Philosophy of Religion An Anthology

by Pojman, Louis P.; Rea, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780495095040
• ISBN10: 0495095044
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-22
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

The most comprehensive text in its field, this anthology includes 70 articles in 10 areas of philosophy of religion: Traditional Arguments for the Existence of God; The Argument from Religious Experience; The Problem of Evil; The Attributes of God; Miracles, Death and Immortality; Faith and Reason; Science, Religion, and Evolution; Religious Pluralism; and Religion and Ethics. The articles are arranged in a coherent framework, with the presentation of each area progressing from the classical to the contemporary and treated in a dialectic (pro and con) fashion that exposes students to both sides of each issue.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Traditional Arguments for the Existence of God

The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God

The Ontological Argument

A Critique of the Ontological Argument

The Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God

The Five Ways

The Argument from Contingency

A Critique of the Cosmological Argument

An Examination of the Cosmological Argument

The Kalam Cosmological Argument

A Critique of the Kalam Cosmological Argument

The Teleological Argument for the Existence of God

The Watch and the Watchmaker

A Critique of the Design Argument

The Argument from Design

A Scientific Argument for the Existence of God

The Argument from Religious Experience

Selections of Mystical Experiences

Mysticism

The Future of an Illusion

Broad The Argument from Religious Experience

A Critique of the Argument from Religious Experience

Religious Experience and Religious Belief

The Problem Of Evil

The Argument from Evil

Theodicy: A Defense of Theism

Rebellion

Evil and Soul-Making

A Critique of Hick''s Theodicy

Evil and Omnipotence

The Free Will Defense

The Inductive Argument from Evil Against the Existence of God

Evolution and the Problem of Evil

The Attributes of God

Time and Eternity

Temporal Eternity

The God Beyond Time

God''s Omniscience and Human Freedom

Divine Foreknowledge and Human Free Will

God''s Foreknowledge and Human Free Will Are Incompatible

God''s Foreknowledge and Human Free Will Are Compatible

God''s Omnipotence

Is God''s Power Limited? George Mavrodes: Some Puzzles Concerning Omnipotence

The Logic of Omnipotence

Miracles

Against Miracles

Of ''Of Miracles.''

Miracles and Testimony

Evidence for the Resurrection

Hyperspace and Christianity

Death and Immortality

Plato: Immortality of the Soul

The Finality of Death

Immortality and Resurrection

Personal Identity and Life After Death

A Hindu Theory of Life, Death, and Reincarnation

Faith And Reason

Pragmatic Justification of Religious Belief

The Wager

The Ethics of Belief

The Will to Believe

Rationality and Justified Religious Belief

Rational Theistic Belief Without Proof

Religious Belief Without Evidence

A Critique of Plantinga''s Religious Epistemology

Faith, Hope, and Doubt

Science, Religion, and Evolution

The Relationship Between Science and Religion

Science Versus Religion

Non-Overlapping Magesteria

Faith and Science

Evolution, Naturalism, and Intelligent Design

Signs of Intelligence: A Primer on the Detection of Intelligent Design

Molecular Machines: Experimental Support for the Design Inference

Born-Again Creationism

Natural Providence (Or Design Trouble). Alvin Plantinga: An Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism

Commonsense Naturalism

Religious Pluralism

Religious Pluralism and Ultimate Reality

A Defense of Religious Exclusivism

Hick''s Religious Pluralism and "Reformed Epistemology"? A Middle Ground

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