Philosophy of religion : selected readings - Peterson, Michael L., 1950- (New York : Oxford University Press, 1996)
Part One. Religious Experience -- 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 -- Part Two. 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 / Soren Kierkegaard -- Soft Rationalism / William J. Abraham -- Part Three. The Divine Attributes -- God's Necessary Existence Is Impossible / J.N. Findlay -- God's Necessary Existence / Thomas Morris -- 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 -- God Is Creative-Responsive Love / John B. Cobb and David Ray Griffin -- Part Four. Theistic Arguments -- 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 -- A Contemporary Version of the Cosmological Argument / Richard Taylor -- The Kalam Cosmological Argument / J.P. Moreland -- Critique of the Cosmological Argument / J.L. Mackie -- The Anthropic Teleological Argument / L. Stafford Betty with Bruce Cordell -- A Naturalistic Account of the Universe / Paul Davies -- The Moral Argument / C.S. Lewis -- Part Five. The Problem of Evil -- Evil Is Privation of Good / Saint Augustine -- Evil Makes a Strong Case Against God's Existence / David Hume -- Evil and Omnipotence / J.L. Mackie -- The Free Will Defense / Alvin Plantinga -- Soul-Making Theodicy / John Hick -- Evil and Theodicy / William Rowe -- Part Six. Knowing God Without Arguments -- The Reformed Objection to Natural Theology / Alvin Plantinga -- Knowledge, Belief, and Reformed Epistemology / Jay M. Van Hook -- On Reformed Epistemology / Alvin Plantinga -- Reformed Epistemology and Hick's Religious Pluralism / David Basinger -- Part Seven. Religious Language -- The Doctrine of Analogy / Saint Thomas Aquinas -- The Falsification Challenge / Antony Flew -- Religious Language as Symbolic / Paul Tillich -- Speaking Literally of God / William P. Alston -- Part Eight. Miracles -- The Evidence for Miracles Is Weak / David Hume -- Miracles and Historical Evidence / Richard Swinburne -- Miracles and Testimony / J.L. Mackie -- Part Nine. Life After Death -- The Soul Survives and Function 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 -- Part Ten. Religion and Science -- Scientific and Religious Logic / Holmes Rolston III -- Theories and Facts in the Creation-Evolution Controversy / A. David Kline -- Science Must Not Be Subordinated to Metaphysics and Theology / Ernest Nagel -- Part Eleven. Religious Diversity -- Religious Exclusivism / James Borland -- Religious Inclusivism / Karl Rahner -- Religious Pluralism / John Hick -- Part Twelve. Religious Ethics -- Ethics and the Commands of God / Robert M. Adams -- Ethics without Religion / Kai Nielsen -- Ethics and Natural Law / Thomas Aquinas -- Part Thirteen. Philosophy and Theological Doctrines -- Jesus Christ Was Fully God and Fully Human / Thomas Morris -- The Traditional Understanding of the Atonement Must Be Modified / Philip Quinn -- Why Petition God? / Eleonore Stump.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Religion -- Philosophy