A Companion to Philosophy of Religion

In 85 new and updated essays, this comprehensive volume provides an authoritative guide to the philosophy of religion. Includes contributions from established philosophers and rising stars 22 new entries have now been added, and all material from the previous edition has been updated and reorganized Broad coverage spans the areas of world religions, theism, atheism, , the problem of evil, science and religion, and ethics

Charles Taliaferro is professor of philosophy at St. Olaf College and the author or editor of eleven books, including Evidence and Faith: Philosophy and Religion since the Seventeenth Century (2005). He is on the editorial board of American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy Compass, Sophia, and Religious Studies, and has been a visiting scholar at NYU and Oxford, Princeton, and Columbia Universities.

Paul Draper is professor of philosophy at Purdue University and a former president of the Society for Philosophy of Religion. He is the author of the article "Pain and Pleasure: An Evidential Problem for Theists" in Nous (1989) and the editor of God or Blind Nature? Philosophers Debate the Evidence (2007). He is editor of Philo: A Journal of Philosophy and serves on the editorial boards of International Journal for Philosophy of Religion and Faith and Philosophy.

Philip L. Quinn (1940-2004) was John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He was author of Divine Commands and Moral Requirements (1978) and of numerous articles in philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, theoretical physics, religious ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, value theory, political philosophy, and philosophy and literature.

Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction
Philosophical Issues In The Religions Of The World
Hinduism
Buddhism
Chinese Confucianism and Daoism
African religions from a philosophical point of view
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
From Ancient Philosophical Theology To Modern Philosophy Of Religion
Ancient philosophical theology
The Christian contribution to medieval philosophical theology
The Islamic contribution to medieval philosophical theology
The Jewish contribution to medieval philosophical theology
Early modern philosophical theology on the Continent
Early modern philosophical theology in Great Britain
The emergence of modern philosophy of religion
Philosophy Of Religion And Religious Philosophy In The Twentieth Century
American pragmatism
Personalism
Process theology
Phenomenology and existentialism
Wittgenstein
Thomism
Natural theology
The Reformed tradition
The Jewish tradition
The Christian East
The Concept Of God
Perfect being theology
Holiness
Omnipotence
Omniscience
Omnipresence
Goodness
Simplicity
Eternity
Necessity
Incorporeality
Beauty
Divine action
Creation and conservation
Immutability and impassibility
Providence
Pantheism
Religious language
The Justification Of Theistic Belief
Ontological arguments
Cosmological arguments
Teleological and design arguments
Moral arguments
Arguments from consciousness and free will
Miracles
Religious experience
Cumulative cases
Pragmatic arguments
Tradition
Fideism
Challenges To Theistic Belief
The presumption of atheism
The verificationist challenge
Theism and incoherence
Foreknowledge and human freedom
The problem of no best world
The logical problem of evil
The evidential problem of evil
Divine hiddenness
Naturalistic explanations of theistic belief
Religion and Science
Historical perspectives on religion and science
Theism and physical cosmology
Theism and evolutionary biology
Theism and the scientific understanding of the mind
Theism and technology
Religion And Values
The ethics of religious commitment
Divine command ethics
Natural law ethics
Religion, law, and politics
Theism and toleration
Sin and original sin
Atonement, justification, and sanctification
Resurrection, heaven, and hell
Reincarnation and Karma
Current Trends And New Directions
Theological realism and antirealism
Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion
Continental philosophy of religion
Reformed epistemology
Evidentialism
Feminism
Philosophical reflection on revelation and scripture
Philosophical reflection on mysticism
Religious pluralism
Comparative philosophy of religions
Resources for Further Study
Index
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