“I have found God to be the most balanced, readable, and enjoyable synthesis of philosophy of religion materials available today. My students insist it is the book they will not re-sell at the close of the semester.” —Dr. Virginia Osborn, Belmont University
Including over one hundred fifty pages of new material, a new introduction, enhanced headnotes, and an updated list of further readings, this significantly expanded anthology provides a rich selection of traditional and modern works that reflect the many ways in which philosophers have attempted to address the question of the existence of God.
Reviews:
“I have found God to be the most balanced, readable, and enjoyable synthesis of philosophy of religion materials available today. My students insist it is the book they will not re-sell at the close of the semester.” —Dr. Virginia Osborn, Belmont University
Contents:
Preface for Instructors: The Idea Behind the Book.
Introduction for Students.
AUGUSTINE, "God Above Reason," from On Free Choice of the Will
ANSELM AND GAUNILO, “The Ontological Argument,” from Monologion and Proslogion, with the Replies of Gaunilo and Anselm
AQUINAS, “The Five Ways,” from Summa Theologica
PALEY, “The Teleological Argument,” from Natural Theology
CRAIG, “Philosophical and Scientific Pointers to Creatio ex Nihilo”
MAVRODES, “Religion and the Queerness of Morality”
ADAMS, “Moral Arguments for Theistic Belief”
RUSSELL, “Critique of the Traditional Arguments,” from Why I Am not a Christian
HUME, “Anthropomorphism,” from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
SMART, “The Existence of God”
SCHICK, “The Big Bang Argument for the Existence of God”
MAVRODES, “Some Puzzles Concerning Omnipotence”
KRETZMANN, “Omniscience and Immutability”
BOETHIUS, “Omniscience and Human Freedom,” from Consolation of Philosophy
RACHELS, “God and Human Attitudes”
AUGUSTINE, “Concerning the Nature of Good,” from Concerning the Nature of Good
HUME, “Evil and a Finite God”
MACKIE, “Evil and Omnipotence”
HICK, “The Vale of Soul-Making,” from Evil and the God of Love
NIETZSCHE, “Religion and Power,” from On the Genealogy of Morals, The Gay Science, and Beyond Good and Evil
FREUD, “The Psychological Origins of Religion,” from Totem and Taboo, The Future of an Illusion, and Civilization and Its Discontents
JAMES, “The Reality of the Unseen,” from The Varieties of Religious Experience
OTTO, “The Idea of the Holy,” from The Idea of the Holy
ELIADE, “The Phenomenology of Religion,” from The Myth of the Eternal Return
SARTRE, “Atheistic Existentialism,” from Existentialism and Human Emotions
CAMUS, “Absurd,” from The Myth of Sisyphus
HARTSHORNE, “Reconceiving God,” from Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes
FLEW, HARE, AND MITCHELL, “Theology and Falsification”
PLANTINGA, “Is Belief in God Properly Basic?”
PASCAL, “The Wager,” from Pensées
JAMES, “The Will to Believe,” from Pragmatism and Other Essays
BERGER, “Signals of Transcendence,” from A Rumor of Angels