Readings in Philosophy of Religion – Ancient to Contemporary

Acknowledgments.
<p>General Introduction.</p>
<p>I The Philosophical Treatment of Religion.</p>
<p>Introduction.</p>
<p>1 The Nature of the Gods, Book 1 (Cicero).</p>
<p>II Classical Arguments for Theism.</p>
<p>Introduction.</p>
<p>A Teleological Arguments .</p>
<p>1 The Design Argument (Cicero).</p>
<p>2 The Fifth Way (Thomas Aquinas).</p>
<p>3 The Watch and the Watchmaker (William Paley).</p>
<p>4 Critique of the Design Argument (David Hume).</p>
<p>5 The Teleological Argument (Robin Collins).</p>
<p>6 The Argument from the Appearance of Design (J. J. C. Smart).</p>
<p>B Cosmological Arguments.</p>
<p>1 Plato s Cosmological Argument (Plato).</p>
<p>2 The Eternality of Motion and the Unmoved Mover (Aristotle).</p>
<p>3 The Kal m Cosmological Argument (Al–Ghazali).</p>
<p>4 The Existence and Oneness of God (Moses Maimonides).</p>
<p>5 The First Three Ways (Thomas Aquinas).</p>
<p>6 The Argument from Dependent Beings (Samuel Clarke).</p>
<p>7 Critique of the Cosmological Argument (David Hume).</p>
<p>C Ontological Arguments.</p>
<p>1 Anselm s Ontological Argument (Anselm).</p>
<p>2 Descartes s Ontological Argument (Ren&eacute; Descartes).</p>
<p>3 Kant s Critique of the Three Traditional Proofs (Immanuel Kant).</p>
<p>4 The Ontological Argument (Alvin Plantinga).</p>
<p>III: Other Approaches to Religious Belief.</p>
<p>Introduction.</p>
<p>A Experience and Revelation as Grounds for Religious Belief.</p>
<p>1 The Numinous (Rudolf Otto).</p>
<p>2 Mysticism and Religious Experience (William J Wainwright).</p>
<p>3 The Existence of God and the Existence of Homer: Rethinking Theism and Revelatory Claims (Sandra Menssen and Thomas D. Sullivan).</p>
<p>B Fideism.</p>
<p>1 Truth is Subjectivity (S&oslash;ren Kierkegaard).</p>
<p>2 Kierkegaard s Arguments against Objective Reasoning in Religion (Robert M Adams).</p>
<p>3 Lectures on Religious Belief (Ludwig Wittgenstein).</p>
<p>C Naturalistic Re–interpretations of Religious Belief.</p>
<p>1 Origin of Religion (David Hume).</p>
<p>2 The Essence of Religion in General (Ludwig Feuerbach).</p>
<p>3 The Future of an Illusion (Sigmund Freud).</p>
<p>IV: Who or What is God?.</p>
<p>Introduction.</p>
<p>1 On Being (Melissus of Samos).</p>
<p>2 The Final Cause (Aristotle).</p>
<p>3 The Divine Darkness (Pseudo–Dionysius the Areopagite).</p>
<p>4 Perfect Being (Anselm).</p>
<p>5 On the Trinity (Richard of St Victor).</p>
<p>6 Omnipotence (Peter Geach).</p>
<p>7 Omniscience and Immutability (Norman Kretzmann).</p>
<p>8 Atemporal Personhood (William L Craig).</p>
<p>V: Fate, Freedom, and Foreknowledge.</p>
<p>Introduction.</p>
<p>1 The Sea Battle Argument (Aristotle).</p>
<p>2 On Fate and On Divination (Cicero).</p>
<p>3 God s Timeless Knowing (Boethius).</p>
<p>4 Ockham on God s Foreknowledge, and Future Contingents (Marilyn Adams).</p>
<p>5 Middle Knowledge (William Hasker).</p>
<p>VI: Religion and Morality.</p>
<p>Introduction.</p>
<p>A Is Religion Needed for Morality?</p>
<p>1 God is the Measure of All Things (Plato).</p>
<p>2 The Moral Argument for the Existence of God (Immanuel Kant).</p>
<p>B Devine Command Theory and Devine Motivation Theory.</p>
<p>1 The Euthyphro Dilemma (Plato).</p>
<p>2 Questions on the Books of the Sentences (Pierre d Ailly).</p>
<p>3 Lectures on Romans (Martin Luther).</p>
<p>4 Divine Commands (Robert M Adams).</p>
<p>5 The Virtues of God and the Foundations of Ethics (Linda Zagzebski).</p>
<p>C Natural Law.</p>
<p>1 Selections from Treatise on Law (Thomas Aquinas).</p>
<p>VII: The Problem of Evil.</p>
<p>Introduction.</p>
<p>1 God is Not the Author of Evil (Plato).</p>
<p>2 On the Anger of God (Lactantius).</p>
<p>3 That Which Is, Is Good (Augustine).</p>
<p>4 On the Free Choice of the Will (Augustine).</p>
<p>5 Formal Summary of the Theodicy (Gottfried Leibniz).</p>
<p>6 Myth of the Goddess Pallas (Gottfried Leibniz).</p>
<p>7 Evil and Omnipotence (J L Mackie).</p>
<p>8 The Free Will Defense (Alvin Plantinga).</p>
<p>9 Soul–making Theodicy (John Hick).</p>
<p>10 Friendly Atheism, Skeptical Theism, and the Problem of Evil (William L Rowe).</p>
<p>11 Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God (Marilyn Adams).</p>
<p>VIII: Death and Immortality.</p>
<p>Introduction.</p>
<p>1 Death is Nothing to Us (Epicurus).</p>
<p>2 Death (Thomas Nagel).</p>
<p>B Life after Death.</p>
<p>1 The Separation of the Soul from the Body (Plato).</p>
<p>2 The Future Life (Averroes (Ibn Rushd)).</p>
<p>3 The Possibility of Immortality (Ren&eacute; Descartes).</p>
<p>4 Personal Identity and Consciousness (John Locke).</p>
<p>5 Do We Survive Death (Bertrand Russell)?</p>
<p>6 Religious and Near–death Experiences in Relation to Belief in a Future Life (Paul Badham).</p>
<p>IX: The Diversity of Religions.</p>
<p>Introduction.</p>
<p>1 Religious Pluralism and Salvation (John Hick).</p>
<p>2 The Bodhgaya Interview (1981) (The Dalai Lama).</p>
<p>3 Christianity and the Non–Christian Religions (Karl Rahner).</p>
<p>4 Self–trust and the Diversity of Religions (Linda Zagzebski).</p>
<p>X: Faith, Reason, and the Ethics of Belief.</p>
<p>Introduction.</p>
<p>A Faith and Reason.</p>
<p>1 How Justin Found Philosophy (Justin Martyr).</p>
<p>2 Prescriptions against the Heretics (Tertullian).</p>
<p>3 In What Respect Philosophy Contributes to the Comprehension of Divine Truth (Clement of Alexandria).</p>
<p>4 The Decisive Treatise, Determining the Nature of the Connection between Religion and Philosophy (Averroes (Ibn Rushd)).</p>
<p>5 Faith and Reason (Thomas Aquinas).</p>
<p>6 Belief in God is Natural (John Calvin).</p>
<p>7 Faith, Reason, and Enthusiasm (John Locke).</p>
<p>8 Return to Reason: The Irrationality of Evidentialism (Kelly James Clark).</p>
<p>B Pragmatism and the Ethics of Belief.</p>
<p>1 The Wager (Blaise Pascal).</p>
<p>2 Pascalian Wagering (Thomas V Morris).</p>
<p>3 The Ethics of Belief (W K Clifford).</p>
<p>4 The Will to Believe (William James).</p>
<p>XI: Science, Religion, and Naturalism.</p>
<p>Introduction.</p>
<p>A Miracles.</p>
<p>1 Miracles (Thomas Aquinas).</p>
<p>2 A Discourse of Miracles (John Locke).</p>
<p>3 Of Miracles (David Hume).</p>
<p>4 David Hume and the Probability of Miracles (George I Mavrodes).</p>
<p>B Science, Religion, and Naturalism.</p>
<p>1 Letter to Castelli (Galileo Galilei).</p>
<p>2 Signs of Intelligence (William A Dembski).</p>
<p>3 Atheism and Evolution (Daniel C Dennett).</p>
<p>4 Darwin, Design, and Divine Providence (John F Haught).</p>
<p>5 How Naturalism Implies Skepticism (Alvin Plantinga).</p>
<p>6 A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand: Plantinga on the Self–defeat of Evolutionary Naturalism (Timothy O Connor).</p>