Philosophy of religion: selected readings

Introduction : exploring the philosophy of religion

Religion as a social phenomenon / Emile Durkheim

defense of religious realism / Roger Trigg

meaning of religious beliefs is their use / D. Z. Phillips

Religious experiences / Saint Teresa of Jesus

Religious experience as 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

phenomenological account of religious experience / Merold Westphal

harmony of reason and revelation / Thomas Aquinas

harmony of philosophy and the Qur'an / Ibn Rushd

wager / Blaise Pascal

ethics of belief / William Clifford

will to believe / William James

Truth is subjectivity / Soren Kierkegaard

Critical dialog in philosophy of religion / C. Stephen Evans

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

classical ontological argument / Saint Anselm

Critique of Anselm's argument / Gaunilo

contemporary modal version of the ontological argument / Alvin Plantinga

classical cosmological argument / Thomas Aquinas

cosmological argument / Bruce Reichenbach

Kalam cosmological argument / William Lane Craig

Critique of the cosmological argument / J. L. Mackie

analogical teleological argument / William Paley

anthropic teleological argument / L. Stafford Betty and Bruce Cordell

Moral arguments for God's existence / Robert Merrihew Adams

reformed objection to natural theology / Alvin Plantinga

Experience, proper basicality, and belief in God / Robert Pargetter

case of the intellectually sophisticated theist / William Hasker

Evil is privation of good / Saint Augustine

Evil makes a strong case against God's existence / David Hume

Evil and omnipotence / J. L. Mackie

free will defense / Alvin Plantinga

Soul-making theodicy / John Hick

evidential argument from evil / William Rowe

Horrendous evils and the goodness of God / Marilyn McCord Adams

Providence - risky or risk-free? / Paul Helm

Middle knowledge and classical Christian thought / David Basinger

objection to middle knowledge / Robert Merrihew Adams

vulnerability of God / J. R. Lucas

God is creative-responsive love / John B. Cobb and David Ray Griffin

doctrine of analogy / Thomas Aquinas

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

true Tao is unspeakable / Lao Tsu

evidence for miracles is weak / David Hume

Miracles and historical evidence / Richard Swinburne

Miracles and testimony / J. L. Mackie

soul survives and functions after death / H. H. Price

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

Rebirth / Sri Aurobindo

Two separate domains / Stephen Jay Gould

Science discredits religion / Richard Dawkins

Theology and scientific methodology / Nancey Murphy

Buddhism and other religions / Dalai Lama

uniqueness of religious doctrines / Paul J. Griffiths

Religious inclusivism / Karl Rahner

Religious pluralism / John Hick

Which God ought we to obey? / Alasdair MacIntyre

Ethics without religion / Jean-Paul Sartre

Ethics and natural law / Thomas Aquinas.