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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface to the Instructor | |
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| A Note on the Treatment of Non-English Names and Terms | |
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| What is Philosophy of Religion? | |
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| Characterizing Ultimate Sacred Reality | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Divine Attributes: What is God Like? | |
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| The Female Nature of God: A Problem in Contemporary Religious Life | |
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| God as Creative-Responsive Love | |
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| The Vedic-Upanisadic Concept of Brahman (The Highest God) | |
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| Emptiness in Mahayana Buddhism | |
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| Reality and Divinity in Chinese Philosophy | |
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| How the Supreme Nature Exists through Itself: Anselm of Canterbury | |
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| Of the Unicity of God: Avicenna (Ibn Sina) | |
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| The Omnipotence of God | |
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| Thinking and Speaking about God by Analogy | |
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| Everything Has Its Self in Brahman | |
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| An Analysis of Nirv?&ndot;a | |
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| Non-Polar and Yet Supreme Polarity! | |
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| The Role and Limits of Reason in Supporting Belief in an Ultimate Sacred Reality | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Cosmological Argument for God�s Existence | |
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| al-Gh?z?li and the Kal?m Cosmological Argument | |
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| Cosmological Arguments | |
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| How the Existence of God Explains the World and Its Order | |
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| Are We the Outcome of Chance or Design? | |
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| The Message of the M?&ndot;&udot;d?kya Upani⋅ad: A Phenomenological Analysis of Mind and Consciousness | |
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| Antirationalism in Zhuangzi and Kierkegaard | |
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| Truly There is a God: Anselm of Canterbury | |
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| Whether God Exists? | |
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| Evidence of Design | |
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| On the Argument from Design | |
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| Truth is Subjectivity | |
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| The Rationality of Religious Belief in the Absence of Evidence | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Will to Believe | |
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| Is Belief in God Properly Basic? | |
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| Plantinga on Belief in God as Properly Basic | |
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| Religious Experience Justifies Religious Belief | |
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| Do Mystics See God? | |
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| Mystical Knowledge: Knowledge by Identity | |
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| The Difference between Union and Rapture: Teresa of �vila | |
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| Divine Intoxication | |
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| Manifesting Suchness | |
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| Evil and the Rationality of Religious Belief | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Evil and Omnipotence | |
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| The Logical Problem of Evil | |
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| An Irenaean Theodicy | |
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| The Evidential Problem of Evil | |
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| The Concept of God after Auschwitz: A Jewish Voice | |
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| ?a&mdot;kara�s Theodicy | |
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| Karma, Rebirth, and the Problem of Evil | |
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| Evil as a Privation of Good: Augustine of Hippo | |
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| The Argument from Evil | |
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| Brahman, Creation, and Evil | |
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| Life after Death, Human Nature, and Personal Identity | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Naturalistic Case for Extinction | |
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| Brain Science and the Soul | |
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| The Resurrection of the Dead | |
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| The Idea of Reincarnation | |
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| Not-Self, Kamma, and Rebirth | |
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| Nondualistic Problems of Immortality | |
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| The Immortality of the Soul | |
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| The Conscious Subject Persists in the State of Release | |
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| What is Reborn is Neither the Same Nor Another: Anonymous | |
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| Making Sense of Conflicting Religious Truth Claims | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Religious Understanding of Religion: A Model of the Relationship between Traditions | |
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| In Defence of a Contented Religious Exclusivism | |
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| John Hick and the Question of Truth in Religion | |
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| A Process Approach to Pluralism | |
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| A Dynamic Unity in Religious Pluralism: A Proposal from the Buddhist Point of View | |
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| Questioning the Foundations of Inquiry and Mapping New Territory | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Anti-Realist Faith | |
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| The Religious Necessity of Realism | |
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| Postmodernism and Religious Reflection | |
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| The Ends of Metaphysics | |
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| Feminism and Analytic Philosophy of Religion | |
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| Heidegger and Buddhism | |
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| Li and the A-theistic Religiousness of Classical Confucianism | |
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| Glossary | |
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