Readings in Philosophy of Religion : Ancient to Contemporary

by Zagzebski, Linda; Miller, Timothy D.

• ISBN13: 9781405180917
• ISBN10: 1405180919
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-23
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Comprised of readings from ancient to modern times, this volume offers a comprehensive introduction to the central questions of the philosophy of religion. Provides a history of the philosophy of religion, from antiquity up to the twentieth century Each section is preceded by extensive commentary written by the editors, followed by readings that are arranged chronologically Designed to be accessible to both undergraduate and graduate students

Author Biography

Linda Zagzebski is the George Lynn Cross Research Professor of Philosophy and Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Divine Motivation Theory (2004), The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge (1991) and Virtues of the Mind (1996), and has edited Rational Faith (1993), Virtue Epistemology: Essays on Epistemic Virtue and Responsibility (with Abrol Fairweather, 2001), and Intellectual Virtue: Perspectives from Ethics and Epistemology (with Michael De Paul, 2003).

Timothy D. Miller is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Lee University in Cleveland, TN. He is the author of "Desgabets on Cartesian Minds" (British Journal for the History of Philosophy) and "On the Distinction between Creation and Conservation: A Partial Defense of Continuous Creation" (forthcoming in Religious Studies). His primary research interests lie in philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and early modern philosophy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

General Introduction

The Philosophical Treatment of Religion: Introduction

The Nature of the Gods, Book 1: Cicero

Classical Arguments for Theism: Introduction

The Design Argument

The Fifth Way

The Watch and the Watchmaker

Critique of the Design Argument

The Teleological Argument

The Argument from the Appearance of Design

Plato's Cosmological Argument

The Eternality of Motion and the Unmoved Mover

The Kal-+m Cosmological Argument

The Existence and Oneness of God

The First Three Ways

The Argument from Dependent Beings

Critique of the Cosmological Argument

Anselm's Ontological Argument

Descartes's Ontological Argument

Kant's Critique of the Three Traditional Proofs

The Ontological Argument

Other Approaches to Religious Belief: Introduction

The Numinous

Mysticism and Religious Experience

The Existence of God and the Existence of Homer: Rethinking Theism and Revelatory Claims

Truth is Subjectivity

Kierkegaard's Arguments against Objective Reasoning in Religion

Lectures on Religious Belief

Origin of Religion

The Essence of Religion in General

The Future of an Illusion

Who or What is God?: Introduction

On Being

The Final Cause

The Divine Darkness: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

Perfect Being

On the Trinity

Omnipotence

Omniscience and Immutability

Atemporal Personhood

Fate, Freedom, and Foreknowledge: Introduction

The Sea Battle Argument

On Fate and On Divination

God's Timeless Knowing

Ockham on God's Foreknowledge, and Future Contingents

Middle Knowledge

Religion and Morality: Introduction

God is the Measure of All Things

The Moral Argument for the Existence of God

The Euthyphro Dilemma

Questions on the Books of the Sentences

Lectures on Romans

Divine Commands

The Virtues of God and the Foundations of Ethics

Selections from Treatise on Law

The Problem of Evil: Introduction

God is Not the Author of Evil

On the Anger of God

That Which Is, Is Good

On the Free Choice of the Will

Formal Summary of the Theodicy

Myth of the Goddess Pallas

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