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This important new volume is a combined anthology and guide intended for use as a textbook in courses on the philosophy of religion. It aims to bring to the student the very best current work on important topics in the field.

The anthology is comprised of six sections, each of which opens with a substantive introductory essay followed by a selection of influential writings by prominent philosophers of religion:
-- Religious Epistemology deals with the rationality of theism and theistic beliefs.
-- Existence of God presents the cosmological, teleological, axiological, noological, and ontological arguments for the existence of God.
-- Coherence of Theism covers the divine attributes of necessity, eternity, omnipotence, omniscience, and goodness.
-- Problem of Evil treats both the internal and external challenge posed by evil to theistic belief.
-- Soul and Immortality explores the substantiality and immateriality of the soul and implications for life after the death of the body.
-- Christian Theology handles problems posed by the Trinity, inc

William Lane Craig is Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in Los Angeles

General Introduction

1

(6)

William Lane Craig

Religious Epistemology

Religious Epistemology: Introduction

7

(10)

Kevin Meeker

`The Logic of Pascal's Wager'

17

(8)

Ian Hacking

`A Central Theistic Argument'

25

(15)

George Schlesinger

`Is Belief in God Rationally Acceptable?'

40

(17)

Alvin Plantinga

`Defeating Theistic Beliefs'

57

(25)

Philip L. Quinn

Suggested Reading

66

(3)

Natural Theology

Natural Theology: Introduction

69

(13)

William Lane Craig

Cosmological Argument

`The Cosmological Argument and the Epistemic Status of Belief in God'

82

(10)

Stephen T. Davis

The Kalam Cosmological Argument

92

(22)

William Lane Craig

Teleological Argument

`The Prerequisites of Life in our Universe'

114

(16)

John Leslie

`Design and the Many-Worlds Hypothesis'

130

(19)

Robin Collins

Axiological Argument

`The Value Dimension of the Cosmos: A Moral Argument'

149

(6)

Stuart C. Hackett

Noological Argument

`Searle's Biological Naturalism and the Argument from Consciousness'

155

(25)

J. P. Moreland

Ontological Argument

`The Ontological Argument'

180

(9)

Alvin Plantinga

`The Conceptualist Argument for God's Existence'

189

(27)

Quentin Smith

Suggested Reading

198

(5)

The Coherence of Theism

The Coherence of Theism: Introduction

203

(13)

William Lane Craig

Necessity

`Divine Necessity'

216

(14)

Robert Prevost

Eternity

`God and Timelessness'

230

(16)

Alan Padgett

Omniscience

`On Ockham's Way Out'

246

(11)

Alvin Plantinga

`On Divine Middle Knowledge'

257

(8)

Alfred J. Freddoso

Omnipotence

`Maximal Power'

265

(18)

Thomas P. Flint

Alfred J. Freddoso

Goodness

`What Euthyphro Should Have Said'

283

(34)

William P. Alston

Suggested Reading

299

(4)

The Problem of Evil

The Problem of Evil: Introduction

303

(14)

Timothy O'Connor

`The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism'

317

(11)

William L. Rowe

`Pain and Pleasure: An Evidential Problem for Theists'

328

(18)

Paul Draper

`Some (Temporarily) Final Thoughts on Evidential Arguments from Evil'

346

(24)

William P. Alston

`The Magnitude, Duration, and Distribution of Evil: A Theodicy'

370

(24)

Peter van Inwagen

`The Problem of Evil'

394

(53)

Eleonore Stump

Suggested Reading

425

(4)

The Soul and Life Everlasting

The Soul and Life Everlasting: Introduction

429

(18)

J. P. Moreland

`A Refutation of Dualism'

447

(8)

Paul Churchland

`A Defense of Dualism'

455

(21)

John Foster

`A Defense of Dualism'

476

(20)

Keith E. Yandell

`Dualism and Personal Identity'

496

(21)

Richard Swinburne

`The Resurrection of the Dead'

517

(39)

Stephen T. Davis

Suggested Reading

538

(5)

Christian Theology

Christian Theology: Introduction

543

(13)

Michael Murray

Trinity

`A Defense of the Doctrine of the Trinity'

556

(12)

Richard Swinburne

Incarnation

`The Two Minds View of Incarnation'

568

(9)

Thomas V. Morris

Hell

`Heaven and Hell'

577

(19)

Michael J. Murray

Atonement

Rethinking the Logic of Penal Substitution

596

(13)

Steven Porter

Prayer

`Petitionary Prayer'

609

(18)

Eleonore Stump

Suggested Reading

625

(2)

Notes on the Editors

627

(2)

Acknowledgements

629

(4)

Index

633

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