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Acknowledgments | |
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Permissions | |
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General Introduction | |
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Religious diversity | |
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Introduction to Part One | |
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Religious Pluralism and the Pluralistic Hypothesis | |
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Truth and the Diversity of Religions | |
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A Defense of Religious Exclusivism | |
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Religious Relativism | |
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Interreligious Harmony | |
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The nature and attributes of God/Ultimate Reality | |
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Introduction to Part Two | |
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Theistic Perspectives of Ultimate Reality | |
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God's Nature and Knowledge | |
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Divine Simplicity, Negative Theology, and God-Talk | |
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Providence, Foreknowledge, and Free Will | |
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Omnipotence | |
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God as Infinite, Personal, and Good | |
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God Incarnate and Triune | |
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The Openness of God | |
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Process Theology - God in and for Nature | |
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Non-Theistic Perspectives of Ultimate Reality | |
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Brahman Is All | |
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The Tao | |
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Nirvana Is Ultimate Reality | |
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Arguments for and against the existence of God | |
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Introduction to Part Three | |
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The Cosmological Argument | |
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The Classical Cosmological Argument | |
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The Kalam Cosmological Argument | |
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A Critique of Cosmological Arguments | |
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A Logical Argument Against a Divine Cause | |
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The Teleological Argument | |
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The Classical Design Argument | |
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A Recent Intelligent Design Argument | |
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A Recent Fine-Tuning Argument | |
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A Critique of the Design Argument | |
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The Ontological Argument | |
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The Classical Ontological Argument | |
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Gaunilo's Response to Anselm | |
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A Critique of the Ontological Argument | |
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A Recent Ontological Argument | |
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Non-Traditional Arguments | |
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The Moral Argum Ent | |
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Religion as Projection | |
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The Noological Argument | |
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Faith, reason, and evidence | |
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Introduction to Part Four | |
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The Ethics of Belief | |
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The Will to Believe | |
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Belief in God as Properly Basic | |
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The Wager | |
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Science, religion, and miracles | |
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Introduction to Part Five | |
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The Unreasonability of Belief in Miracles | |
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A Case for Miracles | |
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Naturalism and Science | |
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Science and Religion | |
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The self and the human condition | |
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Introouction to Part Six | |
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The Fallen Self | |
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Human Nature Is Naturally Good | |
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The Noble Human Being | |
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The Empty Self | |
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Karma and the Self in Zen Buddhism | |
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Religious experience | |
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Introduction to Part Seven | |
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Mysticism | |
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Experiencing God | |
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Satori/Enlightenment | |
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Religious Ideas as Wish Fulfillments | |
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The Evidential Value of Religious Experience | |
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The problem of evil | |
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Introduction to Part Eight | |
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The Problem of Evil | |
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A Soul-Making Theodicy | |
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A Free Will Defense | |
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Horrendous Evil | |
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Suffering - A Buddhist Perspective | |
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Death and the afterlife | |
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Introduction to Part Nine | |
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Immortality of the Soul | |
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Resurrection of the Body | |
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Death, Dying, and the Hiddenness of God | |
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Why We Need Immortality | |
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Rebirth and the Self | |
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Should the Atheist Fear Death? | |
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Recent trends | |
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Introduction to Part Ten | |
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Feminism in Philosophy of Religion | |
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Religion and a Global Ethic | |
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Religion and the Environment | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |