Table of Contents
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- Preface. Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion.
- PART I: TRADITIONAL ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD.
- The Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God.
- St. Thomas Aquinas: "The Five Ways."
- Samuel Clarke: "The Argument from Contingency."
- Paul Edwards: "A Critique of the Cosmological Argument."
- William Rowe: "An Examination of the Cosmological Argument."
- William Lane Craig: "The Kalam Cosmological Argument."
- Paul Draper: "A Critique of the Kalam Cosmological Argument."
- William Lane Craig: "Scientific Confirmation of the Cosmological Argument."
- The Teleological Argument for the Existence of God.
- William Paley: "The Watch and the Watchmaker."
- David Hume: "A Critique of the Design Argument."
- Richard Swinburne: "The Argument from Design."
- The Ontological Argument.
- Anselm and Gaunilo: "The Ontological Argument."
- Kant: "Critique of the Ontological Argument."
- Alvin Plantinga: "The Ontological Argument."
- William Rowe: "The Modal Version of the Ontological Argument."
- J.N. Findlay: "God's Existence is Impossible."
- PART II: ON THE VALIDITY OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE.
- Selection of Mystic Experiences.
- William James: "The Varieties of Religious Experience."
- C.D. Broad: "The Argument from Religious Experience."
- Wallace Matson: "Skepticism on Religious Experience."
- William Alston: "Religious Experience and Religious Belief."
- Louis Pojman: "A Critique of Arguments for the Validity of Religious Experience."
- Bibliography.
- PART III: THE PROBLEM OF EVIL AND OTHER ATHEOLOGICAL ARGUMENTS.
- David Hume: "The Argument from Evil."
- Leibniz: "Theodicy."
- John Hick: "Evil, Theodicy, and Soul-Making."
- Edward Madden and Peter Hare: "A Critique of Hick's Soul-Making Theodicy."
- John Mackie: "The Problem of Evil Proves Atheism."
- Alvin Plantinga: "The Free Will Defense."
- William Rowe: "The Inductive Argument from Evil Against the Existence of God."
- Sigmund Freud: "The Future of an Illusion."
- Paul Draper: "Evolution and the Problem of Evil."
- Bibliography.
- PART IV: THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD.
- Time and Eternity.
- Stephen T. Davis: "Temporal Eternity."
- Hugh McCann: "Timeless Eternity."
- Omniscience and Freedom.
- St. Thomas Aquinas: "Does God's Omniscience Preclude Human Freedom?"
- Nelson Pike: "God's Omniscience Does Preclude Human Freedom."
- Alvin Plantinga: "God's Omniscience Does Not Preclude Human Freedom."
- Omnipotence.
- St. Thomas Aquinas: "Is God's Power Limited?"
- George Mavrodes: "Some Puzzles Concerning Omnipotence."
- Harry Frankfurt: "The Logic of Omnipotence."
- Nelson Pike: "Omnipotence and God's Ability to Sin."
- Bibliography.
- PART V: MIRACLES AND REVELATION.
- David Hume: "Against Miracles."
- Richard Swinburne: "For the Possibility of Miracles."
- J. L. Mackie: "Miracles and Testimony."
- Richard Purtill: "Miracles: What if They Happened?"
- Richard Swinburne: "Miracles and Revelation."
- Biblography.
- PART VI: DEATH AND IMMORTALITY.
- Plato: "Immortality of the Soul."
- David Hume: "Skepticism over Immortality of the Soul."
- Bertrand Russell: "The Finality of Death."
- John Hick: "On Immortality and Resurrection."
- Paul Edwards: "Against Survival: The Dependence of Consciousness on the Brain."
- Jeffrey Olen: "Personal Identity and Life after Death."
- Peter Van Inwagen: "The Possibility of Resurrection."
- Bibliography.
- PART VII: FAITH AND REASON.
- The Challenge to Faith.
- Anthony Flew, R. M. Hare, and Basil Mitchell: "Theology and Falsification."
- Michael Scriven: "The Presumption of Atheism."
- C. S. Lewis: "The Legitimacy of Belief."
- Pragmatic Justification of Religious Belief.
- Blaise Pascal: "The Wager."
- W. K. Clifford: "The Ethics of Belief."
- William James: "The Will to Believe."
- Fideism: Faith Without/Against Reason.
- Soren Kierkegaard: "Subjectivity and Truth."
- Robert Adams: "Kierkegaard's Argument Against Objective Reasoning in Religion."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein: "A Lecture on Religious Belief."
- Norman Malcolm: "The Groundlessness of Religious Belief."
- Michael Martin: "A Critique of Fideism."
- Rationality and Justified Religious Belief.
- John Hick: "Rational Theistic Belief without Proof."
- Alvin Plantinga: "Religious Belief without Evidence."
- Michael Martin: "A Critique of Plantinga's Religious Epistemology."
- Louis Pojman: "Rationality and Religious Belief."
- Louis Pojman: "Faith, Doubt, and Hope."
- Bibliography.
- PART VIII: RELIGIOUS PLURALISM.
- John Hick: "The New Map of the Universe of Faiths: A Defense of Religious Pluralism."
- Alvin Plantinga: "Pluralism: A Defense of Religious Exclusivism."
- David Basinger: "Reformed Epistemology and Hick's Religious Pluralism."
- Paul Tillich: "Faith as Ultimate Concern."
- Joseph Runzo: "God, Commitment, and Other Faiths: Pluralism vs Relativism."
- Bibliography.
- PART IX: ETHICS AND RELIGION.
- Plato: "On the Divine Command Theory of Morality."
- Patrick Nowell-Smith: "Morality: Religious and Secular."
- George Mavrodes: "Religion and the Queerness of Morality."
- Bibliography.



