Philosophy of religion Book

Note that I read most of the essays of this book, but not all. I read it in order to support my wife while she took a college course in Religious Philosophy. As a side note: try very hard to avoid taking a course in religious philosophy. They just haven't worked it all out yet. All they seem to do is to beat up on Christian ideas. I am not a Christian in any sense whatsoever. I am, in fact, an Orthodox Jew. I am not here to defend Christianity, but I get torqued off when I see a religious group being attacked simply because they are a convenient target. I'm sure you understand.

This is a college textbook collection of primary source essays on the philosophy of religion. It mostly concentrates on an analysis of Christianity. It includes some essays on Buddhism, but with very little analysis. Judaism is touched upon occasionally, again without much analysis. It seems that the purpose of the book is to provide a baseline of texts that a professor can have a class read between class lectures.

If you are taking an online course, this book should be used in conjunction with "Reason and Religious Belief: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion". If you are on your own, I suppose any edition would work, but my wife's college course is using edition 5. In edition 5, they added a couple of chapters, updated the examples, and changed some of the study questions they asked compared to the 1st edition. Just so you know.

The college course is over. I doubt I will be reading this book again.