Philosophy of Religion An Anthology

by Pojman, Louis P.

• ISBN13: 9780534543648
• ISBN10: 0534543642
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-07
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

Preface. Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion. Part I: TRADITIONAL ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. 1. The Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God. St. Thomas Aquinas: The Five Ways. Samuel Clarke: The Argument from Contingency. Paul Edwards: A Critique of the Cosmological Argument. William Rowe: An Examination of the Cosmological Argument. William Lane Craig: The Kalam Cosmological Argument. William Lane Craig: Scientific Confirmation of the Cosmological Argument. Paul Draper: A Critique of the Kalam Cosmological Argument. 2. The Teleological Argument for the Existence of God. William Paley: The Watch and The Watchmaker. David Hume: A Critique of the Design Argument. Richard Swinburne: The Argument from Design. 3. The Ontological Argument. Anselm and Gaunilo: The Ontological Argument. Kant: Critique of the Ontological Argument. Norman Malcolm: Anselm''s Two Ontological Arguments. Part II: ON THE VALIDITY OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE. Selection of Mystic Experiences. William James: The Varieties of Religious Experience. Sigmund Freud: The Future of An Illusion. C.D. Broad: The Argument from Religious Experience. Wallace Matson: Skepticism on Religious Experience. Louis Pojman: A Critique of Arguments for The Validity of Religious Experience. William Alston: Religious Experience and Religious Belief. Bibliography. Part III: THE PROBLEM OF EVIL AND OTHER ATHEOLOGICAL ARGUMENTS. David Hume: The Argument from Evil. Leibniz: Theodicy. John Hick: Evil, Theodicy, and Soul-Making. Edward Madden and Peter Hare: A Critique of Hick''s Soul-Making Theodicy. John Mackie: The Problem of Evil Proves Atheism. Alvin Plantinga: The Free Will Defense. William Rowe: The Inductive Argument from Evil Against The Existence of God. Paul Draper: Evolution and The Problem of Evil. Bibliography. Part IV: THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD. 1. Time and Eternity. Stephen T. Davis: Temporal Eternity. Hugh Mccann: Timeless Eternity. 2. Omniscience and Freedom. St. Thomas Aquinas: Does God''s Omniscience Preclude Human Freedom? Nelson Pike: God''s Omniscience Does Preclude Human Freedom. Alvin Plantinga: God''s Omniscience Does Not Preclude Human Freedom. 3. Omnipotence. St. Thomas Aquinas: Is God''s Power Limited? George Mavrodes: Some Puzzles Concerning Omnipotence. Harry Frankfurt: The Logic of Omnipotence. Nelson Pike: Omnipotence and God''s Ability To Sin. Bibliography. Part V: MIRACLES AND REVELATION. David Hume: Against Miracles. Richard Swinburne: For the Possibility of Miracles. J. L. Mackie: Miracles and Testimony. Richard Purtill: Miracles: What If They Happen? Richard Swinburne: Miracles and Revelation. Bibliography. Part VI: DEATH AND IMMORTALITY. Plato: Immortality of the Soul. David Hume: Skepticism Over Immortality of the Soul. Bertrand Russell: The Finality of Death. John Hick: On Immortality and Resurrection. Anthony Flew: Against Survival. Jeffrey Olen: Personal Identity and Life After Death. Peter Van Inwagen: The Possibility of Resurrection. Bibliography. Part VII: FAITH AND REASON. 1. The Challenge to Faith. Anthony Flew, R. M. Hare, And Basil Mitchell: Theology and Falsification. Michael Scriven: The Presumption of Atheism. C. S. Lewis: The Legitimacy of Belief. 2. Pragmatic Justification of Religious Belief. Blaise Pascal: The Wager. W. K. Clifford: The Ethics of Belief. William James: The Will To Believe. 3. Fideism: Faith Without/Against Reason. Soren Kierkegaard: Subjectivity Is Truth. Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Lecture on Religious Belief. Norman Malcolm: The Groundlessness of Religious Belief. Michael Martin: A Critique of Fideism. 4. Rationality and Justified Religious Belief. John Hick: Rational Theistic Belief Without Proof. Alvin Plantinga: Religious Belief Without Evidence. Michael Martin: A Critique of Plantinga''s Religious Epistemology. Louis Pojman: Faith Without Belief. Bibliography. Part VIII: SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND EVOLUTION. Richard Dawkins: Science and Religion. Duane Gish: Creation Science Versus the Theory of Evolution. David K

Author Biography

Louis P. Pojman (pronounced "poyman") teaches philosophy at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. He received his Ph.D. from Oxford University. His many published philosophy texts have been adopted in classrooms across the United States

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	viii
Traditional Arguments for the Existence of God	1	(86)
The Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God	2	(46)
The Five Ways	3	(2)
Thomas Aquinas
The Argument from Contingency	5	(1)
Samuel Clarke
A Critique of the Cosmological Argument	6	(9)
Paul Edwards
An Examination of the Cosmological Argument	15	(9)
William Rowe
The Kalam Cosmological Argument	24	(6)
William Lane Craig
Scientific Confirmation of the Cosmological Argument	30	(12)
William Lane Craig
A Critique of the Kalam Cosmological Argument	42	(6)
Paul Draper
The Teleological Argument for the Existence of God	48	(21)
The Watch and the Watchmaker	50	(2)
William Paley
A Critique of the Design Argument	52	(7)
David Hume
The Argument from Design	59	(10)
Richard Swinburne
The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God	69	(18)
The Ontological Argument	70	(3)
St. Anselm
A Critique of the Ontological Argument	73	(3)
Immanuel Kant
Anselm's Two Ontological Arguments	76	(11)
Norman Malcolm
The Argument from Religious Experience	87	(50)
Selections of Mystical Experiences	92	(1)
Mysticism	93	(15)
William James
The Future of an Illusion	108	(5)
Sigmund Freud
The Argument from Religious Experience	113	(8)
C. D. Broad
A Critique of the Argument from Religious Experience	121	(9)
Louis P. Pojman
Religious Experience and Religious Belief	130	(7)
William P Alston
The Problem of Evil	137	(70)
The Argument from Evil	141	(5)
David Hume
Theodicy: A Defense of Theism	146	(6)
Gottfried Leibniz
Evil and Soul-Making	152	(4)
John Hick
A Critique of Hick's Theodicy	156	(4)
Edward H. Madden
Peter H. Hare
Evil and Omnipotence	160	(7)
J. L. Mackie
The Free Will Defense	167	(19)
Alvin Plantinga
The Inductive Argument from Evil Against the Existence of God	186	(7)
William Rowe
Evolution and the Problem of Evil	193	(14)
Paul Draper
The Attributes of God	207	(50)
Time and Eternity	208	(23)
Temporal Eternity	209	(7)
Stephen T. Davis
The God Beyond Time	216	(15)
Hugh J. McCann
God's Omniscience and Human Freedom	231	(19)
Divine Foreknowledge and Human Free Will	233	(2)
St. Augustine
God's Foreknowledge and Human Free Will Are Incompatible	235	(10)
Nelson Pike
God's Foreknowledge and Human Free Will Are Compatible	245	(5)
Alvin Plantinga
God's Omnipotence	250	(7)
Is God's Power Limited?	251	(2)
St. Thomas Aquinas
Some Puzzles Concerning Omnipotence	253	(2)
George Mavrodes
The Logic of Omnipotence	255	(2)
Harry Frankfurt
Miracles and Revelation	257	(46)
Against Miracles	261	(8)
David Hume
For the Possibility of Miracles	269	(7)
Richard Swinburne
Miracles and Testimony	276	(7)
J. L. Mackie
Miracles: What If They Happen?	283	(10)
Richard Purtill
Miracles and Revelation	293	(10)
Richard Swinburne
Death and Immortality	303	(34)
Immortality of the Soul	310	(4)
Plato
The Finality of Death	314	(3)
Bertrand Russell
Immortality and Resurrection	317	(6)
John Hick
Personal Identity and Life After Death	323	(10)
Jeffrey Olen
A Hindu Theory of Life, Death, and Reincarnation	333	(4)
Prasannatma Das
Faith and Reason	337	(110)
Challenges to Faith and Responses	338	(21)
Theology and Falsification	339	(5)
Antony Flew
R. M. Hare
Basil Mitchell
The Presumption of Atheism	344	(8)
Michael Scriven
On Obstinacy in Belief	352	(7)
C. S. Lewis
Pragmatic Justification of Religious Belief	359	(18)
The Wager	361	(2)
Blaise Pascal
The Ethics of Belief	363	(5)
W. K. Clifford
The Will to Believe	368	(9)
William James
Fideism: Faith Without/Against Reason	377	(27)
Subjectivity Is Truth	378	(9)
Soren Kierkegaard
A Lecture on Religious Belief	387	(4)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Groundlessness of Belief	391	(8)
Norman Malcolm
A Critique of Fideism	399	(5)
Michael Martin
Rationality and Justified Religious Belief	404	(43)
Rational Theistic Belief Without Proof	405	(9)
John Hick
Religious Belief Without Evidence	414	(15)
Alvin Plantinga
A Critique of Plantinga's Religious Epistemology	429	(7)
Michael Martin
Faith, Hope, and Doubt	436	(11)
Louis P Pojman
Science, Religion, and Evolution	447	(50)
Science Versus Religion	451	(4)
Richard Dawkins
Creationism Versus Evolution	455	(5)
Duane Gish
Theories, Facts, and Gods: Philosophical Aspects of the Creation-Evolution Controversy	460	(5)
A. David Kline
Evolution and Creation Reconciled	465	(10)
Langdon Gilkey
The Christian Argument Against Evolutionary Naturalism	475	(9)
Alvin Plantinga
Plantinga's Evolutionary Meditations	484	(8)
Ernest Sosa
Reply to Sosa	492	(5)
Alvin Plantinga
Religious Pluralism	497	(50)
Religious Pluralism and Ultimate Reality	499	(8)
John Hick
A Defense of Religious Exclusivism	507	(14)
Alvin Plantinga
Hick's Religious Pluralism and ``Reformed Epistemology''-A Middle Ground	521	(7)
David Basinger
Buddhism, Christianity, and the Prospects for World Religion	528	(5)
Dalai Lama
God, Commitment, and Other Faiths: Pluralism Versus Relativism	533	(14)
Joseph Runzo
Religion and Ethics	547	(31)
Morality and Religion	549	(1)
Plato
Morality: Religious and Secular	550	(11)
Patrick Nowell-Smith
Religion and the Queerness of Morality	561	(8)
George Mavrodes
A Free Man's Worship	569	(5)
Bertrand Russell
Religion Gives Meaning to Life	574	(4)
Lois Hope Walker
Bibliography	578