Philosophy of religion : selected readings / edited by Michael Peterson [and others].
| Other author | Peterson, Michael L., 1950- |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 2nd ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. |
| Description | x, 630 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Religious experiences / Theresa of Jesus -- Religious experience as the root of religion / William James -- Religious experience as perception of God / William P. Alston -- Religious experiences as interpretative accounts / Wayne Proudfoot -- Critique of religious experience / Michael Martin -- A phenomenological account of religious experience / Merold Westphal -- The harmony of reason and revelation / Thomas Aquinas -- The harmony of philosophy and the Qurʼan / Ibn Rushd -- The wager / Blaise Pascal -- The ethics of belief / William Clifford -- The will to believe / William James -- Truth is subjectivity / Søren Kierkegaard -- Soft rationalism / William J. Abraham -- God's necessary existence / John Hick -- Negative theology / Moses Maimonides -- God is omnipotent / Thomas Aquinas -- Some puzzles concerning omnipotence / George I. Mavrodes -- Divine omniscience and voluntary action / Nelson Pike -- God is timeless / Boethius -- God is everlasting / Nicholas Wolterstorff -- God is creative-responsive love / John B. Cobb and David Ray Griffin -- Atman is Brahman / The Upanishads -- The concept of God and feminist critique / Sarah Coakley -- The classical ontological argument / Anselm -- Critique of Anselm's argument / Gaunilo -- A contemporary modal version of the ontological argument / Alvin Plantinga -- The classical cosmological argument / Thomas Aquinas -- A contemporary version of the cosmological argument / Richard Taylor -- The Kalam cosmological argument / J.P. Moreland -- Critique of the cosmological argument / J.L. Mackie -- The anthropic teleological argument / L. Stafford Betty with Bruce Cordell -- A naturalistic account of the universe / Paul Davies -- The moral argument / C.S. Lewis -- Evil is privation of good / Augustine -- Evil makes a strong case against God's existence / David Hume -- Evil and omnipotence / J.L. Mackie -- The free will defense / Alvin Plantinga -- Soul-making theodicy / John Hick -- The evidential argument from evil / William Rowe -- The Reformed objection to natural theology / Alvin Plantinga -- Experience, proper basicality, and belief in God / Robert Pargetter -- The case of the intellectually sophisticated theist / William Hasker -- Reformed epistemology and Hick's religious pluralism / David Basinger -- Feminism and religious epistemology / Sarah Coakley -- The doctrine of analogy / Thomas Aquinas -- The falsification debate / Antony Flew and Basil Mitchell -- Religious language as symbolic / Paul Tillich -- Sexism and God-talk / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Speaking literally of God / William P. Alston -- The true Tao is unspeakable / Lao Tsu -- The evidence for miracles is weak / David Hume -- Miracles and historical evidence / Richard Swinburne -- Miracles and testimony / J.L. Mackie -- The soul survives and functions after death / H.H. Price -- The soul needs a brain to continue to function / Richard Swinburne -- Problems with accounts of life after death / Linda Badham -- Resurrection of the person / John Hick -- Rebirth / Sri Aurobindo -- Two separate domains / Stephen Jay Gould -- Science discredits religion / Richard Dawkins -- Theology and scientific methodology / Nancey Murphy -- Buddhism and other religions / Dalai Lama -- The uniqueness of religious doctrines / Paul Griffith -- Religious inclusivism / Karl Rahner -- Religious pluralism / John Hick -- Which God ought we to obey? / Alasdair MacIntyre -- Ethics without religion / Kai Nielson -- Ethics and natural law / Thomas Aquinas -- Jesus Christ was fully God and fully human / Thomas Morris -- The concept of revelation / George Mavrodes -- Why petition God? / Eleonore Stump. |
| Abstract | This anthology of readings in philosophy of religion examines the field through a selection of classic and contemporary works organized into thirteen thematic sections. Each section begins with an introduction, revised for this edition, to the central topic and ends with updated suggested further readings. Included in the works new to second edition are selections from John Locke, Moses Maimonides, the Upanishads, Lao Tsu, The Dalai Lama, Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins, Sarah Coakley, Anthony Flew, and George Mavrodes. The anthology works well as a stand-alone source for courses in the philosophy of religion; it is also an ideal companion to the editors' textbook, Reason and Religious Belief, Second Edition (OUP 1998) because the books have a common topical structure. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 00045654 |
| ISBN | (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780195135466 |
| ISBN | 0195135466 |