Philosophy of Religion : Selected Readings

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*=New to this Edition Preface: INTRODUCTION: Exploring the Philosophy of Religion PART ONE: THE NATURE OF RELIGION Daniel C. Dennett: An Evolutionary Account of Religion Buddha: Buddhist Nonrealism Roger Trigg: A Defense of Religious Realism D. Z. Phillips: The Meaning of Religious Beliefs Is Their Use PART TWO: RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE St. Teresa of Jesus: Religious Experiences William James: Religious Experience as Feelings Forming the Root of Religion William P. Alston: Religious Experience as Perception of God Wayne Proudfoot: Religious Experiences as Interpretative Accounts Michael Martin: Critique of Religious Experience Merold Westphal: A Phenomenological Account of Religious Experience Hakuun Yasutani Roshi: * Religious Experience Brings About Awakening PART THREE: FAITH AND REASON Thomas Aquinas: The Harmony of Reason and Revelation Blaise Pascal: The Wager William Clifford: The Ethics of Belief William James: The Will to Believe Soren Kierkegaard: Truth Is Subjectivity C. Stephen Evans: Critical Dialog in Philosophy of Religion PART FOUR: ARGUMENTS ABOUT GOD'S EXISTENCE St. Anselm: The Classical Ontological Argument Gaunilo: Critique of Anselm's Argument Alvin Plantinga: A Contemporary Modal Version of the Ontological Argument Thomas Aquinas: The Classical Cosmological Argument Bruce R. Reichenbach: The Cosmological Argument from Contingency William Lane Craig: The Kalam Cosmological Argument J. L. Mackie: Critique of the Cosmological Argument William Paley: The Analogical Teleological Argument David Hume: Critique of the Analogical Teleological Argument Robin Collins: * The Anthropic Teleological Argument C.S. Lewis: * A Moral Argument for God's Existence PART FIVE: KNOWING GOD WITHOUT ARGUMENTS Alvin Plantinga: The Reformed Objection to Natural Theology Robert Pargetter: Experience, Proper Basicality, and Belief in God William Hasker: The Case of the Intellectually Sophisticated Theist PART SIX: THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES John Hick: God's Necessary Existence Moses Maimonides: Negative Theology Thomas Aquinas: God Is Omnipotent George I. Mavrodes: Some Puzzles Concerning Omnipotence Nelson Pike: Divine Omniscience and Voluntary Action Boethius: God Is Timeless Nicholas Wolterstorff: God Is Everlasting The Upanishads: Atman Is Brahman PART SEVEN: DIVINE ACTION Paul Helm: Providence: Risky or Risk-Free? David Basinger: Middle Knowledge and Classical Christian Thought Robert Merrihew Adams: An Objection to Middle Knowledge J. R. Lucas: The Vulnerability of God John B. Cobb and David Ray Griffin: God Is Creative-Responsive Love PART EIGHT: THE PROBLEM OF EVIL David Hume: Evil Makes a Strong Case against God's Existence Gottfried Leibniz: Best of All Possible Worlds Theodicy J. L. Mackie: Evil and Omnipotence Alvin Plantinga: The Free Will Defense John Hick: Soul-Making Theodicy William Rowe: The Evidential Argument from Evil Marilyn McCord Adams: Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God Mohammed Ghaly: * Evil and Suffering in Islam * PART NINE: ATHEISM AND NONRELIGIOUS APPROACHES TO RELIGION Ludwig Feuerbach: * God Is a Projection of Human Nature Michael Martin: * Conflicts Between the Divine Attributes Paul Draper: * Pain, Pleasure, and the Evidence for Atheism Michael Ruse: * The Naturalist Challenge to Religion Michael Peterson: * The Encounter Between Atheistic Naturalism and Christian Theism PART TEN: MIRACLES Stephen T. Davis: Is it Possible to Know That Jesus Was Raised from the Dead? David Hume: The Evidence for Miracles Is Weak J. L. Mackie: Miracles and Testimony Richard Swinburne: Miracles and Historical Evidence PART ELEVEN: LIFE AFTER DEATH H. H. Price: The Soul Survives and Functions after Death Richard Swinburne: The Soul Needs a Brain to Continue to Function Linda Badham: Problems with Accounts of Life after Death John Hick: Resurrection of the Person Anonymous: The Buddhist View of Rebirth Sri Aurobindo: A Hindu View of Rebirth PART TWELVE: RELIGION AND SCIENCE Stephen Jay Gould: Two Separate Domains Richard Dawkins: Science Discredits Religion William Dembski: Reinstating Design within Science Phillip Kitcher: At the Mercy of Chance? Alvin Plantinga: * Naturalism and Science Are Incompatible John Polkinghorne: The Universe as Creation PART THIRTEEN: RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY Dalai Lama: Buddhism and Other Religions Paul Griffiths: The Universality and Uniqueness of Religious Doctrines Karl Rahner: Religious Inclusivism John Hick: Religious Pluralism PART FOURTEEN: RELIGION AND MORALITY Plato: * The Relation of Good to the Divine Will Alasdair MacIntyre: Which God Ought We to Obey? Thomas Aquinas: Ethics and Natural Law Mengzi (Mencius): * A Confucian View of Morality Jean-Paul Sartre: Ethics Without Religion Glossary:

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