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Preface to the Fourth Edition | |
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Preface to the First Edition | |
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Introduction | |
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Thinking About God: The Search for the Ultimate | |
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Defining Religion | |
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What Is Philosophy of Religion? | |
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The God of Theism | |
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The Religious Ambiguity of Life | |
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Our Task | |
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The Nature of Religion: What are Religious Beliefs About? | |
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Nonrealism | |
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Realism | |
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Wittgenstein | |
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Conclusion | |
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Religious Experience: What Does it Mean to Encounter the Divine? | |
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Types of Religious Experience | |
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Religious Experience as Feeling | |
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Religious Experience as Perceptual Experience | |
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Religious Experience as Interpretation Based on Religious Beliefs | |
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Can Religious Experience Justify Religious Belief? | |
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The Principle of Credulity | |
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Diversity of Religious Experiences | |
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Is There a Common Core to Religious Experience? | |
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Faith and Reason: How are They Related? | |
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Can Reason Be Trusted? | |
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Strong Rationalism | |
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Fideism | |
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Critical Rationalism | |
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The Divine Attributes: What is God Like? | |
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Perfect and Worthy of Worship | |
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Necessary and Self-Existent | |
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Personal and Free Creator | |
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All-Powerful, All-Knowing, and Perfectly Good | |
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God Eternal-Timeless or Everlasting | |
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Theistic Arguments: Is There Evidence for God's Existence? | |
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Theistic Arguments as Proofs | |
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The Ontological Argument | |
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Contemporary Versions of the Ontological Argument | |
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The Cosmological Argument | |
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The Kalam Cosmological Argument | |
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An Atheistic Argument from the Big Bang | |
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The Atemporal Cosmological Argument | |
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The Analogical Teleological Argument | |
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The Anthropic Teleological Argument | |
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The Intelligent Design Teleological Argument | |
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The Moral Argument | |
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Cumulative Case Arguments and God | |
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The God of Religion and of Philosophy | |
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Knowing God Without Arguments: Does Theism Need a Basis? | |
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Evidentialism | |
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Critique of Evidentialism | |
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Plantinga on Properly Basic Beliefs | |
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Alston on Perceiving God | |
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Plantinga on Warrant and Knowledge | |
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The Problem of Evil: The Case Against God's Existence | |
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The Logical Problem of Evil | |
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The Evidential Problem of Evil | |
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Defense and Theodicy | |
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Themes in Theodicy | |
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Some Important Global Theodicies | |
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Horrendous Evils and the Assessment of Theism | |
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Divine Action: How Does God Relate to the World? | |
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What Kind of Power Does God Exercise? | |
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What Kind of Freedom Has God Given? | |
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Does God Know What Would Have Happened? | |
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Does God Know the Actual Future? | |
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What If the Future Is Truly Open? | |
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Miracles: Does God Intervene in Earthly Affairs? | |
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Miracles Defined | |
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Miracles as Historical Events | |
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Miracles as Unexplainable Events | |
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Miracles as Acts of God | |
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Practical Considerations | |
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Life After Death: Are There Reasons for Hope? | |
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Terminology | |
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Concepts of Life After Death | |
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Personal Identity and the Soul | |
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Immortality of the Soul | |
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Criticism of the Soul-Concept | |
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The Self as a Psychophysical Unity | |
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Re-creation and Spatio-temporal Continuity | |
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A Posteriori Arguments for Life After Death | |
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A Priori Arguments for Life After Death | |
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Prospects | |
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Religious Language: How Can We Speak Meaningfully of God? | |
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Human Language and the Infinite | |
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The Classical Theory of Analogy | |
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Verification and Falsification Issues | |
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The Functions of Religious Discourse | |
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Religious Language as Symbolic | |
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Feminism and Masculine God-Talk | |
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Can Talk of God Be Literal? | |
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Religion and Science: Compatible or Incompatible? | |
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Do Religion and Science Conflict? | |
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Are Religion and Science Independent? | |
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Is Dialogue Possible? | |
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Attempts at Integration | |
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Insights | |
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Religious Diversity: How Can We Understand Differences Among Religions? | |
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Religious Diversity | |
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Exclusivism | |
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Critique of Exlusivism | |
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Exclusivism and Justified Belief | |
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Pluralism | |
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Critique of Pluralism | |
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Pluralism as a Plurality of Salvations | |
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Inclusivism | |
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Critique of Inclusivism | |
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Criteria for Assessing Religions | |
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Religious Ethics: The Relation of God to Morality | |
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The Source of Religious Ethical Truth | |
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The Authoritative Basis of Religious Ethical Truth | |
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The Acquisition of Religiously Based Ethical Truth | |
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The Significance of Religiously Based Ethical Truth | |
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Current Issues | |
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The Continuing Quest: God and the Human Venture | |
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The Intellectual Process | |
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Philosophical Activity and Religious Faith | |
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Where Do We Go from Here? | |
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Name Index | |
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Subject Index | |