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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 | |