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| Preface | |
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| The Varieties of Religious Experience | |
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| Introduction: Philosophy and Religion | |
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| Mystical Experience | |
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| Mysticism | |
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| Intuitive Ways of Knowing | |
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| Personal Experience of God | |
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| Critique of Mysticism | |
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| The Core of Religion | |
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| Varieties of Religious Understanding | |
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| The Pluralistic Hypothesis | |
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| Retrospective: Religious Experience | |
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| Additional Sources | |
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| Religion and Life | |
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| Introduction: Religion and Life | |
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| Life's Goal Is to Obey God's Will | |
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| Moral Obligation | |
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| Life's Goal Is to Achieve Greatness | |
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| The Joyful Wisdom | |
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| Life Is Not Meaningful Without God | |
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| A Confession | |
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| Life Is Meaningful Without God | |
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| Ethics Without Religion | |
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| Retrospective: Religion and Life | |
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| Additional Sources | |
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| Religion and Human Destiny | |
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| Introduction: Religion and Death | |
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| The Immortality of the Soul | |
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| Phaedo | |
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| The Finality of Death | |
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| Letter to Menoeceus | |
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| The Hope for Resurrection | |
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| The Death of Death | |
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| Death in Buddhism | |
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| The Doctrine of No-Soul: Anatta | |
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| Retrospective: Religion and Death | |
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| Additional Sources | |
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| Arguments for God's Existence | |
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| Introduction: The Existence of God | |
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| The Ontological Argument | |
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| The Most Perfect Being | |
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| The Cosmological Arguments | |
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| The Kalam Cosmological Argument | |
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| The Design Argument | |
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| Natural Theology | |
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| The Moral Argument | |
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| God as a Postulate of Practical Reason | |
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| Retrospective: The Existence of God | |
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| Additional Sources | |
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| The Problem of Evil | |
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| Introduction: God and Evil | |
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| Evil and the Power of God | |
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| Divine Omnipotence | |
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| Theodicy in Process Thought | |
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| God in Process | |
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| Karma and Evil | |
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| Karma in Hindu Thought | |
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| The "Vale of Soul-Making" Theodicy | |
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| Evil and the God of Love | |
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| Retrospective: God and Evil | |
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| Additional Sources | |
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| Faith and Reason | |
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| Introduction: Opinion, Belief, and Knowledge | |
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| Belief and Falsification | |
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| The Falsification Debate | |
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| Will and Belief | |
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| The Will to Believe | |
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| No Rational Basis for Faith | |
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| Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion | |
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| The Leap of Faith | |
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| Objective and Subjective Reflection | |
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| Retrospective: Faith and Reason | |
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| Additional Sources | |
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| Religion and Current Issues | |
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| Introduction: Religion and Society | |
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| Religion and Government | |
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| A Letter Concerning Toleration | |
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| Religion and Women | |
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| The Female Nature of God | |
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| Religion and World Origins | |
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| Creative Evolution | |
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| Religion and Human Origins | |
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| Life's Dominion | |
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| Retrospective: Religion and Current Issues | |
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| Additional Sources | |
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| Biographical Summaries | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |