CiNii Books - Philosophy of religion : selected readings

Incorporating twelve new readings, Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings, Fifth Edition, presents eighty-two selections grouped into fourteen thematic sections, providing instructors with great flexibility in organizing their courses. While it deals primarily with the Western and analytic traditions in philosophy, the book also incorporates readings representing continental, Asian, and Islamic perspectives. The selections are enhanced by substantial section introductions, study questions, suggested readings, and an extensive glossary at the end of the book. The fifth edition includes a new section, "Atheism and Nonreligious Approaches to Religion," featuring work by Paul Draper, Ludwig Feuerbach, Michael Martin, Michael Peterson, and Michael Ruse. Seven other additional selections appear throughout the text. An excellent stand-alone text for courses in the philosophy of religion, Philosophy of Religion, Fifth Edition, is also a perfect companion to the editors' textbook, Reason and Religious Belief, Fifth Edition (OUP, 2012), as the two books share the same topical organization.Package Philosophy of Religion, Fifth Edition, with Reason and Religious Belief, Fifth Edition, and save your students 20% (package ISBN 978-0-19-935952-3). To order, please contact your Oxford sales representative or call 800.280.0280.

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*=New to this Edition Preface: INTRODUCTION: Exploring the Philosophy of Religion PART ONE: THE NATURE OF RELIGION Daniel C. Dennett: An Evolutionary Account of Religion Buddha: Buddhist Nonrealism Roger Trigg: A Defense of Religious Realism D. Z. Phillips: The Meaning of Religious Beliefs Is Their Use PART TWO: RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE St. Teresa of Jesus: Religious Experiences William James: Religious Experience as Feelings Forming the Root of Religion William P. Alston: Religious Experience as Perception of God Wayne Proudfoot: Religious Experiences as Interpretative Accounts Michael Martin: Critique of Religious Experience Merold Westphal: A Phenomenological Account of Religious Experience Hakuun Yasutani Roshi: * Religious Experience Brings About Awakening PART THREE: FAITH AND REASON Thomas Aquinas: The Harmony of Reason and Revelation Blaise Pascal: The Wager William Clifford: The Ethics of Belief William James: The Will to Believe Soren Kierkegaard: Truth Is Subjectivity C. Stephen Evans: Critical Dialog in Philosophy of Religion PART FOUR: ARGUMENTS ABOUT GOD'S EXISTENCE St. Anselm: The Classical Ontological Argument Gaunilo: Critique of Anselm's Argument Alvin Plantinga: A Contemporary Modal Version of the Ontological Argument Thomas Aquinas: The Classical Cosmological Argument Bruce R. Reichenbach: The Cosmological Argument from Contingency William Lane Craig: The Kalam Cosmological Argument J. L. Mackie: Critique of the Cosmological Argument William Paley: The Analogical Teleological Argument David Hume: Critique of the Analogical Teleological Argument Robin Collins: * The Anthropic Teleological Argument C.S. Lewis: * A Moral Argument for God's Existence PART FIVE: KNOWING GOD WITHOUT ARGUMENTS Alvin Plantinga: The Reformed Objection to Natural Theology Robert Pargetter: Experience, Proper Basicality, and Belief in God William Hasker: The Case of the Intellectually Sophisticated Theist PART SIX: THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES John Hick: God's Necessary Existence Moses Maimonides: Negative Theology Thomas Aquinas: God Is Omnipotent George I. Mavrodes: Some Puzzles Concerning Omnipotence Nelson Pike: Divine Omniscience and Voluntary Action Boethius: God Is Timeless Nicholas Wolterstorff: God Is Everlasting The Upanishads: Atman Is Brahman PART SEVEN: DIVINE ACTION Paul Helm: Providence: Risky or Risk-Free? David Basinger: Middle Knowledge and Classical Christian Thought Robert Merrihew Adams: An Objection to Middle Knowledge J. R. Lucas: The Vulnerability of God John B. Cobb and David Ray Griffin: God Is Creative-Responsive Love PART EIGHT: THE PROBLEM OF EVIL David Hume: Evil Makes a Strong Case against God's Existence Gottfried Leibniz: Best of All Possible Worlds Theodicy J. L. Mackie: Evil and Omnipotence Alvin Plantinga: The Free Will Defense John Hick: Soul-Making Theodicy William Rowe: The Evidential Argument from Evil Marilyn McCord Adams: Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God Mohammed Ghaly: * Evil and Suffering in Islam * PART NINE: ATHEISM AND NONRELIGIOUS APPROACHES TO RELIGION Ludwig Feuerbach: * God Is a Projection of Human Nature Michael Martin: * Conflicts Between the Divine Attributes Paul Draper: * Pain, Pleasure, and the Evidence for Atheism Michael Ruse: * The Naturalist Challenge to Religion Michael Peterson: * The Encounter Between Atheistic Naturalism and Christian Theism PART TEN: MIRACLES Stephen T. Davis: Is it Possible to Know That Jesus Was Raised from the Dead? David Hume: The Evidence for Miracles Is Weak J. L. Mackie: Miracles and Testimony Richard Swinburne: Miracles and Historical Evidence PART ELEVEN: LIFE AFTER DEATH H. H. Price: The Soul Survives and Functions after Death Richard Swinburne: The Soul Needs a Brain to Continue to Function Linda Badham: Problems with Accounts of Life after Death John Hick: Resurrection of the Person Anonymous: The Buddhist View of Rebirth Sri Aurobindo: A Hindu View of Rebirth PART TWELVE: RELIGION AND SCIENCE Stephen Jay Gould: Two Separate Domains Richard Dawkins: Science Discredits Religion William Dembski: Reinstating Design within Science Phillip Kitcher: At the Mercy of Chance? Alvin Plantinga: * Naturalism and Science Are Incompatible John Polkinghorne: The Universe as Creation PART THIRTEEN: RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY Dalai Lama: Buddhism and Other Religions Paul Griffiths: The Universality and Uniqueness of Religious Doctrines Karl Rahner: Religious Inclusivism John Hick: Religious Pluralism PART FOURTEEN: RELIGION AND MORALITY Plato: * The Relation of Good to the Divine Will Alasdair MacIntyre: Which God Ought We to Obey? Thomas Aquinas: Ethics and Natural Law Mengzi (Mencius): * A Confucian View of Morality Jean-Paul Sartre: Ethics Without Religion Glossary:

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