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Philosophy of Religion An Anthology

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ISBN-10: 0495095044

ISBN-13: 9780495095040

Edition: 5th 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Louis P. Pojman, Michael Rea, Michael Rea

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The most comprehensive text in its field, this anthology includes 70 articles in 10 areas of philosophy of religion: Traditional Arguments for the Existence of God; The Argument from Religious Experience; The Problem of Evil; The Attributes of God; Miracles, Death and Immortality; Faith and Reason; Science, Religion, and Evolution; Religious Pluralism; and Religion and Ethics. The articles are arranged in a coherent framework, with the presentation of each area progressing from the classical to the contemporary and treated in a dialectic (pro and con) fashion that exposes students to both sides of each issue.
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Book details

List price: $187.95
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 3/22/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.980

Louis P. Pojman (1935-2005) was Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at the United States Military Academy and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary/Columbia University. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Copenhagen and a Rockefeller Fellow at Hamburg University. He received his D.Phil. in Philosophy from Oxford University in 1997.His first position was at the University of Notre Dame, after which he taught at the University of Texas at Dallas. Later, at the University of Mississippi, he served for three years as Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. In 1995, he became Professor of Philosophy…    

Preface
Introduction
Traditional Arguments for the Existence of God
The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God
The Ontological Argument
A Critique of the Ontological Argument
The Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God
The Five Ways
The Argument from Contingency
A Critique of the Cosmological Argument
An Examination of the Cosmological Argument
The Kalam Cosmological Argument
A Critique of the Kalam Cosmological Argument
The Teleological Argument for the Existence of God
The Watch and the Watchmaker
A Critique of the Design Argument
The Argument from Design
A Scientific Argument for the Existence of God
The Argument from Religious Experience
Selections of Mystical Experiences
Mysticism
The Future of an Illusion
Broad The Argument from Religious Experience
A Critique of the Argument from Religious Experience
Religious Experience and Religious Belief
The Problem Of Evil
The Argument from Evil
Theodicy: A Defense of Theism
Rebellion
Evil and Soul-Making
A Critique of Hick''s Theodicy
Evil and Omnipotence
The Free Will Defense
The Inductive Argument from Evil Against the Existence of God
Evolution and the Problem of Evil
The Attributes of God
Time and Eternity
Temporal Eternity
The God Beyond Time
God''s Omniscience and Human Freedom
Divine Foreknowledge and Human Free Will
God''s Foreknowledge and Human Free Will Are Incompatible
God''s Foreknowledge and Human Free Will Are Compatible
God''s Omnipotence
Is God''s Power Limited? George Mavrodes: Some Puzzles Concerning Omnipotence
The Logic of Omnipotence
Miracles
Against Miracles
Of ''Of Miracles.''
Miracles and Testimony
Evidence for the Resurrection
Hyperspace and Christianity
Death and Immortality
Plato: Immortality of the Soul
The Finality of Death
Immortality and Resurrection
Personal Identity and Life After Death
A Hindu Theory of Life, Death, and Reincarnation
Faith And Reason
Pragmatic Justification of Religious Belief
The Wager
The Ethics of Belief
The Will to Believe
Rationality and Justified Religious Belief
Rational Theistic Belief Without Proof
Religious Belief Without Evidence
A Critique of Plantinga''s Religious Epistemology
Faith, Hope, and Doubt
Science, Religion, and Evolution
The Relationship Between Science and Religion
Science Versus Religion
Non-Overlapping Magesteria
Faith and Science
Evolution, Naturalism, and Intelligent Design
Signs of Intelligence: A Primer on the Detection of Intelligent Design
Molecular Machines: Experimental Support for the Design Inference
Born-Again Creationism
Natural Providence (Or Design Trouble). Alvin Plantinga: An Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism
Commonsense Naturalism
Religious Pluralism
Religious Pluralism and Ultimate Reality
A Defense of Religious Exclusivism
Hick''s Religious Pluralism and "Reformed Epistemology"? A Middle Ground
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