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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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Text Sources and Credits | |