Exploring the Philosophy of Religion Book

	Preface to the Fourth Edition
Ch. 1	Religious Experience	1
	Introduction: Philosophy and Religion	1
	Mystical Experience	6
	Mysticism	10
	The Experience of the Holy	17
	The Idea of the Holy	21
	The Experience of the Eternal Thou	30
	I and Thou	34
	Intuitive Ways of Knowing	38
	Intuition and Intellect	39
Ch. 2	Arguments for God's Existence	45
	Introduction: The Existence of God	45
	The Ontological Argument	50
	The Most Perfect Being	55
	The Cosmological Arguments	59
	The Argument from Contingency	64
	The Design Argument	74
	The Argument from Design	77
	The Moral Argument	82
	The Argument from Morality	85
Ch. 3	Faith and Reason	93
	Introduction: Opinion, Belief, and Knowledge	93
	Belief and Falsification	99
	The Falsification Debate	103
	The Logic of Belief	113
	On Obstinancy in Belief	117
	Truth Is Subjectivity	126
	Objective and Subjective Reflection	130
	Will and Belief	135
	The Will to Believe	142
Ch. 4	Religious Language	156
	Introduction: Religion and Language	156
	The Verification of Religious Language	159
	A Discussion on Religious Language	163
	Models for Theological Discourse	174
	Talking of God: Models, Ancient and Modern	178
	The Metaphorical Use of Language	189
	The Metaphorical Process	192
	Religious Language and Gender	201
	Beyond God the Father	203
Ch. 5	The Problem of Evil	211
	Introduction: God and Evil	211
	The "Vale of Soul-Making" Theodicy	218
	Evil and the God of Love	221
	Evil and the Power of God	228
	Divine Omnipotence	231
	Theodicy in Process Thought	238
	God in Process	241
	Karma and Evil	249
	Karma in Hindu Thought	251
Ch. 6	Religion and Human Destiny	259
	Introduction: Religion and Death	259
	The Finality of Death	263
	Do We Survive Death?	265
	Jewish Reflections on Death	269
	The World Beyond the Grave	274
	Immortality and Resurrection	279
	Human Destiny: Immortality and Resurrection	282
	Death in Buddhism	292
	The Doctrine of No-Soul: Anatta	294
Ch. 7	Religion and Life	301
	Introduction: Religion and Life	301
	Life's Goal Is to Obey God's Will	305
	Moral Obligation	307
	Life's Goal Is to Achieve Greatness	310
	The Joyful Wisdom	313
	To Know God Is to Live	316
	A Confession	317
	A World Without God	324
	Reality and God	326
	Biographical Summaries	334
	Glossary	337
	Index	343