Philosophy of religion Book

Nothing too special, just another introduction to philosophy of religion to add on to the dozens of already existing ones.

This book does have one peculiarity and that is that because the author is an atheist, he is determined to end off every chapter with the conclusion that so and so argument for the existence of God therefore fails. Now at times do agree that some arguments fail however the reason for its failure is far more comprehensive then how the author is trying to brush-off.

For example, the central debate in the Leibnizian cosmological argument from contingency is to prove the validity of the principle of sufficient reason that the argument invokes. It would have been much more honest, for Rowe, to either prove his case against it or not bring up his opinion on it. Instead, he simply asserts that we have no good reason to believe it, therefore the argument fails.

This problem is found in almost every chapter from the kalam argument to the ontological argument. For that fact alone I give him two stars. Why not one? Because some chapters were given respect to like the design argument, the argument from evil, and some of the ending chapters.

I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone who wants to honestly learn what theists believe and their arguments proving so. This book did injustice to the rich legecy of this field of enquiry.