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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What Is Religion? | |
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| The Divine Attributes | |
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| Omnipotence | |
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| Some Puzzles Concerning Omnipotence | |
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| The Logic of Omnipotence | |
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| Timelessness | |
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| God Eternal | |
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| God Everlasting | |
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| Omniscience | |
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| Divine Omniscience and Voluntary Action | |
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| Power Over the Past | |
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| Does God Know the Future? | |
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| Supreme Goodness | |
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| God and Morality | |
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| A Modified Divine Command Theory | |
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| God's Virtues | |
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| Perfection | |
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| Divine Perfection and Freedom | |
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| God and Forgiveness | |
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| Arguments for God's Existence | |
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| The Ontological Argument | |
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| The Ontological Argument | |
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| The Ontological Argument: A Critique | |
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| The Ontological Argument: An Assessment | |
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| The Cosmological Argument | |
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| The Five Ways | |
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| The Cosmological Argument: A Critique | |
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| The Cosmological Argument | |
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| A Necessary Being? | |
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| The Kalam Cosmological Argument | |
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| The Teleological Argument | |
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| The Evidence of Design | |
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| Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Parts II, V-VII) | |
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| The Argument from Design | |
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| Darwin and Design | |
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| The Moral Argument | |
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| Conscience | |
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| Newman on Conscience: A Critique | |
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| The Problem of Evil | |
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| God and Evil | |
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| Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (X-XI) | |
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| The Logical Problem of Evil | |
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| The Problem of Evil | |
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| The Problem of Goodness | |
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| The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism | |
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| Christianity and Horrendous Evils | |
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| The Problem of Evil and the Desires of the Heart | |
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| Evil Forces | |
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| Satan | |
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| The Cosmic Dualism of Zoroastrianism | |
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| Karma, Rebirth, and Evil | |
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| Karma and Rebirth | |
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| Karma, Rebirth, and the Problem of Evil | |
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| Avenues to the Divine | |
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| Prayer | |
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| Petitionary Prayer | |
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| The Concept of Worship | |
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| Miracles | |
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| On Miracles | |
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| Cod and Miracles | |
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| Mysticism | |
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| Mysticism | |
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| Perceiving Cod | |
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| Perceiving Cod: A Critique | |
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| Buddhist Meditation | |
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| Describing the Divine | |
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| When Words Fail | |
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| Beyond Words | |
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| Hinduism and Cod | |
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| The Tao | |
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| Twelve Zen Stories | |
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| Zen Buddhism | |
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| Negation | |
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| Negative Attributes | |
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| Positive Attributes | |
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| Analogy | |
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| The Use of Analogy | |
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| The Inadequacy of Analogy | |
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| Metaphor | |
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| Experience and Metaphor | |
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| Metaphor Without Meaning | |
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| Belief without Proof | |
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| Belief as Strategy | |
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| The Wager | |
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| Pascal's Wager: A Critique | |
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| Pascal's Wager: An Assessment | |
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| The Ethics of Belief | |
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| The Will to Believe | |
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| The Will to Believe: A Critique | |
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| Belief as Certainty | |
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| Belief Without Argument | |
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| Belief Without Argument: A Critique | |
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| Belief as Commitment | |
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| Faith | |
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| Faith and Reason | |
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| The Significance of Belief | |
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| Theology and Falsification | |
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| The Hiddenness of Cod | |
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| Beyond Death | |
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| Heaven and Hell | |
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| Two Christian Concepts of Heaven | |
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| Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Cod | |
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| Islam and the Last Judgment | |
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| The Problem of Hell | |
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| Whom Does God Consign to Hell? | |
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| Divine Justice | |
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| Religious Luck | |
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| Resurrection | |
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| Resurrection | |
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| Life After Death | |
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| Do We Need Immortality? | |
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| Reincarnation | |
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| Hinduism and the Self | |
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| The Buddhist Concept of Self | |
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| The Jain Path | |
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| Nirvana | |
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| What the Buddha Taught | |
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| The Cessation of Suffering | |
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| Religious Pluralism | |
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| The Challenge of Religious Diversity | |
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| Rejecting Religions | |
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| Religious Pluralism and Salvation | |
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| A Defense of Religious Exclusivism | |
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| The Problem of Religious Diversity | |
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| On Religious Diversity | |
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| Non-Supernatural Religion | |
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| Religion Reconsidered | |
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| Confucius: The Secular as Sacred | |
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| A Discussion of Heaven | |
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| Reason in Religion | |
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| Judaism Without Supernaturalism | |
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| Honest to God | |
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| Religion-Within Reason | |
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| Index | |