Renewing Philosophy of Religion Exploratory Essays

Paul Draper, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University,J. L. Schellenberg, Professor of Philosophy, Mount Saint Vincent University

Paul Draper is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University, where he has taught since the fall of 2006. Prior to that, he taught for 19 years at Florida International University in Miami. He has also had three fellowships at the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame, including the Alvin Plantinga Fellowship in 2010-2011. Most of his published work is on the problem of evil and other topics in the philosophy of religion.


J. L. Schellenberg is Professor of Philosophy at Mount Saint Vincent University and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Graduate Studies at Dalhousie University. He is the author of Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason and of a trilogy on the philosophy of religion: Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Religion, The Wisdom to Doubt: A Justification of Religious Skepticism, and The Will to Imagine: A Justification of Skeptical Religion. The ideas of the trilogy, and his earlier work on hiddenness, are made generally accessible in two recent short works from Oxford: Evolutionary Religion and The Hiddenness Argument: Philosophy's New Challenge to Belief in God.

Introduction, Paul Draper and J. L. Schellenberg
1. Rescuing Religion from Faith, Sonia Sikka
2. Global Philosophy of Religion and Its Challenges, Yujin Nagasawa
3. Against Ultimacy, Stephen Maitzen
4. Religion after Naturalism, Eric Steinhart
5. Renewing our Understanding of Religion: Philosophy of Religion and the Goals of the Spiritual Life, Mark Wynn
6. On Facing Up to the Question of Religion as Such, John Bishop
7. The Future of Philosophy of Religion; the Future of the Study of Religion; and (Even) the Future of Religion, Robert McKim
8. How North American Philosophers of Religion See Their Field, Wesley J. Wildman and David Rohr
9. Continental Philosophy of Religion in a Kenotic Tone, J. Aaron Simmons
10. Rationality and Worldview, Graham Oppy
11. On the Socratic Injunction to Follow the Argument Where It Leads, Jason Marsh
12. Spinoza's Philosophy of Religious Life, Clare Carlisle
13. Protest and Enlightenment in the Book of Job, Wes Morriston