Paperback: 648 pages
Publisher: Routledge
Publish Date: Jan 16, 2009
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415988624
ISBN-13: 978-0415988629
Arguing About Religion is an ideal collection for students interested in contemporary philosophy of religion and related disciplines. This volume brings together primary readings from over 40 of the world’s leading philosophers of religion, covering a broad range of issues. Set alongside these works of academic philosophy are excerpts from controversial popular works by Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins, in order to introduce the philosophical issues in a way that demonstrates their relevance to everyday life and sets them in the context of contemporary cultural discourse.
Covering a broad range of issues, the volume is divided into six parts: methodological issues in philosophy of religion, God’s nature and existence, evil and divine hiddenness, providence and interaction, the afterlife, and religion and contemporary life.
Featuring lucid general and section introductions and a glossary by volume editor Kevin Timpe, Arguing About Religion is an ideal starting point for students coming to philosophy of religion for the first time.
Introduction to Part 1
1 Norman Kretzmann The Nature of Natural Theology
2 Scott MacDonald What is Philosophical Theology?
3 Alvin Plantinga The Reformed Objection to Natural Theology
4 Richard Swinburne Rational Religious Belief
5 John Hick Religious Pluralism and Salvation
6 Keith Ward Truth and Diversity of Religions
7 Timothy O’Connor Religious Pluralism
Introduction to Part 2
8 Peter van Inwagen Necessary Being: The Ontological Argument
9 Alexander R. Pruss Recent Progress on the Cosmological Argument
10 Wes Morriston A Critical Examination of the Kalam Cosmological Argument
11 Robin Collins A Scientific Argument for the Existence of God: The Fine-Tuning Design Argument
12 Elliott Sober The Design Argument
13 Louis P. Pojman A Critique of the Argument from Religious Experience
14 C. Stephen Layman Good and the Moral Order
Introduction to Part 3
15 Peter van Inwagen The Argument from Evil
16 Whitley R. P. Kaufman Karma, Rebirth, and the Problem of Evil
17 Richard Swinburne Natural Evil and the Possibility of Knowledge
18 William L. Rowe The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism
19 William P. Alston The Inductive Argument from Evil and the Human Cognitive Condition
20 Peter van Inwagen The Hiddenness of God
21 Michael J Murray Coercion and the Hiddenness of God
22 Robert P. Lovering Hiddenness and Inculpable Ignorance
Introduction to Part 4
23 Derek Pereboom Free Will, Evil, and Divine Providence
24 William Lane Craig The Middle-Knowledge View
25 William Hasker The Openness of God
26 John Sanders Why Simple Forknowledge Offers No More Providential Control than The Openness of God
27 David P. Hunt The Providential Advantage of Divine Forknowledge
28 Norman Kretzmann Why Would God Create Anything At All?
29 Eleonore Stump Petitionary Prayer
30 Kevin Timpe Prayers for the Past
Introduction to part 5
31 Kevin J. Corcoran Dualism, Materialism, and the Problem of Postmodern Survival
32 Lynne Rudder Baker Persons and the Metaphysics of Resurrection
33 Roger T. Ames Death as Transformation in Classical Daoism
34 David Lewis Divine Evil
35 Thomas Talbott The Doctrine of Everlasting Punishment
36 Eleonore Stump Dante’s Hell, Aquinas’s Moral Theory, and The Love of God
37 James F. Sennett Is There Freedom in Heaven?
Introduction to part 6
38 Daniel Dennett Breaking the Spell
39 Richard Dawkins The God Delusion
40 Alister McGrath Dawkins’ God
41 Phillip Kitcher Born-Again Creationism
42 Phillip E. Johnson Evolution as Dogma: The Establishment of Naturalism
43 Robert T. Pennock Why Creationism Should Not Be Taught in the Public Schools
44 Alvin Plantinga Creation and Evolution: A Modest Proposal
45 Paul J. Weithman Theism, Law, and Politics
“This collection fits perfectly with the aim of Routledge’s ‘Arguing About…’ series: it brings together excellent essays on central issues in the philosophy of religion, but the topics and essays are fresher and perhaps a bit edgier than those in a ‘standard’ philosophy of religion anthology. The book is at the same time an accurate representation of the cutting edge of the field at this point and also a challenging, probing, and provocative collection. Highly recommended!”
— John Martin Fischer (University of California Riverside)
