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The philosophy of religion reader / edited by Chad Meister.

Contributor(s): Meister, Chad V, 1965-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010Copyright date: ©2008Description: xvii, 718 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415408912 (pbk.); 0415408911 (pbk.); 9780415408905; 0415408903Subject(s): Religion -- Philosophy | Philosophy and religionDDC classification: 210 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
General introduction / Chad Meister -- Part One. Religious diversity -- Religious pluralism and the pluralistic hypothesis / John Hick -- Truth and the diversity of religions / Keith Ward -- A defense of religious exclusivism / Alvin Plantinga -- Religious relativism / Joseph Runzo -- Interreligious harmony / Tenzin Gyatso, the Dalai Lama -- Part two. The nature and attributes of God/ultimate reality -- God's nature and knowledge / Avicenna -- Divine simplicity, negative theology, and God-talk / Moses Maimonides -- Providence, foreknowledge, and free will / Boethius -- Omnipotence / Thomas Aquinas -- God as infinite, personal, and good / Ramanuja -- God incarnate and triune / Thomas V. Morris -- The openness of God / William Hasker -- Process theology: God in and for nature / Nicholas Rescher -- Brahman is all / Shankara -- The Tao / Lao Tzu -- Nirvana is ultimate reality / K.N. Jayatilleke --
Part three. Arguments for and against the existence of God -- The classical cosmological argument / Thomas Aquinas -- The Kalam cosmological argument / William Lane Craig -- A critique of cosmological arguments / J.L. Mackie -- A logical argument against a divine cause / Quentin Smith -- The classical design argument / William Paley -- A recent intelligent design argument / Michael J. Behe -- A recent fine-tuning argument / Robin Collins -- A critique of the design argument / David Hume -- The classical ontological argument / Anselm of Canterbury -- Gaunilo's response to Anselm / Gaunilo of Marmoutier -- A critique of the ontological argument / Immanuel Kant -- A recent ontological argument / Charles Hartshorne -- The moral argument / Paul Copan -- Religion as projection / Ludwig Feuerbach -- The noölogical argument / J.P. Moreland --
Part four. Faith, reason, and evidence -- The ethics of belief / W.K. Clifford -- The will to believe / William James -- Belief in God as properly basic / Alvin Plantinga -- The wager / Blaise Pascal -- Part five. Science, religion, and miracles -- The unreasonability of belief in miracles / David Hume -- A case for miracles / Richard Swinburne -- Naturalism and science / Alvin Plantinga -- Science and religion / Daniel C. Dennett -- Part six. The self and the human condition -- The fallen self / Augustine -- Human nature is naturally good / Mencius -- The noble human being / Friedrich Nietzsche -- The empty self / Nagarjuna -- Karma and the self in Zen Buddhism / D.T. Suzuki -- Part seven. Religious experience -- Mysticisim / William James -- Experiencing God / Julian of Norwich -- Satori/englightenment / D.T. Suzuki -- Religious ideas as wish fulfillments / Sigmund Freud -- The evidential value of religious experience / R. Douglas Geivett --
Part eight. The problem of evil -- The problem of evil / William L. Rowe -- A soul-making theodicy / John Hick -- A free will defense / Alvin Plantinga -- Horrendous evil / Marilyn McCord Adams -- Suffering: a Buddhist perspective / David J. Kalupahana -- Part nine. Death and the afterlife -- Immortality of the soul / Plato -- Resurrection of the body / Stephen T. Davis -- Death, dying, and the hiddenness of God / Paul K. Moser -- Why we need immortality / Charles Taliaferro -- Rebirth and the self / Sri Aurobindo -- Should the atheist fear death? / Robin le Poidevin -- Part ten. Recent trends -- Feminism in philosophy of religion / Pamela Sue Anderson -- Religion and a global ethic / Sallie King -- Religion and the environment / Roger S. Gottlieb.

"Tranferred to Digital Printing 2010"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

General introduction / Chad Meister -- Part One. Religious diversity -- Religious pluralism and the pluralistic hypothesis / John Hick -- Truth and the diversity of religions / Keith Ward -- A defense of religious exclusivism / Alvin Plantinga -- Religious relativism / Joseph Runzo -- Interreligious harmony / Tenzin Gyatso, the Dalai Lama -- Part two. The nature and attributes of God/ultimate reality -- God's nature and knowledge / Avicenna -- Divine simplicity, negative theology, and God-talk / Moses Maimonides -- Providence, foreknowledge, and free will / Boethius -- Omnipotence / Thomas Aquinas -- God as infinite, personal, and good / Ramanuja -- God incarnate and triune / Thomas V. Morris -- The openness of God / William Hasker -- Process theology: God in and for nature / Nicholas Rescher -- Brahman is all / Shankara -- The Tao / Lao Tzu -- Nirvana is ultimate reality / K.N. Jayatilleke --

Part three. Arguments for and against the existence of God -- The classical cosmological argument / Thomas Aquinas -- The Kalam cosmological argument / William Lane Craig -- A critique of cosmological arguments / J.L. Mackie -- A logical argument against a divine cause / Quentin Smith -- The classical design argument / William Paley -- A recent intelligent design argument / Michael J. Behe -- A recent fine-tuning argument / Robin Collins -- A critique of the design argument / David Hume -- The classical ontological argument / Anselm of Canterbury -- Gaunilo's response to Anselm / Gaunilo of Marmoutier -- A critique of the ontological argument / Immanuel Kant -- A recent ontological argument / Charles Hartshorne -- The moral argument / Paul Copan -- Religion as projection / Ludwig Feuerbach -- The noölogical argument / J.P. Moreland --

Part four. Faith, reason, and evidence -- The ethics of belief / W.K. Clifford -- The will to believe / William James -- Belief in God as properly basic / Alvin Plantinga -- The wager / Blaise Pascal -- Part five. Science, religion, and miracles -- The unreasonability of belief in miracles / David Hume -- A case for miracles / Richard Swinburne -- Naturalism and science / Alvin Plantinga -- Science and religion / Daniel C. Dennett -- Part six. The self and the human condition -- The fallen self / Augustine -- Human nature is naturally good / Mencius -- The noble human being / Friedrich Nietzsche -- The empty self / Nagarjuna -- Karma and the self in Zen Buddhism / D.T. Suzuki -- Part seven. Religious experience -- Mysticisim / William James -- Experiencing God / Julian of Norwich -- Satori/englightenment / D.T. Suzuki -- Religious ideas as wish fulfillments / Sigmund Freud -- The evidential value of religious experience / R. Douglas Geivett --

Part eight. The problem of evil -- The problem of evil / William L. Rowe -- A soul-making theodicy / John Hick -- A free will defense / Alvin Plantinga -- Horrendous evil / Marilyn McCord Adams -- Suffering: a Buddhist perspective / David J. Kalupahana -- Part nine. Death and the afterlife -- Immortality of the soul / Plato -- Resurrection of the body / Stephen T. Davis -- Death, dying, and the hiddenness of God / Paul K. Moser -- Why we need immortality / Charles Taliaferro -- Rebirth and the self / Sri Aurobindo -- Should the atheist fear death? / Robin le Poidevin -- Part ten. Recent trends -- Feminism in philosophy of religion / Pamela Sue Anderson -- Religion and a global ethic / Sallie King -- Religion and the environment / Roger S. Gottlieb.

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