Philosophy of Religion An Anthology

This substantial anthology of classical and contemporary readings serves as a survey and analysis of the key issues, figures, and concepts in the philosophy of religion. The readings examine a wide variety of topics, including religious identity, theism and divine attributes, explanations of religion, theistic arguments, nontheistic religions, evils and goods, religious values, personal identity, and death. The integration of the key issues concerning students today makes this book distinctive and accessible. Edited and introduced by distinguished scholars, these essays are essential reading for anyone interested in the philosophy of religion.

Charles Taliaferro is Professor of Philosophy at St. Olaf College. He is author of Consciousness and the Mind of God (1994), Contemporary Philosophy of Religion (Blackwell 1998), and co-editor of A Companion to Philosophy of Religion (Blackwell, 1997).

Paul J. Griffiths is Schmitt Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is author of On Being Buddha: The Classical Doctrine of Buddhahood (1994), Religious Reading: The Place of Reading in the Practice of Religion (1999), and Problems of Religious Diversity (Blackwell, 2001).

Acknowledgments
Religious Identity
Introduction
What Makes Religious Beliefs Religious?
World Religions and World Orders
Religion
Theism and Divine Attributes
Introduction
God
The Power of God and God's Knowledge
Eternity
Divine Freedom and Creation
The Idea of God in Feminist Philosophy
Explanations of Religion
Introduction
Theology and Falsification: A Symposium
Psychoanalysis and Theism
Psychoanalytic Theory and Theistic Belief
The Varieties of Religious Experience
The Numinous
Religious Experience
The Groundlessness of Belief
Thought-Project
The Ethics of Belief
Religious belief as properly basic
Theistic Arguments
Introduction
The Cosmological Argument
Cosmological Arguments
Teleological Argument
The Arguments from Design
Anselm's Ontological Arguments
The Ontological Argument
Nontheistic Religions
Introduction
Darsana, Anviksiki, Philosophy
The Preview of the Real Atomic Theory
Finding a Self: Buddhist and Feminist Perspectives
How Many Nondualities Are There?
Evils and Goods
Introduction
The Problem of the Natural Evil
The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism
The Problem of Evil
The Problem of Evil, the Problem of Air, and the Problem of Silence
Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God
Selves and Shadows
Buddhism and Evil
Evil and Ethical Terror
Religious Values
Introduction
Pluralism, Tolerance, and Disagreement
A Modified Command Theory of Ethical Wrongness
Morality and Religion Reconsidered
Religion and the Queerness of Morality
Pure Love
The Possibility of Incarnation
Religious Pluralism
The real or the Real? Chardin or Rothko?
Does Nature Need to be Redeemed?
Pascal's Wager
Why is Faith a Virtue?
Personal Identity and Death
Introduction
The Metaphysical Self
Of Miracles
Do We Need Immortality?
Why We Need Immortality

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