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 as a single set.

Introduction: How to Use this Book; Chapter 1: The Attributes of God; Introduction; 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 M. Drange: Incompatible-Properties Arguments; Richard R. La Croix: The Paradox of Eden; Study Questions; Key Texts; Guide to Further Reading; Arguments for God's Existence; Introduction; Anselm: The Ontological Argument; Gaunilo of Marmoutier: On Behalf of the Fool; Immanuel Kant: The Impossibility of an Ontological Proof; 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: The Argument from Design; Steven M. Cahn: The Irrelevance of the Proofs for God's Existence; Study Questions; Key Texts; Guide to Further Reading; The Problem of Evil; Introduction; Augustine of Hippo: Evil and the Privation of Good; Gottfried Leibniz: The Best of all Possible Worlds; David Hume: The Evidence of Evil; Irenaeus: The Perfectibility 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; The Argument from Miracles; Introduction; David Hume: Of Miracles; J.L. Mackie: Hume's Argument: Miracles 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 Defi nition of Miracles; Paul Tillich: Revelation and Miracle; Study Questions; Key Texts; Guide to Further Reading; Morality and God; Introduction; 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; Index.