A comprehensive and accessible guide to the key writings in the philosophy of religion. An invaluable resource for schools and colleges, and an ideal introduction for the general reader. Volumes One and Two are also available separately.

VOLUME I. Chapter 1: The Attributes of God. St. Thomas Aquinas: The Omnipotence of God. George Mavrodes: Some puzzles Concerning Omnipotence. J. N. Findlay: Disproof of God's Existence. Charles Hartshorne: Omnipotence as a Theological Mistake. Theodore Drange: Incompatible-Properties Arguments. Richard R. La Croix: The Paradox of Eden. Study Questions. Key Texts. Guide to Further Reading. Chapter 2: Arguments for God's Existence. St. Anselm: The Ontological Argument. Gaunilo of Marmoutier: On Behalf of the Fool. Immanuel Kant: The Impossibility of an Ontological Proof. St Thomas Aquinas: The Five Ways. F. C. Copleston: Aquinas' Five Ways. J. L. Mackie: Criticism of the Cosmological Argument. William Paley: The Watch and the Watchmaker. David Hume: The Argument from Analogy. Richard Dawkins: Why there is almost certainly no God. Robert Hambourger: An Argument from Design. Steven Cahn: The Irrelevance of the Proofs for God's Existence. Study Questions. Key Texts. Guide to Further Reading. Chapter 3: The Problem of Evil. St Augustine: Evil and the Privation of Good. Gottfried Leibniz: The Best of all Possible Worlds. David Hume: The Evidence of Evil. St Irenaeus: The Perfectability of Man. J. L. Mackie: Evil and Omnipotence. Alvin Plantinga: The Free Will Defence. John Hick: An Irenaean Theodicy. William Rowe: The Evidential Problem of Evil. Study Questions. Key Texts. Guide to Further Reading. Chapter 4: The Argument from Miracles. David Hume: Of Miracles. J.L. Mackie: Hume's Argument: Miracle and Testimony. Alastair McKinnon: Miracle and Paradox. Antony Flew: Hume's Critique of the Miraculous. Richard Swinburne: Miracles and Historical Evidence. Richard Swinburne: How the Existence of God Explains Miracles. R. F. Holland: The Contingency Definition of Miracles. Paul Tillich: Revelation and Miracle. Study Questions. Key Texts. Guide to Further Reading. Chapter 5: Morality and God. Plato: The Euthyphro Dilemma. John Henry Newman: Conscience as the Voice of God. Kai Nielsen: Ethics without God. Robert Adams: Divine Commands and a Loving God. A. C. Grayling: The Ethics of Divine Command. Study Questions. Key Texts. Guide to Further Reading. VOLUME II. Chapter 6: Life after Death. Plato: The Theory of Immortality. David Hume: Of the Immortality of the Soul. Bertrand Russell: Do We Survive Death?. John Hick: Immortality and the Resurrection Replica. Peter van Inwagen: The Possibility of Resurrection. Sigmund Freud: The Origin of Religious Ideas. Study Questions. Key Texts. Guide to Further Reading. Chapter 7: Religious Language (1): Forms of Religious Language. Moses Maimonides: The Negative Attributes of God. John Stuart Mill: A Critique of Equivocal Predication. St Thomas Aquinas: The Doctrine of Analogy. Paul Tillich: The Religious Symbol. Ian Ramsey: Models of God. R. B. Braithwaite: The Ethical Function of Religious Discourse. Mary Daly: Religious Language and Gender. Study Questions. Key Texts. Guide to Further Reading. Chapter 8: Religious Language (2): Linguistic Analysis and Verification. A.J. Ayer: Critique of Theology. Flew, Hare, Mitchell: Theology and Verification. John Hick: Eschatological Verification. Ludwig Wittgenstein: On Religious Belief. D. Z. Phillips: Prayer and Verification. Study Questions. Key Texts. Guide to Further Reading. Chapter 9: Reason and Belief. W. K. Clifford: The Ethics of Belief. William James: The Will to Believe. Alvin Plantinga: Is Belief in God Properly Basic?. William Alston: Is Religious Belief Rational?. Michael Martin: Faith and Foundationalism. Gary Gutting: Epistemological Egoism and Proper Basicality. Study Questions. Key Texts. Guide to Further Reading. Chapter 10: The Diversity of World Religions. Alvin Plantinga: A Defense of Religious Exclusivism. Karl Rahner: Christianity and the Non-Christian Religions. John Hick: Religious Pluralism. Keith Ward: Religious Diversity. Joseph Runzo: Pluralism vs Relativism. Study Questions. Key Texts. Guide to Further Reading.