Logic of Religion Book

Contents

I. Religion as an Object of Philosophical Study....................1
II. Greek and Roman Insights into the Nature of Religion: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca....................14
III. Christian Conceptions of Belief: Early Church Fathers, Augustine....................25
IV. The Relation of Faith to Reason in Aquinas and the Reformers: Aquinas, Luther, Calvin....................36
V. Modern Interpretations of Religion, I: Hume, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard....................53
VI. Modern Interpretations of Religion, II: Mill, Marx, Dewey, Freud....................89
VII. Religion and the State in Western Democracies: Jacques Maritain....................113
VIII. Religion and the State under U.S. Constitution: John Courtney Murray....................133
IX. Oriental Religions and Similar Cultural Manifestations: Buddhism, Confucianism....................147
X. The Unity of Religious Experience....................159
Bibliography....................169
Index....................173