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Readings in Philosophy of Religion Ancient to Contemporary

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ISBN-10: 1405180919

ISBN-13: 9781405180917

Edition: 2009

Authors: Linda Zagzebski, Timothy D. Miller

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Comprised of readings from ancient to modern times, this volume offers a comprehensive introduction to the central questions of the philosophy of religion. * Provides a history of the philosophy of religion, from antiquity up to the twentieth century * Each section is preceded by extensive commentary written by the editors, followed by readings that are arranged chronologically * Designed to be accessible to both undergraduate and graduate students
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List price: $75.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/23/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 672
Size: 6.80" wide x 9.70" long x 1.42" tall
Weight: 2.728
Language: English

William M. Tsutsui is Professor of History at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters (2004), Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan (1998), and Banking Policy in Japan: American Efforts at Reform During the Occupation (1988).

Timothy S. Miller is Professor of History at Salisbury University. He is the author of The Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire and The Orphans of Byzantium.

Acknowledgments
General Introduction
The Philosophical Treatment of Religion: Introduction
The Nature of the Gods, Book 1: Cicero
Classical Arguments for Theism: Introduction
The Design Argument
The Fifth Way
The Watch and the Watchmaker
Critique of the Design Argument
The Teleological Argument
The Argument from the Appearance of Design
Plato's Cosmological Argument
The Eternality of Motion and the Unmoved Mover
The Kal-+m Cosmological Argument
The Existence and Oneness of God
The First Three Ways
The Argument from Dependent Beings
Critique of the Cosmological Argument
Anselm's Ontological Argument
Descartes's Ontological Argument
Kant's Critique of the Three Traditional Proofs
The Ontological Argument
Other Approaches to Religious Belief: Introduction
The Numinous
Mysticism and Religious Experience
The Existence of God and the Existence of Homer: Rethinking Theism and Revelatory Claims
Truth is Subjectivity
Kierkegaard's Arguments against Objective Reasoning in Religion
Lectures on Religious Belief
Origin of Religion
The Essence of Religion in General
The Future of an Illusion
Who or What is God?: Introduction
On Being
The Final Cause
The Divine Darkness: Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
Perfect Being
On the Trinity
Omnipotence
Omniscience and Immutability
Atemporal Personhood
Fate, Freedom, and Foreknowledge: Introduction
The Sea Battle Argument
On Fate and On Divination
God's Timeless Knowing
Ockham on God's Foreknowledge, and Future Contingents
Middle Knowledge
Religion and Morality: Introduction
God is the Measure of All Things
The Moral Argument for the Existence of God
The Euthyphro Dilemma
Questions on the Books of the Sentences
Lectures on Romans
Divine Commands
The Virtues of God and the Foundations of Ethics
Selections from Treatise on Law
The Problem of Evil: Introduction
God is Not the Author of Evil
On the Anger of God
That Which Is, Is Good
On the Free Choice of the Will
Formal Summary of the Theodicy
Myth of the Goddess Pallas