accounts of Life after Death , Linda Badham
Resurrection of the Person , John Hick
* Buddhist View of Rebirth , Anonymous
Rebirth , Sri Aurobindo
PART TWELVE: RELIGION AND SCIENCE
Two Separate Domains , Stephen Jay Gould
Science Discredits Religion , Richard Dawkins
* Reinstating Design Within Science , William Dembski
* At the Mercy of Chance? , Phillip Kitcher
* The Universe as Creation , John Polkinghorne
* Reflections on the Intelligent Design Debate , John Lennox
PART THIRTEEN: RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY
Buddhism and Other Religions , Dalai Lama
The Uniqueness of Religious Doctrines , Paul J. Griffiths
Religious Inclusivism , Karl Rahner
Religious Pluralism , John Hick
PART FOURTEEN: RELIGION AND MORALITY
Which God Ought We to Obey? , Alasdair MacIntyre
Ethics and Natural Law , Thomas Aquinas
Ethics Without Religion , Jean-Paul Sartre
GLOSSARY
Philosophy of Religion