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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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