Including over one hundred and fifty pages of new material, a new introduction, enhanced headnotes, and an updated list of further readings, this significantly expanded anthology provides a rich selection of traditional and modern works that reflect the many ways in which philosophers have attempted to address the question of the existence of God.

Preface for Instructors
Introduction for Students
Arguments for God's Existence	p. 1
"God Above Reason," from On Free Choice of the Will	p. 1
"The Ontological Argument," from Proslogion	p. 17
"The Five Ways," from Summa Theologica	p. 30
"The Teleological Argument," from Natural Theology	p. 37
"Philosophical and Scientific Pointers to Creatio ex Nihilo"	p. 56
"Religion and the Queerness of Morality"	p. 74
"Moral Arguments for Theistic Belief"	p. 90
Criticisms	p. 113
"Critique of the Traditional Arguments," from Why I Am Not a Christian	p. 113
"Anthropomorphism," from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion	p. 121
"The Existence of God"	p. 134
"The 'Big Bang' Argument for the Existence of God"	p. 150
Arguments Against, with Replies	p. 163
"Some Puzzles Concerning Omnipotence"	p. 163
"Omniscience and Immutability"	p. 167
"Omniscience and Human Freedom," from Consolation of Philosophy	p. 182
"God and Human Attitudes"	p. 196
Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manichaeans	p. 212
"Evil and a Finite God," from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion	p. 224
"Evil and Omnipotence"	p. 230
"The Vale of Soul-Making," from Evil and the God of Love	p. 245
The Nature of Religion	p. 253
"Religion and Power," from On the Genealogy of Morals, The Gay Science, and Beyond Good and Evil	p. 253
"The Psychological Origins of Religion," from Totem and Taboo, The Future of an Illusion, and Civilization and Its Discontents	p. 262
"The Reality of the Unseen," from The Varieties of Religious Experience	p. 277
"The Idea of the Holy," from The Idea of the Holy	p. 285
"The Phenomenology of Religion," from The Myth of the Eternal Return	p. 299
A Godless World	p. 309
"Atheistic Existentialism," from Existentialism and Human Emotions	p. 309
"Absurd," from The Myth of Sisyphus	p. 317
Alternative Strategies	p. 328
"Reconceiving God," from Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes	p. 328
"Theology and Falsification"	p. 340
"Is Belief in God Properly Basic?"	p. 351
"The Wager," from Pensees	p. 364
"The Will to Believe," from Pragmatism and Other Essays	p. 369
"Signals of Transcendence," from A Rumor of Angels	p. 384
"I and Thou," from I and Thou	p. 397
Further Readings	p. 408
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