Readings in philosophy of religion : East meets West / edited by Andrew Eshleman.

Includes bibliographical references.

The divine attributes : what is God like? / Michael Peterson, William Hasker, Bruce Reichenbach, David Basinger -- The female nature of God : a problem in contemporary religious life / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- God as creative-responsive love / John B. Cobb, Jr., David Ray Griffin -- The Vedic-Upanisadic concept of Brahman (The highest God) / Sushanta Sen -- Emptiness in Mahayana Buddhism / Christopher Ives -- Reality and divinity in Chinese philosophy / Chung-Ying Cheng -- How the supreme nature exists through itself / Anselm of Canterbury -- Of the unicity of God / Avicenna (Ibn Sina) -- The omnipotence of God / Thomas Aquinas -- Thinking and speaking about God by analogy / Thomas Aquinas -- Everything has its self in Brahman / Shankara (Samkara) -- An analysis of Nirvāṇa / Nagarjuna -- Non-polar and yet supreme polarity! / Zhou Dunyi (Zhou Lianxi) --

A cosmological argument for God's existence / Richard Taylor -- Al-Ghāzāli and the Kalām cosmological argument / William Lane Craig -- Cosmological arguments / J.L. Mackie -- How the existence of God explains the world and its order / Richard Swinburne -- Are we the outcome of chance or design? / Robin Le Poidevin -- The message of the Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad : a phenomenological analysis of mind and consciousness / Ramakrishna Puligandla -- Antirationalism in Zhuangzi and Kierkegaard / Karen L. Carr, Philip J. Ivanhoe -- Truly there is a God / Anselm of Canterbury -- Whether God exists? / Thomas Aquinas -- Evidence of design / William Paley -- On the argument from design / David Hume -- Truth is subjectivity / Søren Kierkegaard -- The will to believe / William James -- Is belief in God properly basic? / Alvin Plantinga -- Plantinga on belief in God as properly basic / Michael Martin -- Religious experience justifies religious belief / William P. Alston -- Do mystics see God? / Evan Fales -- Mystical knowledge : knowledge by identity / Robert K.C. Forman -- The difference between union and rapture / Teresa of Ávila -- Divine intoxication / al-Ghazali (Abu Hamid) -- Manifesting suchness / Ehei Dogen --

Evil and omnipotence / J.L. Mackie -- The logical problem of evil / William Rowe -- An Irenaean theodicy / John Hick -- The evidential problem of evil / William Rowe -- The concept of God after Auschwitz : a Jewish voice / Hans Jonas -- Śaṃkara's theodicy / Bimal K. Matilal -- Karma, rebirth, and the problem of evil / Whitley R.P. Kaufman -- Evil as a privation of good / Augustine of Hippo -- The argument from evil / David Hume -- Brahman, creation, and evil / Shankara (Samkara) -- A naturalistic case for extinction / Linda Badham -- Brain science and the soul / Donald MacKay -- The resurrection of the dead / Stephen T. Davis -- The idea of reincarnation / Joseph Prabhu -- Not-self, Kamma, and rebirth / Christopher Gowans -- Nondualistic problems of immortality / Roy W. Perrett -- The immortality of the soul / Plato -- The conscious subject persists in the state of release / Ramanuja -- What is reborn is neither the same nor another / Anonymous (Translator T.W. Rhys Davids) --

A religious understanding of religion : a model of the relationship between traditions / John Hick -- In defence of a contented religious exclusivism / Jerome Gellman -- John Hick and the question of truth in religion / Brian Hebblethwaite -- A process approach to pluralism / John B. Cobb, Jr. -- A dynamic unity in religious pluralism : a proposal from the Buddhist point of view / Masao Abe -- Anti-realist faith / Don Cupitt -- The religious necessity of realism / Paul Badham -- Postmodernism and religious reflection / Merold Westphal -- The ends of metaphysics / Robert Kane -- Feminism and analytic philosophy of religion / Sarah Coakley -- Heidegger and Buddhism / Michael E. Zimmerman -- Li and the A-theistic religiousness of classical Confucianism / Roger T. Ames.