Philosophy of Religion: The Big Questions Book

	General Introduction
	Acknowledgments
Pt. 1	What Would Anything have to be Like in Order to be God?	1
	Omnipotence
1	From Summa Contra Gentiles	7
2	The Paradox of the Stone	9
	Omniscience
3	On Ockham's Way Out	13
	Perfection
4	The Problem of Divine Perfection and Freedom	28
5	How an Unsurpassable Being Can Create a Surpassable World	35
	Eternity
6	Eternity	42
7	From God, Time, and Knowledge	53
Pt. 2	Can we Show by Reason that there is a God?	59
	Ontological Argument
8	From Proslogion	65
9	From Reply to Anselm	66
10	Necessary Being: the Ontological Argument	69
	Cosmological Argument
11	The Cosmological Argument	84
	Teleological Argument
12	From Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion	94
13	The Argument from Design	100
14	God's Utility Function	109
15	From New Perspectives on Old-time Religion	114
	The Evolutionary Anti-Naturalism Argument
16	Is Naturalism Irrational?	125
	The Argument from Religious Experience
17	From The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila	139
18	Perceiving God	142
Pt. 3	Doesn't all the Evil in the World Show that there is no God?	151
	The Problem
19	The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism	157
20	Pain and Pleasure: an Evidential Problem for Theists	164
	Defense
21	On Being Evidentially Challenged	176
	Theodicies
22	From Theodicy in Islamic Thought	190
23	From the Book of Doctrines and Beliefs	192
24	The Magnitude, Duration, and Distribution of Evil: a Theodicy	195
25	Natural Evil and the Possibility of Knowledge	210
26	An Irenaean Theodicy	222
27	The Problem of Evil	227
	Alternative Perspectives
28	Coercion and the Hiddenness of God	241
29	Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God	250
30	The Theology of Liberation in Africa	257
Pt. 4	What is the Relation of Reason to Religious Belief?	263
	Evidentialism
31	The Ethics of Belief	269
32	It is Wrong, Everywhere, Always, and for Anyone, to Believe Anything upon Insufficient Evidence	273
	Religious Belief as Basic
33	Warranted Belief in God	285
	Pascal's Wager
34	From Pensees	298
35	The Recombinant DNA Debate: a Difficulty for Pascalian-Style Wagering	300
36	A Central Theistic Argument	302
Pt. 5	Can we Make Sense of Religious Doctrines and Practices?	313
	Miracles
37	Of Miracles	320
38	From A Dialogue Concerning Heresies	330
39	Miracles and (Christian) Theism	334
	Prayer
40	Petitionary Prayer	353
	Soul
41	The Future of the Soul	367
42	From Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain	375
43	Materialism and Survival	379
	Revelation
44	Are We Entitled?	387
Pt. 6	Can Morality have a Religious Foundation?	399
45	Morality: Religious and Secular	403
46	Divine Command Metaethics Modified Again	412
47	Abraham, Isaac, and Euthyphro: God and the Basis of Morality	417
Pt. 7	How Should Religious, Gender, and Ethnic Diversity Influence our thinking about Religion?	429
48	On Non-Jewish Religions	435
49	Religious Diversity and the Epistemic Justification of Religious Belief	441
50	What's the Difference? Knowledge and Gender in (Post)Modern Philosophy of Religion	454
51	Women's Experience Revisited: the Challenge of the Darker Sister	467
52	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass	472
53	The Value of African Religious Beliefs and Practices for Christian Theology	475
	Index	481