Alternative Concepts of God Essays on the Metaphysics of the Divine

Andrei Buckareff, Marist College, New York,Yujin Nagasawa, University of Birmingham

Andrei A. Buckareff is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Cognitive Science Program at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. His research focuses on metaphysical and epistemological issues in philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion. His work has been published in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy, International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, Philosophia, Philosophical Studies, Religious Studies, Theoria, and elsewhere.

Yujin Nagasawa is Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of God and Phenomenal Consciousness and The Existence of God. He has published numerous articles in such journals as Mind, the Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese, the American Philosophical Quarterly, Religious Studies and Faith and Philosophy. He won the Philosophical Quarterly Essay Prize in 2007, the Templeton Award for Theological Promise in 2008, and the Excellence in Philosophy of Religion Prize in 2011.

Introduction: Alternative Conceptions of Divinity and Contemporary Analytic Philosophy of Religion, Andrei A. Buckareff and Yujin Nagasawa
Part I: Pantheism
1. The Personal Pantheist Conception of God, Peter Forrest
2. Pantheism as Panpsychism, Karl Pfeifer
3. A Way of Picturing God, John Leslie
4. Naturalistic Pantheism, Brian Leftow
Part II: Panentheism
5. Modal Panentheism, Yujin Nagasawa
6. Concepts of God and Problems of Evil, John Bishop and Ken Perszyk
7. Horrors: To What End?, Marilyn McCord Adams
Part III: Further Alternatives
8. Taking the Mind of God Seriously: Why and How to Become a Theistic Idealist, Charles Taliaferro
9. God for All Time: From Theism to Ultimism, J. L. Schellenberg
10. Playing the God Game: the Perils of Religious Fictionalism, Robin Le Poidevin
Part IV: Causal vs. Non-Causal Accounts
11. The Divine as Ground of Existence and of Transcendental Values: An Exploration, Willem B. Drees
12. Theological Realism, Divine Action, and Divine Location, Andrei A. Buckareff
13. Free Will and the Mythology of Causation, Hugh J. McCann
Part V: Naturalism and Alternative Concepts
14. Samuel Alexander's Spacetime God: A Naturalist Rival to Current Emergentist Theologies, Emily Thomas
15. On Religious Naturalism, Eric Steinhart