The philosophy of religion, once considered a deviation from an otherwise analytically rigorous discipline, has flourished over the past two decades. This collection of new essays by twelve distinguished philosophers of religion explores three broad themes: religious attitudes of belief, acceptance, and love; human and divine freedom; and the rationality of religious belief.
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The essays typically engage in rigorous analysis and argument, seek to advance current debates another step, and often have implications beyond philosophy of religion in such areas as epistemology, agency theory, moral theory, philosophy of mind, and the history of philosophy. * Christian Scholar's Review *
Chapter 1 Preface
Part 2 Part I: Faith
Chapter 3 Belief, Acceptance, and Religious Faith
Chapter 4 The Divine Command Ethics in Kierkegaard's Works of Love
Part 5 Part II: Freedom
Chapter 6 Free Agency and Materialism
Chapter 7 Libertarian Freedom and the Principle of Alternative Possibilities
Chapter 8 Real Freedom
Chapter 9 Jonathan Edwards, William Rowe, and the Necessity of Creation
Part 10 Part III: Rationality
Chapter 11 "It is Wrong, Everywhere, Always, and for Anyone, to Believe Anything upon Insufficient Evidence"
Chapter 12 Theism and the Mind-Body Problem
Chapter 13 Miracles as Violations of Laws of Nature
Chapter 14 Aquinas's Disguised Cosmological Argument
Chapter 15 On Plantinga's 1967 and 1983 Parity Defenses
Chapter 16 Notes
Chapter 17 Index
Jeff Jordan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Delaware and the editor of Gambling on God: Essays on Pascal's Wager (Rowman & Littlefield, 1994). Daniel Howard-Snyder is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Seattle Pacific University.
