Includes bibliographical references.

Underground man / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- The overcoming of man / Friedrich Nietzsche -- The death of Iván Ilích / Leo Tolstoy -- Chamberlain Brigge's death / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Religion as wish fulfillment / Sigmund Freud -- Religion as projection of human nature / Ludwig Feuerbach -- Religion's origin in society / Emile Durkheim -- The masks of God / Joseph Campbell -- The idea of the holy / Rudolf Otto -- The nature of Zen / D. T. Suzuki -- The meeting of East and West / Heinrich Zimmer -- The dialogue in myth of East and West / Joseph Campbell -- Buddhist nirvana / Heinrich Zimmer -- Christian atonement / D. M. Baillie -- Mature love / Erich Fromm -- Religious symbols / Paul Tillich -- Verification and religious language / John Wilson -- Faith and reason / Thomas Aquinas -- Theology and falsification / Antony Flew, R. M. Hare, Basil Mitchell, and I. M. Crombie -- The ontological argument / Anselm -- The five ways / Thomas Aquinas -- The moral argument / Immanuel Kant -- Religion and reality / John Oman -- The unchangeableness of God / Soren Kierkegaard -- The nonexistence of God / Max Otto -- Atheistic humanism / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Proclamation of God's death / Friedrich Nietzsche -- 'Death of God' theology / Thomas Altizer.