Philosophy of religion : an anthology / [edited by] Louis P. Pojman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pojman, Louis P.

Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

x, 582 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Belmont, CA : Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, [2003]

Summary:

The most comprehensive text in its field, this anthology includes over 70 articles in 10 areas of philosophy of religion: Traditional Arguments for the Existence of God, Religious Experience, The Problem of Evil, The Attributes of God, Miracles and Revelation, Death and Immortality, Faith and Reason, Religious Pluralism, and Ethics and Religion. New to this edition are articles in the new Part VIII, "Science, Religion, and Evolution." The articles are arranged in a coherent framework, with the presentation of each area progressing from the classical to the contemporary and treated in a dialectic (pro and con) fashion.

Contents:

Part I Traditional Arguments for the Existence of God 1

I.A The Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God 2

I.A.1 Thomas Aquinas: The Five Ways 3

I.A.2 Samuel Clarke: The Argument from Contingency 5

I.A.3 Paul Edwards: A Critique of the Cosmological Argument 6

I.A.4 William Rowe: An Examination of the Cosmological Argument 15

I.A.5 William Lane Craig: The Kalam Cosmological Argument 24

I.A.6 William Lane Craig: Scientific Confirmation of the Cosmological Argument 30

I.A.7 Paul Draper: A Critique of the Kalam Cosmological Argument 42

I.B The Teleological Argument for the Existence of God 48

I.B.1 William Paley: The Watch and the Watchmaker 50

I.B.2 David Hume: A Critique of the Design Argument 52

I.B.3 Richard Swinburne: The Argument from Design 59

I.C The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God 69

I.C.1 St. Anselm: The Ontological Argument 70

I.C.2 Immanuel Kant: A Critique of the Ontological Argument 73

I.C.3 Norman Malcolm: Anselm's Two Ontological Arguments 76

Part II The Argument from Religious Experience 87

II.1 Selections of Mystical Experiences 92

II.2 William James: Mysticism 93

II.3 Sigmund Freud: The Future of an Illusion 108

II.4 C. D. Broad: The Argument from Religious Experience 113

II.5 Louis P. Pojman: A Critique of the Argument from Religious Experience 121

II.6 William P. Alston: Religious Experience and Religious Belief 130

Part III The Problem of Evil 137

III.1 David Hume: The Argument from Evil 141

III.2 Gottfried Leibniz: Theodicy: A Defense of Theism 146

III.3 John Hick: Evil and Soul-Making 152

III.4 Edward H. Madden and Peter H. Hare: A Critique of Hick's Theodicy 156

III.5 J. L. Mackie: Evil and Omnipotence 160

III.6 Alvin Plantinga: The Free Will Defense 167

III.7 William Rowe: The Inductive Argument from Evil Against the Existence of God 186

III.8 Paul Draper: Evolution and the Problem of Evil 193

Part IV The Attributes of God 207

IV.A Time and Eternity 208

IV.A.1 Stephen T. Davis: Temporal Eternity 209

IV.A.2 Hugh J. McCann: The God Beyond Time 216

IV.B God's Omniscience and Human Freedom 231

IV.B.1 St. Augustine: Divine Foreknowledge and Human Free Will 233

IV.B.2 Nelson Pike: God's Foreknowledge and Human Free Will Are Incompatible 235

IV.B.3 Alvin Plantinga: God's Foreknowledge and Human Free Will Are Compatible 245

IV.C God's Omnipotence 250

IV.C.1 St. Thomas Aquinas: Is God's Power Limited? 251

IV.C.2 George Mavrodes: Some Puzzles Concerning Omnipotence 253

IV.C.3 Harry Frankfurt: The Logic of Omnipotence 255

Part V Miracles and Revelation 257

V.1 David Hume: Against Miracles 261

V.2 Richard Swinburne: For the Possibility of Miracles 269

V.3 J. L. Mackie: Miracles and Testimony 276

V.4 Richard Purtill: Miracles: What If They Happen? 283

V.5 Richard Swinburne: Miracles and Revelation 293

Part VI Death and Immortality 303

VI.1 Plato: Immortality of the Soul 310

VI.2 Bertrand Russell: The Finality of Death 314

VI.3 John Hick: Immortality and Resurrection 317

VI.4 Jeffrey Olen: Personal Identity and Life After Death 323

VI.5 Prasannatma Das: A Hindu Theory of Life, Death, and Reincarnation 333

Part VII Faith and Reason 337

VII.A Challenges to Faith and Responses 338

VII.A.1 Antony Flew, R. M. Hare, and Basil Mitchell: Theology and Falsification 339

VII.A.2 Michael Scriven: The Presumption of Atheism 344

VII.A.3 C. S. Lewis: On Obstinacy in Belief 352

VII.B Pragmatic Justification of Religious Belief 359

VII.B.1 Blaise Pascal: The Wager 361

VII.B.2 W. K. Clifford: The Ethics of Belief 363

VII.B.3 William James: The Will to Believe 368

VII.C Fideism: Faith Without/Against Reason 377

VII.C.1 Soren Kierkegaard: Subjectivity Is Truth 378

VII.C.2 Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Lecture on Religious Belief 387

VII.C.3 Norman Malcolm: The Groundlessness of Belief 391

VII.C.4 Michael Martin: A Critique of Fideism 399

VII.D Rationality and Justified Religious Belief 404

VII.D.1 John Hick: Rational Theistic Belief Without Proof 405

VII.D.2 Alvin Plantinga: Religious Belief Without Evidence 414

VII.D.3 Michael Martin: A Critique of Plantinga's Religious Epistemology 429

VII.D.4 Louis P. Pojman: Faith, Hope, and Doubt 436

Part VIII Science, Religion, and Evolution 447

VIII.1 Richard Dawkins: Science Versus Religion 451

VIII.2 Duane Gish: Creationism Versus Evolution 455

VIII.3 A. David Kline: Theories, Facts, and Gods: Philosophical Aspects of the Creation-Evolution Controversy 460

VIII.4 Langdon Gilkey: Evolution and Creation Reconciled 465

VIII.5 Alvin Plantinga: The Christian Argument Against Evolutionary Naturalism 475

VIII.6 Ernest Sosa: Plantinga's Evolutionary Meditations 484

VIII.7 Alvin Plantinga: Reply to Sosa 492

Part IX Religious Pluralism 497

IX.1 John Hick: Religious Pluralism and Ultimate Reality 499

IX.2 Alvin Plantinga: A Defense of Religious Exclusivism 507

IX.3 David Basinger: Hick's Religious Pluralism and "Reformed Epistemology"

A Middle Ground 521

IX.4 Dalai Lama: Buddhism, Christianity, and the Prospects for World Religion 528

IX.5 Joseph Runzo: God, Commitment, and Other Faiths: Pluralism Versus Relativism 533

Part X Religion and Ethics 547

X.1 Plato: Morality and Religion 549

X.2 Patrick Nowell-Smith: Morality: Religious and Secular 550

X.3 George Mavrodes: Religion and the Queerness of Morality 561

X.4 Bertrand Russell: A Free Man's Worship 569

X.5 Lois Hope Walker: Religion Gives Meaning to Life 574.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 578-582).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

ISBN:

0534543642

OCLC:

50148376