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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 | |