Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings Book

I. The Nature and Attributes of God
Introduction
Necessary Being
The Divine Nature Exists through Itself, from Monologium, St. Anselm
God's Nature Cannot Be Separated from His Existence, from Summa Theologica, St. Thomas Aquinas
Divine Necessity, Robert M. Adams
Can God's Existence Be Disproved?, J. N. Findlay
Knowledge
Divine Foreknowledge and Freedom of the Will, from The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius
The Knowledge of God, from Summa Theologica, St. Thomas Aquinas
Divine Omniscience and Voluntary Action, Nelson Pike
Power
The Omnipotence of God, from Summa Theologica, St. Thomas Aquinas
Can God Do Evil?, from A Discourse Concerning the Being and Attributes of God, Samuel Clarke
Omnipotence, P. T. Geach
The Metaphysical Attributes
God Is Timeless, Immutable, and Impassible, from Proslogium and Monologium, St. Anselm
The Simplicity and Immutability of God, from Summa Theologica, St. Thomas Aquinas
The Divine Relativity, from The Divine Relativity, Charles Hartshorne
II. Arguments for the Existence of God
Introduction
The Ontological Argument
The Ontological Argument, from Proslogium, St. Anselm
The Perfect Island Objection, Gaunilo
Reply to Gaunilo, At. Anselm
The Supremely Perfect Being Must Exist, from Meditations on First Philosophy, Rene Descartes
Of the Impollibility of an Ontological Proof, from The Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant
A Modal Version of the Ontological Argument, from God, Freedom and Evil, Alvin Plantinga
The Cosmological Argument
The Existence of God and the Beginning of the World, from Summa Theologica, St. Thomas Aquinas
Infinite Causal Regression, Patterson Brown
The Cosmological Argument, from Discourse Concerning the Being and Attributes of God, Samuel Clarke
Some Objections to the Cosmological Argument, from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, David Hume
Two Criticisms of the Cosmological Argument, William L. Rowe
The Teleological Argument
The Evidence of Design, from Natural Theology, William Paley
Design and the Teleological Argument, from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, David Hume
The Wider Teleological Argument, from Metaphysics, Peter Van Inwagen
The Moral Argument
The Moral Argument, from Kant's Critique of Practical Reason and Other Works, Immanuel Kant
Kant on the Moral Argument, from The Miracle of Theism, J. L. Mackie
Religion and the Queerness of Mortality, George I. Mavrodes
III. The Problem of Evil
Introduction The Argument Reduced to Syllogistic Form, from Theodicy, Gottfried Leibniz
God and the Problem of Evil, from Dialogs Concerning Natural Religion, David Hume
Rebellion, from The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism, William L. Rowe
The "Soul-Making" Theodicy, from Evil and the God of Love, John Hick
The Free Will Defense, from God, Freedom, and Evil, Alvin Plantinga
IV. Objections to Traditional Theism
Introduction
Wittgenstein and Fideism
Religious Belief, from Lectures and Conversations, Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophy, Theology and the Reality of God, D. Z. Phillips
A Critique of Wittgensteinian Fideism, from The Autonomy of Religious Belief, Kai Nielsen
Religious Pluralism
The Pluralistic Hypotheses, from An Interpretation of Religion, John Hick
A Religious Theory of Religion, Peter Byrne
Worldviews, Criteria and Epistemic Circularity, William J. Wainwright
V. Mysticism and Religious Experience
Introduction
The Nature and Types of Religious and Mystical Experience
The Nature of Mysticism, from The Teachings of the Mystics, Walter Stace
Nature Mysticism, Soul Mysticism and Theistic Mysticism, from Mysticism: Sacred and Profane, R. C. Zaehner
Numinous Experience and Mystical Experience, from A Dialog of Religion, Ninian Smart
The Cognitive Status of Religious and Mystical Experience
The Appeal to Religious Experience, from Religion, Philosophy and Psychical Research, C. D. Broad
The Cognitive Status of Mystical Experience, from Mysticism: A Study of its Nature, Cognitive Value, and Moral Implications, William J. Wainwright
Is Religious Belief Rational?", William P. Alston
VI. Faith and Miracles
Introduction
Faith and the Need for Evidence
Reason and Revelation, from On the Truth of the Catholic Faith, St. Thomas Aquinas
The Wager, from Pensees, Blaise Pascal
The Logic of Pascal's Wager, Ian Hacking
The Ethics of Belief, from Lectures and Essays, W. K. Clifford
The Will to Believe, from The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, William James
Is Belief in God Properly Basic?, Alvin Plantinga
Toward a Sensible Evidentialism: On the Notion of "Needing Evidence", Stephen J. Wykstra
Miracles
Of Miracles, from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume
Miracles, R. G. Swinburne
Revelation and Miracle, from Systematic Theology, Paul Tillich
VII. Death and Immortality
Introduction The Soul, Anthony Quinton
The Problem of Life After Death, H. H. Price
A Future State, from A Discourse Concerning the Unalterable Obligations of Natural Religion, and the Truth and Certainty of the Christian Revelation, Samuel Clarke
Doubts About Immortality, from Two Essays on Suicide and Immortality, David Hume
The Dependency Argument, from Some Dogmas of Religion, J. M. E. McTaggart